Dubai International Airport
Emirate of Dubai
- IATADXB
- ICAOOMDB
- Serves
- Emirate of Dubai
- Operator
- Dubai Airports Company
- Owner
- Not recorded
- Opened
- 30 September 1960
- Elevation
- 62 ft (19 m)
- Runways
- 2 (longest 4,447 m)
- Airlines based here
- Emirates, FedEx Express, flydubai
- Website
- dubaiairports.ae
About the airport
Dubai International Airport (Arabic: مطار دبي الدولي; IATA: DXB, ICAO: OMDB) is the primary international airport serving Dubai, United Arab Emirates, and is the world's busiest airport by international passenger traffic as of 2025. It is also the busiest airport in the Middle East as of 2025, the second-busiest airport in the world by passenger traffic as of 2025, the busiest airport for Airbus A380 and Boeing 777 movements, and the airport with the highest average number of passengers per flight. In 2025, the airport handled over 95.2 million passengers, over 2.2 million tonnes of cargo and registered over 454,000 aircraft movements. The airport is situated in the Al Garhoud district, 4.70 kilometres (2.92 mi) east of the city center of Dubai and spread over an area of 2,900 hectares (7,200 acres) of land. Terminal 3 is the fourth-largest building in the world by floor space and the largest airport terminal in the world. In July 2019, the airport installed the largest solar energy system in the region's airports as part of Dubai's goal to reduce 30 per cent of the city energy consumption by 2030. Emirates' main hub is…
This summary is adapted from Wikipedia and is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike Licence. Passenger and runway figures come from the same source and can lag the latest annual totals, so check the figures the operator publishes for the current total.