Dresden Airport

ICAO EDDC51.1341°N 13.7678°E230 m / 755 ftLarge airport

Dresden Airport (IATA: DRS, ICAO: EDDC) is a large airport in Dresden, Saxony, Germany. It opened on 11 Jul 1935. It has one runway, 2,850 m (9,350 ft) long, concrete. It is operated by Flughafen Dresden GmbH. In 2025 it handled 882 thousand passengers.

Timeline

1 event · 1935–1935

11 JUL 1935

OpenedDresden Airport opens.

From WikidataEvery airfield, 1903–2026

Runways & airfield

Schematic · N · © OpenStreetMap

04/22041° / 221° · LIT

LENGTH2,850 m9,350 ftWIDTH60 m197 ftSURFACEConcrete

Passengers per year

2014–2025

1.7M

1.8M

1.6M

380K

326K

835K

921K

881K

882K

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Routes

7 destinations · 5 countries

Year-round4

MUCMunich AirportGermany · Lufthansa340 km211 mi FRAFrankfurt Main AirportGermany · Lufthansa388 km241 mi DUSDüsseldorf AirportGermany · Eurowings488 km303 mi BZOBolzano AirportItaly · Sky Alps550 km342 mi

Seasonal3

PMIPalma de Mallorca AirportSpain · Eurowings1,546 km961 mi AYTAntalya International AirportTürkiye · SunExpress2,078 km1,291 mi HRGHurghada International AirportEgypt · Air Cairo3,152 km1,959 mi

Most destinationsLufthansa 2Eurowings 2Sky Alps 1SunExpress 1Air Cairo 1

Straight lines are great circles; rings mark true distance from DRS. Dashed: seasonal or charter. From the Wikipedia article “Dresden Airport” (revision of 19 Sep 2026), CC BY-SA 4.0.

Records & rankings

Ranked among 48,011 open airports · world · region · country

Passengers882K (2025)1 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 64KMEDIAN · 64KMORE · 103MMORE · 103M#878of 3,974 · #210 Europe · #18 DE Longest runway2,850 m9,350 ft46 m · SHORT150 ft · SHORTMEDIAN · 975 mMEDIAN · 3,200 ftLONG · 5,300 mLONG · 17,388 ft=1,550of 29,823 · =244 Europe · #18 DE Elevation230 m755 ft-386 m · LOW-1,266 ft · LOWMEDIAN · 240 mMEDIAN · 787 ftHIGH · 4,938 mHIGH · 16,200 ft=22,238of 43,341 · =1,951 Europe · =429 DE AgeOpened 19352026 · NEWEST2026 · NEWESTMEDIAN · 1976MEDIAN · 1976OLDEST · 1902OLDEST · 1902=593of 15,079 · =336 Europe · =63 DE Runways11 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 1MEDIAN · 1MORE · 8MORE · 8=4,360of 29,943 · =643 Europe · =85 DE

Scale: share of airports ranked below, best on the right · ties shown as = and a band · passengers are each airport’s latest year on record

Radio frequencies

6 channels

AFISLANGEN INFORMATION125.800

APPMUNCHEN RADAR125.625

ATISDresden ATIS118.880

GNDDRESDEN GROUND / ROLLKOKNTROLLE121.980

RMPDRESDEN APRON / VORFELD121.755

TWRDRESDEN TOWER / TURM122.930