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Kuressaare Airport

ICAO EEKE58.2299°N 22.5095°E4 m / 14 ftMedium airport
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Kuressaare Airport (IATA: URE, ICAO: EEKE) is a medium airport in Kuressaare, Saare County, Estonia. It opened on 6 Mar 1945. It has 2 runways; the longest is 2,000 m (6,561 ft). It is operated by AS Tallinna Lennujaam. In 2022 it handled 39 thousand passengers.

Timeline

1 event · 1945–1945
06 MAR 1945
OpenedKuressaare Airport opens.
From WikidataEvery airfield, 1903–2026

Runways & airfield

Schematic · N · © OpenStreetMap
Kuressaare lennujaam
17/35180° / 360° · LIT
LENGTH2,000 m6,561 ftWIDTH30 m98 ftSURFACEAsphalt
05/23059° / 239°
LENGTH799 m2,621 ftWIDTH30 m98 ftSURFACEAsphalt

Passengers per year

2020–2022
17K
29K
39K
202122

Routes

4 destinations · 2 countries
Most destinationsDiamond Sky 2Nyxair 1Finnair 1

Straight lines are great circles; rings mark true distance from URE. Dashed: seasonal or charter. From the Wikipedia article “Kuressaare Airport” (revision of 26 Aug 2026), CC BY-SA 4.0.

Records & rankings

Ranked among 48,011 open airports · world · region · country
Passengers39K (2022)1 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 64KMEDIAN · 64KMORE · 103MMORE · 103M#2,188of 3,974 · #455 Europe · #2 EELongest runway2,000 m6,561 ft46 m · SHORT150 ft · SHORTMEDIAN · 975 mMEDIAN · 3,200 ftLONG · 5,300 mLONG · 17,388 ft=3,972of 29,823 · =754 Europe · #3 EEElevation4 m14 ft-386 m · LOW-1,266 ft · LOWMEDIAN · 240 mMEDIAN · 787 ftHIGH · 4,938 mHIGH · 16,200 ft=41,950of 43,341 · =5,663 Europe · #23 EEAgeOpened 19452026 · NEWEST2026 · NEWESTMEDIAN · 1976MEDIAN · 1976OLDEST · 1902OLDEST · 1902=2,524of 15,079 · =717 Europe · =3 EERunways21 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 1MEDIAN · 1MORE · 8MORE · 8=713of 29,943 · =134 Europe · #1 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
TWRTWR118.050