GWT
Westerland Sylt Airport
Westerland Sylt Airport (IATA: GWT, ICAO: EDXW) is a medium airport in Sylt, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. It opened in 1918. It has 2 runways; the longest is 2,120 m (6,955 ft). In 2021 it handled 102 thousand passengers.
Timeline
1 event · 1918–19181918
OpenedWesterland Sylt Airport opens.
From WikidataEvery airfield, 1903–2026
Runways & airfield
Schematic · N · © OpenStreetMap14/32142° / 322° · LIT
LENGTH2,120 m6,955 ftWIDTH45 m148 ftSURFACEConcrete
06/24058° / 238°
LENGTH1,696 m5,564 ftWIDTH45 m148 ftSURFACEConcrete
Passengers per year
2006–202183K
110K
127K
147K
178K
193K
156K
154K
150K
138K
130K
102K
060708091011121314151621
Routes
9 destinations · 4 countriesSeasonal8
KSFKassel AirportGermany · MHS Aviation395 km245 miBERBerlin Brandenburg AirportGermany · Avanti Air443 km275 miFRAFrankfurt Main AirportGermany · Lufthansa544 km338 miLUXLuxembourg-Findel International AirportLuxembourg · Luxair605 km376 miSTRStuttgart AirportGermany · Eurowings695 km432 miMUCMunich AirportGermany · Lufthansa767 km477 miZRHZürich AirportSwitzerland · Swiss International Air Lines829 km515 miVIEVienna International AirportAustria · Austrian Airlines946 km588 miMost destinationsEurowings 2Lufthansa 2MHS Aviation 1Avanti Air 1Luxair 1Swiss International Air Lines 1
Straight lines are great circles; rings mark true distance from GWT. Dashed: seasonal or charter. From the Wikipedia article “Sylt Airport” (revision of 7 Jul 2026), CC BY-SA 4.0.
Records & rankings
Ranked among 48,011 open airports · world · region · countryScale: 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 channelsAFISLangen Information125.100
RDRBREMEN RADAR136.225
TWRSYLT Tower / Turm119.750
ATISSylt ATIS118.400
INFOSylt Radio119.750