AirportData

For general access to the Wolfram Knowledgebase, use entities of type Airport instead of AirportData.

AirportData[entity,property]

gives the value of the specified property for the airport entity.

AirportData[{entity1,entity2,…},property]

gives a list of property values for the specified airport entities.

AirportData[entity,property,annotation]

gives the specified annotation associated with the given property.

Details

  • AirportData[] gives a list of all airport entities.
  • AirportData["Properties"] gives a list of available properties.
  • AirportData["SampleEntities"] gives a list of sample entities.
  • The specified entity in AirportData can be an Entity, EntityClass, entity canonical name, or list thereof.
  • The specified property can be an EntityProperty, EntityPropertyClass, property canonical name, or list of properties.
  • Properties that do not apply or are not known in a particular case are indicated by Missing[…].
  • Properties include:
  • "AlternateNames"alternate names
    "Cities"city
    "Coordinates"coordinates
    "Countries"country
    "Elevation"elevation
    "FAACode"FAA code
    "IATACode"IATA code
    "ICAOCode"ICAO code
    "Latitude"latitude
    "LongestRunwayLength"length of longest runway
    "LongestRunwayWidth"width of longest runway
    "Longitude"longitude
    "MagneticVariation"magnetic variation
    "Name"name
    "NumberRunways"number of runways
    "OfficialName"official name
    "TimeZone"time zone
    "Uses"uses

Examples

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Basic Examples  (1)

Use for discovery:

Find properties of an airport:

Scope  (1)

Find sample entities:

Extract the canonical names:

Find available properties:

Examine properties of the first sample entity:

Neat Examples  (1)

Plot a map of airports in a city, with tooltips for airport names and FAA codes:

Wolfram Research (2014), AirportData, Wolfram Language function, https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/AirportData.html.

Text

Wolfram Research (2014), AirportData, Wolfram Language function, https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/AirportData.html.

CMS

Wolfram Language. 2014. "AirportData." Wolfram Language & System Documentation Center. Wolfram Research. https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/AirportData.html.

APA

Wolfram Language. (2014). AirportData. Wolfram Language & System Documentation Center. Retrieved from https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/AirportData.html

BibTeX

@misc{reference.wolfram_2025_airportdata, author="Wolfram Research", title="{AirportData}", year="2014", howpublished="\url{https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/AirportData.html}", note=[Accessed: 31-May-2025 ]}

BibLaTeX

@online{reference.wolfram_2025_airportdata, organization={Wolfram Research}, title={AirportData}, year={2014}, url={https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/AirportData.html}, note=[Accessed: 31-May-2025 ]}