Global Airports Database with 84,828 Locations Across 246 Countries

84,828 airports, heliports, and airfields are listed in this dataset. The data includes coordinates and covers locations across 246 countries. It originates from the OurAirports project and is hosted on Kaggle.

Use Cases

• Mapping global airport density based on the 84,828 listed locations.
• Calculating distances between facilities for network analysis based on provided coordinates.
• Analyzing the distribution of airfields versus heliports across different countries.
• Integrating airport locations as reference points for other geospatial datasets.

Strengths

• Covers 84,828 distinct locations, providing a broad scope.
• Includes data from 246 countries, indicating wide geographic coverage.
• Contains coordinates, enabling geospatial analysis.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Last update date is unknown; freshness unverified.
• Row count is known, but specific features per row are undocumented.

Provenance

Source

OurAirports project

Collection Method

Likely aggregated from public sources and community contributions.

Time Range

Temporal coverage is unknown.

Freshness

Last update date is unknown; freshness unverified.

Geography

Global, covering 246 countries.