Zurich Airport

international airport serving Zurich, Switzerland
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Summary

Zurich Airport is an international airport[1]. It ranks in the top 7% of international airport entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (6,939 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Member of: Association of German Airports[3]
  • Located in the administrative territorial entity: Canton of Zürich[4]
  • Country: Switzerland[5]
  • Physically interacts with: Swiss (2024)[6]
  • Operator: Flughafen Zürich AG[7]
  • Named after: Zurich[8]
  • IATA airport code: ZRH[9]
  • ICAO airport code: LSZH[10]
  • Commons category: Zurich International Airport[11]
  • Scheduled service destination: Narita International Airport[12], İzmir Adnan Menderes Airport[13]
  • Has part(s): Terminal A[14], Terminal B[15], Terminal E[16], Skymetro[17]
  • Runway: 16/34[18], 14/32[19], 10/28[20]
  • Inception: January 1, 1948[21]
  • Interchange station: Zurich Airport railway station[22], Zürich Flughafen, Bahnhof[23]
  • Official website: https://www.flughafen-zuerich.ch/[24]
  • Has facility: changing table[25], post office[26], change machine[27]
  • Place served by transport hub: Zurich[28]
  • Email address: mailto:info@zurich-airport.com[29]
  • Phone number: +41-43-816-22-11[30]
  • Date of official opening: 1953[31]
  • Short name: Zúric[32], Zurich[33], Zürich[34]
  • Elevation above sea level: 1417 feet[35]
  • Patronage: 157,709[36], 1,226,871[37], 4,160,234[38], 7,627,650[39], 9,103,802[40], 12,278,088[41], 14,926,943[42], 16,276,699[43], 15,797,815[44], 18,318,360[45], 17,875,622[46], 19,326,589[47], 18,907,411[48], 20,925,667[49]

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Works and Contributions

Things named for Zurich Airport include it railway station[50], an underground railway station[51], in Switzerland[52].

Why It Matters

Zurich Airport has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[53] It is known by 45 alternative names across languages and contexts.[54]

Entities named for it include it railway station[50], an underground railway station[51], in Switzerland[52].

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

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  7. [10] ↑ . Aeronautical Information Publication. wikidata.org.
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  23. [25] ↑ . aeroport-de-zurich.com. aeroport-de-zurich.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
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  25. [27] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  26. [28] ↑ . store.aci.aero. store.aci.aero. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  27. [29] ↑ . flughafen-zuerich.ch. flughafen-zuerich.ch. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  28. [30] ↑ . flughafen-zuerich.ch. flughafen-zuerich.ch. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  29. [31] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  30. [32] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  31. [33] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  32. [34] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  33. [35] ↑ . Aeronautical Information Publication. wikidata.org.
  34. [36] ↑ . bfs.admin.ch. bfs.admin.ch. Provenance: wikidata.org.
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Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [50] ↑ . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [51] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [52] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [53] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [54] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Edit History

Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 7d ago · Bouzinac · 2026-10-11 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Has part(s) → Terminal A, Terminal B, Terminal E +1
    Sitelink count → 65
    Wikipedia languages → ['af', 'als', 'ar', 'arz', 'ast', 'be', 'bg', 'bn', 'ca', 'ceb', 'ckb', 'commons
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Has part(s): Skymetro, using [[User:Frettie/consistency check add.js]]"
  2. 28d ago · RVA2869 · 2026-09-20 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Located in time zone → —
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/55346|batch #55346]]: redundant value, already present at higher administrative level"
  3. 9w ago · ~2026-44430-93 · 2026-08-13 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Inception → +1948-01-01T00:00:00Z
    "/* wbremoveclaims-remove:1| */ Inception: 1921"
  4. 15w ago · Ytterbyz · 2026-07-03 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Mapcarta id → Zurich_Airport
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Mapcarta id: Zurich_Airport"
  5. 16w ago · HonysTorresArt · 2026-06-25 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Physically interacts with → Swiss (2024)
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Physically interacts with: Swiss (2024)"
  6. 17w ago · KrBot bot · 2026-06-21 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Page banner → Flughafen Zürich - Night - 01 (cropped).jpg
    "/* wbremoveclaims-remove:1| */ Page banner: Flughafen Zürich - Night - 01 (cropped).jpg, дублирующееся значение / duplicate value"
  7. 17w ago · Air fans · 2026-06-17 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Page banner → Flughafen Zürich - Night - 01 (cropped).jpg
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Page banner: Flughafen Zürich - Night - 01 (cropped).jpg"
  8. 23w ago · Ikan · 2026-05-10 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Social media followers → {'amount': '+31362'}, {'amount': '+29389'}, {'amount': '+32854'} +4
    Patronage → {'amount': '+157709'}, {'amount': '+1226871'}, {'amount': '+4160234'} +117
    Inception → —
    Member of → Association of German Airports
    + 29 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Wolfram language entity code: Entity["Airport", "LSZH"], [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/257634|batch #257634]]"
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