---
title: "Airports and cities near a point"
description: "The airports (and optionally cities) closest to a place or a coordinate pair, nearest first – for finding an alternative departure airport serving the same trip."
---

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# Airports and cities near a point

`GET /v1/places/nearby`

The airports (and optionally cities) closest to a place or a coordinate pair, nearest first – for finding an alternative departure airport serving the same trip. Pass either place (a code, resolved to coordinates here) or latitude+longitude, never neither.

Operation ID: `getNearbyPlaces`

## Parameters

| Name | In | Type | Required | Constraints | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| `place` | query | string | no | length 1..100 | Place code to search around (e.g. LON, LHR). Resolved to coordinates before the upstream call. |
| `latitude` | query | number | no | -90..90 | Latitude of the point to search around, decimal degrees (-90 to 90). Give latitude and longitude together; use either this pair or place, never both. |
| `longitude` | query | number | no | -180..180 | Longitude of the point to search around, decimal degrees (-180 to 180). Give latitude and longitude together; use either this pair or place, never both. |
| `types` | query | `city` \| `airport` \| `state` \| `district` \| `hotel`[] | no | items 1..*; each of `city`, `airport`, `state`, `district`, `hotel` | Place types to resolve; repeat or comma-separate to mix. |
| `locale` | query | string | no | length 1..35; default `"en"` | Language tag for localized place names (e.g. en, ar). Defaults to en. |
| `pageSize` | query | integer | no | 1..50; default `50` | Max results (1-50). Defaults to 50, the maximum, because this read wants the complete set of nearby places, not a page of it. The upstream returns roughly ten rows and ignores paging, so pageSize can only narrow that set, never reach further. |

## Responses

| Status | Description |
|---|---|
| `200` | Nearby places, nearest first, plus the origin they were measured from. |
| `400` | Neither a place nor a coordinate pair, an out-of-range coordinate, or a place code that resolves to nothing with coordinates. |
| `401` | Missing or invalid bearer token. |
| `429` | Rate limit exceeded; retry after the `Retry-After` seconds. |
| `502` | The upstream places service returned an invalid response. |
| `503` | The places service is temporarily unavailable; retry after the `Retry-After` seconds. |

### `200` body

| Field | Type | Always present | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| `results` | object[] | yes | The nearby places found around the origin. |
| ↳ `id` | number \| string | no | Opaque identifier, unique per place. Do not send it to other endpoints or build wego.com URLs from it: reference a place by code, or by cityCode for a hotels search. |
| ↳ `code` | string | no | IATA-style code (airport/city), when the place has one. |
| ↳ `name` | string | yes | Display name of the place. |
| ↳ `type` | string | yes | Place kind: city, airport, state, district or hotel. |
| ↳ `cityCode` | string | no | Code of the city this place belongs to. |
| ↳ `latitude` | number | no | Latitude in decimal degrees, when known. |
| ↳ `longitude` | number | no | Longitude in decimal degrees, when known. |
| `metadata` | object | yes | Pagination and the resolved origin for this nearby search. |
| ↳ `resultCount` | integer | yes | Number of results on the current page (always <= pageSize). |
| ↳ `totalCandidates` | integer | yes | Rows the upstream returned before this page was sliced. The upstream ignores per_page and answers with roughly ten rows, so pageSize can only narrow this, never reach further. |
| ↳ `hasMore` | boolean | yes | True when pageSize clipped the upstream rows. |
| ↳ `origin` | object | yes | The point the nearby search ran from, and how it was derived. |

## Example

```bash
curl -s -H "Authorization: Bearer $TOKEN" \
  "https://api.wego.com/v1/places/nearby"
```

Source: https://docs.wego.com/api/places/get-nearby-places/index.mdx