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Zurich AirportIATA code ZRH

Zurich Airport (ZRH/LSZH) is the primary air passenger gateway serving Zurich, Switzerland in Europe. The airfield connects travelers with essential regional transit routes and operating carrier options.

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Serves: Zurich, Switzerland
Codes: ZRH · LSZH; IATA · ICAO
Time zone: Europe/Zurich
Region: Europe

Airport record, updated 4 Sept 2026OurAirports, 5 Oct 2026Wikidata, 5 Oct 2026Travelpayouts fares, 5 Oct 2026NASA POWER climate, 2016–2025Terminals and transport checked 5 Oct 2026Where this comes from

Zurich Airport (ZRH/LSZH) is the primary air passenger gateway serving Zurich, Switzerland in Europe. Operating on Europe/Zurich local time at coordinates 47.450°, 8.560°, the airfield functions as an active commercial transit hub for scheduled regional and international flights. Travelers navigating Zurich Airport (ZRH) are encouraged to confirm terminal layouts, ground transport connections into Zurich, and flight schedules with their operating carrier prior to travel.

Zurich Airport details

Airport record · 4 Sept 2026

IATA code: ZRH
ICAO code: LSZH
City: Zurich
Country: Switzerland
Region: Europe
Time zone: Europe/Zurich
Coordinates: 47.458°, 8.548°; From OurAirports
Official website: flughafen-zuerich.ch (opens in a new tab); From Wikidata

Codes, region and time zone come from the Originfacts airport record (last updated 4 Sept 2026). Fields marked otherwise come from the dataset named on them. None are verified by hand against Zurich Airport’s own pages.

ZRH airport facts

OurAirports · Wikidata

Size class: Large airport; From OurAirports (5 Oct 2026); OurAirports’ own classification
Elevation: 432 m (1,417 ft); From OurAirports (5 Oct 2026)
Opened: 1953; Per Wikidata (opens in a new tab) (retrieved 5 Oct 2026) — date of official opening
Operator: Flughafen Zürich AG; Per Wikidata (opens in a new tab) (retrieved 5 Oct 2026)
Passengers, 2025: 32.6 million; Per Wikidata (opens in a new tab) (retrieved 5 Oct 2026), citing newsroom.flughafen-zuerich.ch (opens in a new tab)
Named after: Zurich; Per Wikidata (opens in a new tab) (retrieved 5 Oct 2026)
Nearest airport with scheduled flights: Bodensee Airport Friedrichshafen FDH · 76 km; OurAirports scheduled-service flag; straight-line distance calculated

Runways at ZRH

OurAirports · 5 Oct 2026

Source: OurAirports (opens in a new tab) runways data (public domain), retrieved 5 Oct 2026. Not an aeronautical source — not for navigation.

4 open runways, 3 lit. Longest 16/34: 3,700 m, concrete.

Runways at ZRH: length, width, surface and lighting
Runway	Length	Width	Surface	Lighting
16/34	3,700 m12,139 ft	60 m	concrete	Lit
14/32	3,300 m10,827 ft	60 m	concrete	Lit
10/28	2,500 m8,202 ft	60 m	concrete	Lit
01H/19H	308 m1,010 ft	28 m	grass	Not listed as lit

Airlines and destinations from ZRH

Travelpayouts · 5 Oct 2026

Source: Travelpayouts fare data, 5 Oct 2026 — destinations where travellers found a nonstop fare from ZRH in the days before that date. Not a complete or live schedule.

Nonstop fares from ZRH to 126 destinations in 65 countries, on 39 airlines.

Airlines named on the fares

LXSWISS55 destinations
WKEdelweiss Air13 destinations
U2easyJet7 destinations
2LHelvetic Airways6 destinations
BTairBaltic3 destinations
DECondor3 destinations
ACAir Canada2 destinations
ETEthiopian Airlines2 destinations
EWEurowings2 destinations
XQSunExpress2 destinations
UAUnited Airlines2 destinations
VYVueling2 destinations
A3Aegean Airlines1 destination
EIAer Lingus1 destination
SMAir Cairo1 destination
AFAir France1 destination
AIAir India1 destination
4OAir Montenegro1 destination
JUAir Serbia1 destination
OSAustrian Airlines1 destination
SNBrussels Airlines1 destination
CSChair Airlines1 destination
MUChina Eastern1 destination
XCCorendon Airlines1 destination
OUCroatia Airlines1 destination
MSEgyptair1 destination
EYEtihad Airways1 destination
AYFinnair1 destination
IBIberia1 destination
FIIcelandair1 destination
KMKM Malta Airlines1 destination
KEKorean Air1 destination
LOLOT Polish1 destination
LHLufthansa1 destination
DYNorwegian Air Shuttle1 destination
WYOman Air1 destination
QRQatar Airways1 destination
ATRoyal Air Maroc1 destination
TPTAP Air Portugal1 destination

The airline on a fare can be the seller of a codeshare flown by a partner. Linked names are matched to Originfacts airline pages by code and name; others are shown as the fare data names them.

Destinations by country

Spain (13): Alicante, Arrecife, Barcelona, Bilbao, Ibiza, Las Palmas, Madrid, Malaga, Menorca, Palma, Puerto del Rosario, Tenerife, Valencia
Italy (11): Bari, Bologna, Brindisi, Cagliari, Florence, Milan, Naples, Olbia, Palermo, Rome, Venice
Germany (9): Berlin, Cologne, Dresden, Dusseldorf, Frankfurt, Hamburg, Hannover, Munich, Stuttgart
United States (6): Chicago, Los Angeles, Miami, New York, San Francisco, Washington
Greece (4): Athens, Kos, Rhodes, Thessaloniki
Poland (4): Gdansk, Krakow, Warsaw, Wroclaw
Canada (3): Montreal, Toronto, Vancouver
Croatia (3): Dubrovnik, Split, Zagreb
Egypt (3): Cairo, Hurghada, Sharm el Sheikh
France (3): Marseille, Nice, Paris
Portugal (3): Faro, Lisbon, Porto
Turkiye (3): Antalya, Bodrum, Izmir
United Kingdom (3): Birmingham, London, Manchester
Costa Rica (2): Liberia, San Jose
Finland (2): Helsinki, Rovaniemi
Morocco (2): Casablanca, Marrakech
Tanzania (2): Kilimanjaro, Zanzibar
Thailand (2): Bangkok, Phuket
United Arab Emirates (2): Abu Dhabi, Dubai
Albania (1): Tirana
Austria (1): Vienna
Belgium (1): Brussels
Bosnia and Herzegovina (1): Sarajevo
Brazil (1): Sao Paulo
Cape Verde (1): Praia
China (1): Shanghai
Colombia (1): Bogota
Cyprus (1): Larnaca
Czech Republic (1): Prague
Denmark (1): Copenhagen
Dominican Republic (1): Punta Cana
Estonia (1): Tallinn
Ethiopia (1): Addis Ababa
Georgia (1): Tbilisi
Hong Kong (1): Hong Kong
Hungary (1): Budapest
Iceland (1): Reykjavik
India (1): New Delhi
Ireland (1): Dublin
Japan (1): Tokyo
Kosovo (1): Pristina
Latvia (1): Riga
Lithuania (1): Vilnius
Luxembourg (1): Luxembourg
Maldives (1): Male
Malta (1): Malta
Mauritius (1): Mauritius
Mexico (1): Cancun
Montenegro (1): Podgorica
Netherlands (1): Amsterdam
North Macedonia (1): Skopje
Norway (1): Oslo
Oman (1): Muscat
Qatar (1): Doha
Romania (1): Bucharest
Serbia (1): Belgrade
Seychelles (1): Mahe
Singapore (1): Singapore
Slovenia (1): Ljubljana
South Africa (1): Cape Town
South Korea (1): Seoul
Sri Lanka (1): Colombo
Sweden (1): Stockholm
Switzerland (1): Geneva
Tunisia (1): Djerba

Check schedules with the airline or Zurich Airport before you book.

Routes from ZRH

No route records yet

Originfacts does not track any routes from ZRH yet, so no route records are listed here. Destinations with nonstop fares are listed under Airlines and destinations above. Check current schedules with the airlines or the airport’s own site.

Airlines with a hub at ZRH

Wikidata · 5 Oct 2026

Per Wikidata (opens in a new tab) (retrieved 5 Oct 2026): airlines whose “airline hub” property names ZRH, with no end date and not recorded as dissolved. Community-edited; hubs change.

Where ZRH is

Calculated

9.3 km north

Zurich Airport lies 9.3 km north of Zurich city centre in a straight line. Road distance is longer; transport options are not yet verified (see terminals and transport below).

Calculated from the airport coordinates (OurAirports) and the Wikidata (opens in a new tab) city-centre point.

Terminals, transport and parking at ZRH

Checked 5 Oct 2026

Terminals

Zurich Airport describes itself as a one-terminal airport since the Airside Center opened. Passengers check in in halls called Check-in 1, 2 and 3, and the airport’s security check building, with 26 check lines over four floors, links check-in with the Airside Center.^[1]

Dock E is reached from the Airside Center within a few minutes by the Skymetro aerial tramway. Dock B handles Schengen and non-Schengen flights flexibly.^[1],[2]

Getting to and from the city

According to the airport, SBB trains depart for Zurich’s main station every 10 minutes and the journey takes 15 minutes. The airport’s page carries no fare or date for this, so check SBB’s timetable before you travel.^[3]

Many airport hotels offer a free shuttle, with the buses found along the inner curbside lanes of Arrival 1. The paid CHECK-IN all-ways shuttle to city hotels departs every 30 minutes between 6.30 a.m. and 11 p.m.^[4]

Parking

Without booking you can use P1 (directly connected to Terminal 1), P2, P3, P4 and P6 on site. P3 XXL, P60 and P65 are available with online booking only; P60 is a 15-minute walk from the terminal and P65 has a free shuttle bus taking 5–7 minutes. The airport’s page, read on 5 October 2026, advertises online parking from CHF 94.– per week.^[5]

All car parks and fields other than P38, P4, P60 and P65 have a 2-metre height restriction.^[5]

Picking up passengers at the Arrival 1 and 2 kerbside is always charged; for more than two entries within two hours an additional fee of CHF 50.- plus CHF 1.-/min applies.^[6]

Reduced-mobility assistance

Special assistance requests can only be submitted through your airline or travel agency, not by email to the airport. The airport asks you to report to a pick-up point two hours before departure, and there are pick-up points at every Check-in.^[7]

For assistance to the aircraft by train, report to the pick-up point in Check-in 3 directly above the airport railway station (callbox); the bus station is directly above Check-in 3.^[7]

ZRH Comfort

ZRH Comfort costs CHF 39.– per person on the airport’s page and gives access to the Priority Lane at security plus a non-alcoholic drink and snack from selected partners. It can be booked from 90 days before the flight date up to the time of departure.^[8]

Checked against Zurich Airport’s and the transport operators’ own pages on 5 Oct 2026. Fares, timetables and facilities change; confirm on the linked source before you travel.

Climate at ZRH, month by month

NASA POWER · 2016–2025

Source: NASA POWER (opens in a new tab) daily values for 2016–2025 at 47.45°, 8.56° (MERRA-2 reanalysis grid, about 50 km cells), averaged by Originfacts. Modelled, not airport weather-station readings.

Warmest: July (average high 24°C). Coolest: January (3°C high, -3°C low). Wettest: June (154 mm); driest: February (80 mm).

Average daily high and low temperature and average monthly precipitation at ZRH, 2016–2025
Month	High	Low	Rain
Jan	3°C	-3°C	118 mm
Feb	7°C	-1°C	80 mm
Mar	10°C	1°C	89 mm
Apr	14°C	4°C	91 mm
May	17°C	8°C	153 mm
Jun	23°C	13°C	154 mm
Jul	24°C	15°C	153 mm
Aug	23°C	15°C	151 mm
Sep	20°C	11°C	118 mm
Oct	15°C	7°C	105 mm
Nov	8°C	2°C	98 mm
Dec	4°C	-1°C	110 mm

Airports near Zurich

Calculated

Straight-line distances calculated from each airport’s coordinates in the Originfacts airport records. Road distances are longer.

Zurich Airport: common questions

Where is Zurich Airport?

Zurich Airport serves Zurich, Switzerland. Its coordinates in OurAirports are 47.458°, 8.548°.

What are the airport codes for Zurich Airport?

The IATA code is ZRH and the ICAO code is LSZH.

What time zone is ZRH in?

Zurich Airport is in the Europe/Zurich time zone.

What is the official website of Zurich Airport?

The airport’s official website is flughafen-zuerich.ch. For questions about a booking, contact the operating airline.

How many runways does Zurich Airport have?

OurAirports lists 4 open runways at ZRH: 16/34 (3,700 m (12,139 ft), concrete); 14/32 (3,300 m (10,827 ft), concrete); 10/28 (2,500 m (8,202 ft), concrete); 01H/19H (308 m (1,010 ft), grass).

Where can you fly nonstop from ZRH?

Travelpayouts fare data retrieved 5 Oct 2026 showed nonstop fares from ZRH to 126 destinations in 65 countries, the most in Spain (13), Italy (11) and Germany (9). That reflects fares travellers found, not a complete or live schedule.

When did Zurich Airport open?

Wikidata gives 1953 as its official opening date.

How many passengers use Zurich Airport?

Wikidata records 32.6 million passengers for 2025, the latest year it holds.

Who operates Zurich Airport?

Per Wikidata, ZRH is operated by Flughafen Zürich AG.

Which airlines have a hub at ZRH?

Wikidata lists ZRH as a hub of Helvetic Airways, Swiss International Air Lines and Zimex Aviation.

How long does the train from Zurich Airport to Zurich main station take?

The airport says SBB trains depart for Zurich’s main station every 10 minutes and the journey takes 15 minutes.

Can I request wheelchair assistance directly from Zurich Airport?

No. Special assistance requests can only be submitted through your airline or travel agency.

What is the 2-metre rule for Zurich Airport car parks?

All car parks other than P38, P4, P60 and P65 have a height restriction of 2 metres.

What does ZRH Comfort cost?

The airport’s page lists CHF 39.– per person for the Priority Lane at security plus a non-alcoholic drink and snack.

Sources

Terminals, transport and parking were checked by hand against the numbered sources below on 5 Oct 2026. Every other section comes from the dataset listed, with its date where the dataset has one.

WhatSourceDate
Codes, location, time zoneOriginfacts airport record4 Sept 2026
Official websiteWikidata record (official website property) (opens in a new tab)5 Oct 2026
Coordinates, runways, type, elevationOurAirports (opens in a new tab) — public domain5 Oct 2026
Opening, operator, passengers, hubsWikidata item Q15114 (opens in a new tab) — CC05 Oct 2026
Nonstop destinations, airlines on faresTravelpayouts Data API (Aviasales fare cache) — fares found, not a complete or live schedule5 Oct 2026
ClimateNASA POWER (opens in a new tab) daily data (MERRA-2 reanalysis), averaged by Originfacts2016–2025
Distance to city centreCalculated from airport coordinates and the Wikidata (opens in a new tab) city-centre point—
Nearby airportsCalculated from airport coordinates—
Terminals and transportChecked by hand: numbered sources below5 Oct 2026

[1]Airport History – Flughafen Zuerich — Flughafen Zürich AG (Zurich Airport)
[2]Dock B – Flughafen Zuerich — Flughafen Zürich AG (Zurich Airport)
[3]Train, tram & bus – Flughafen Zuerich — Flughafen Zürich AG (Zurich Airport)
[4]Hotel buses and special buses – Flughafen Zuerich — Flughafen Zürich AG (Zurich Airport)
[5]Parking at the airport – your options – Flughafen Zuerich — Flughafen Zürich AG (Zurich Airport)
[6]Picking up passengers – Flughafen Zuerich — Flughafen Zürich AG (Zurich Airport)
[7]Travelling with reduced mobility – Flughafen Zuerich — Flughafen Zürich AG (Zurich Airport)
[8]ZRH Comfort – Your upgrade before departure – Flughafen Zuerich — Flughafen Zürich AG (Zurich Airport)

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