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Map: OpenStreetMap contributors, captured 8 Oct 2026. North is up and the drawing is simplified. Each runway is labelled at its ends.
Location
London, United Kingdom
ICAO code
EGLL
IATA code
LHR
Elevation
83 ft
Longest runway
12,799 ft (09L/27R)
Runways
2
Size class
Large
Passengers, 2025
84.5 million, number 7 in the world
Position
51.4708, -0.4599
About EGLL
London Heathrow Airport (LHR) is a large airport in London, United Kingdom, with the ICAO code EGLL. It is number 7 on the ACI World list of the busiest airports, with 84.5 million passengers in 2025. Its two runways are 09L/27R and 09R/27L. The longer one, 09L/27R, is 12,799 ft. All of them have hard surfaces. The OpenStreetMap layout shows 148 gates, 417 taxiway segments, 39 aprons and 14 terminal outlines. In the route snapshot of 14 Oct 2026, 186 airlines have 7,942 routes through EGLL. Its most frequent links are Paris (CDG), Madrid (MAD) and Doha (DOH).
Runways
Runways, longest first
Runway
Length
Width
Surface
Lights
09L / 27R
12,799 ft
164 ft
Hard
Lit
09R / 27L
12,001 ft
164 ft
Hard
Lit
Runway idents and sizes from OurAirports. The runway headings in the source do not always match the idents, so only the idents are shown.
Scheduled routes
Published route data from the snapshot of 14 Oct 2026. These are standing schedules, not live flights, and they can be out of date. Counts are routes in that snapshot.
Sources: airport and runway data from OurAirports (public domain). Map data from OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL). Routes from Virtual Radar Server standing data (CC0), snapshot of 14 Oct 2026.
