Saarbrücken Airport

ICAO EDDR49.2145°N 7.1097°E323 m / 1,058 ftMedium airport

Saarbrücken Airport (IATA: SCN, ICAO: EDDR) is a medium airport in Saarbrücken, Saarland, Germany. It opened in 1964. It has one runway, 2,000 m (6,562 ft) long, asphalt. In 2025 it handled 307 thousand passengers.

Timeline

1 event · 1964–1964

1964

OpenedSaarbrücken Airport opens.

From WikidataEvery airfield, 1903–2026

Runways & airfield

Schematic · N · © OpenStreetMap

08/26087° / 267° · LIT

LENGTH2,000 m6,562 ftWIDTH45 m148 ftSURFACEAsphalt

Passengers per year

2014–2025

351K

433K

399K

373K

333K

343K

46K

150K

300K

310K

339K

307K

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Routes

9 destinations · 5 countries

Year-round4

HAMHamburg Helmut Schmidt AirportGermany · DAT530 km329 mi BERBerlin Brandenburg AirportGermany · DAT569 km354 mi ALCAlicante-Elche Miguel Hernández AirportSpain · Ryanair1,361 km846 mi AYTAntalya International AirportTürkiye · SunExpress2,346 km1,458 mi

Seasonal5

PMIPalma de Mallorca AirportSpain · Eurowings1,129 km702 mi TPSVincenzo Florio Airport Trapani-BirgiItaly · Ryanair1,329 km826 mi SUFLamezia Terme Sant'Eufemia International AirportItaly · Ryanair1,357 km843 mi HERHeraklion International Nikos Kazantzakis AirportGreece · Freebird Airlines Europe2,132 km1,325 mi RHORhodes International Airport "Diagoras"Greece · Aegean Airlines2,213 km1,375 mi

Most destinationsRyanair 3DAT 2SunExpress 1Eurowings 1Freebird Airlines Europe 1Aegean Airlines 1

Straight lines are great circles; rings mark true distance from SCN. Dashed: seasonal or charter. From the Wikipedia article “Saarbrücken Airport” (revision of 2 Sep 2026), CC BY-SA 4.0.

Records & rankings

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

Passengers307K (2025)1 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 64KMEDIAN · 64KMORE · 103MMORE · 103M#1,333of 3,974 · #290 Europe · #22 DE Longest runway2,000 m6,562 ft46 m · SHORT150 ft · SHORTMEDIAN · 975 mMEDIAN · 3,200 ftLONG · 5,300 mLONG · 17,388 ft=3,840of 29,823 · =719 Europe · =55 DE Elevation323 m1,058 ft-386 m · LOW-1,266 ft · LOWMEDIAN · 240 mMEDIAN · 787 ftHIGH · 4,938 mHIGH · 16,200 ft=16,782of 43,341 · =1,352 Europe · =338 DE AgeOpened 19642026 · NEWEST2026 · NEWESTMEDIAN · 1976MEDIAN · 1976OLDEST · 1902OLDEST · 1902=5,263of 15,079 · =1,012 Europe · =194 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

5 channels

AFISLangen Information123.525

ATISSaarbruekcen ATIS125.480

RDRLANGEN RADAR129.675

TWRSaarbruekcen Tower / Turm118.355

GNDSaarbruekcen Ground / Rollkontrolle118.555