Airport Guesser

You get a satellite view of an airport. Name it in 5 attempts or fewer. Pick an airport from the suggestions, then press Guess.

Each wrong guess shows the distance and compass direction from your guess to the answer, and how close you were.

Help along the way

• Zooming in is free: pinch, scroll the mouse wheel over the image, double-tap or double-click, or press + and -. Drag to look around while zoomed in; 0, Esc or the Reset view button return to the start view. You can never zoom out past the start view or in past the real imagery.
• Zoom out: a wider view, once per game, costs 1 attempt (zooming in then starts from that wider view).
• Hints: the country, the first letter of the name, or a third clue: the airport's main airline (this one costs 2 attempts) where it is known with confidence ("a main airline here" where several carriers are close), otherwise its region, its position in the country or its elevation. The other hints cost 1 attempt.
• Guesses, hints and zoom-outs share the same 5 attempts. Zooming in never costs an attempt.

Modes

Daily: one of the world's 50 busiest airports by passengers, the same for everyone each UTC day; every airport comes up once before any repeats. Hard mode: a separate daily drawn from every other airport, with its own results and streak. Practice: endless random airports. Autocomplete searches every airport in all modes.

Sharing

Shared results use colour squares by distance (green correct, yellow under 500 km, orange under 2,000, red under 5,000, black further) with an arrow toward the answer. A light bulb marks a hint and a telescope the zoom-out.

Data sources and licences: see About & credits in the footer.

About

Airport Guesser shows a satellite view of an airport. Name it in 5 attempts or fewer: each wrong guess gives the distance and direction to the answer, and you can spend an attempt on a hint (country, first letter, main airline or region) or a wider view. The Daily airport is the same for everyone.

Created by

Kevin Pahud. Version .

Imagery

Esri World Imagery, served as map tiles. Attribution shown on every image: Tiles © Esri, Source: Esri, Vantor, Earthstar Geographics, and the GIS User Community (Vantor was formerly Maxar). Imagery is used under Esri's terms.

Privacy: the map images are loaded straight from Esri's servers (services.arcgisonline.com and server.arcgisonline.com), so Esri receives each tile request together with your IP address and browser details, as with any website. The app has no accounts, analytics or cookies and keeps your progress only in this browser.

World Imagery and its terms of use · Esri Master Agreement

Airport data

OurAirports (open data). Fields used: name, IATA and ICAO codes, latitude and longitude, country, municipality, region, elevation, airport type, and runway end coordinates (to size the view). Licence: public domain, no warranty. Data retrieved .

ourairports.com/data

Other data

• Country and region names come from the OurAirports countries and regions tables.
• The Daily airport is drawn from the 50 busiest airports worldwide by total passengers: ACI World annual figures for 2025, as compiled on Wikipedia (retrieved ). The source publishes the top 50 only. ACI World
• Wikipedia is used as a link target only: after a round ends, the result card offers a link to the airport's Wikipedia article. The app never contacts Wikipedia itself, and nothing is shown or prefetched before the round ends. Opening the link leaves the app and goes to wikipedia.org (new tab, text under CC BY-SA, see Wikipedia). The article titles were looked up at build time from OurAirports' Wikipedia links, falling back to Wikidata (CC0); airports without a verified article get a Wikipedia search link instead. The main airline of each of the 100 Major hubs was also curated at build time from Wikidata airline-hub relations and the airport's current Wikipedia article (airline names and source links only; no article text is copied or shown).
• The third hint (an airport's main airline, or its region) is decided at build time. For the 100 Major hubs (the Daily list and Practice Major hubs) the main airline is curated: the carrier with the largest passenger share, named "Main airline" where it clearly dominates and "A main airline here" where several are close, with a source recorded for each. Elsewhere the main airline is inferred: Wikidata (CC0) airline-hub relations, checked against OpenFlights (ODbL) route counts and airline records; names only, no logos. Region: OurAirports region names. The route data is from 2014, so a few airlines may be out of date.
• Practice tabs. Major hubs: ranks 1-50 are the Daily list (ACI World 2025); additional major hubs come from Wikidata passenger counts, mixed years 2019-2025 (the tab is 100 busy airports, not a strict ranking). Large: airports where one airline clearly dominates. Mid-size: regional airports with scheduled service. Airports are chosen with a build-time score from Wikipedia and Wikidata fame, OpenFlights (ODbL) routes, imagery quality and runway layout.

Open-source software

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No framework and no build step: the app is plain JavaScript, HTML and CSS.

Fonts and icons

No fonts are bundled; the app uses the system font stack. The app icon is original artwork generated by this project.

Disclaimer

Not affiliated with or endorsed by any airport, airline, or data and imagery provider. Imagery may be outdated.