KDL

Kärdla Airport

ICAO EEKA58.9908°N 22.8307°E6 m / 18 ftMedium airport
On the map

Kärdla Airport (IATA: KDL, ICAO: EEKA) is a medium airport in Kärdla, Hiiu County, Estonia. It opened in 1963. It has one runway, 1,520 m (4,987 ft) long, asphalt. It is operated by AS Tallinna Lennujaam. In 2022 it handled 12 thousand passengers.

Timeline

2 events · 1963–2001
1963
OpenedKärdla Airport opens.
23 NOV 2001
DisasterELK Airways Flight 1007.2 killed
From WikidataEvery airfield, 1903–2026

Runways & airfield

Schematic · N · © OpenStreetMap
14/32147° / 327° · LIT
LENGTH1,520 m4,987 ftWIDTH30 m98 ftSURFACEAsphalt

Passengers per year

2020–2022
9K
11K
12K
202122

Routes

1 destinations · 1 country

Straight lines are great circles; rings mark true distance from KDL. From the Wikipedia article “Kärdla Airport” (revision of 1 Aug 2026), CC BY-SA 4.0.

Records & rankings

Ranked among 48,011 open airports · world · region · country
Passengers12K (2022)1 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 64KMEDIAN · 64KMORE · 103MMORE · 103M#2,616of 3,974 · #536 Europe · #3 EELongest runway1,520 m4,987 ft46 m · SHORT150 ft · SHORTMEDIAN · 975 mMEDIAN · 3,200 ftLONG · 5,300 mLONG · 17,388 ft=6,888of 29,823 · #952 Europe · #6 EEElevation6 m18 ft-386 m · LOW-1,266 ft · LOWMEDIAN · 240 mMEDIAN · 787 ftHIGH · 4,938 mHIGH · 16,200 ft=41,536of 43,341 · =5,596 Europe · #22 EEAgeOpened 19632026 · NEWEST2026 · NEWESTMEDIAN · 1976MEDIAN · 1976OLDEST · 1902OLDEST · 1902=5,069of 15,079 · =988 Europe · #6 EERunways11 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 1MEDIAN · 1MORE · 8MORE · 8=4,360of 29,943 · =643 Europe · =2 EE
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

1 channels
AFISKärdla INFO133.405