Helsinki Vantaa Airport

ICAO EFHK60.3184°N 24.9633°E55 m / 179 ftLarge airport

Helsinki Vantaa Airport (IATA: HEL, ICAO: EFHK) is a large airport in Helsinki (Vantaa), Uusimaa Region, Finland. It opened in 1952. It has 3 runways; the longest is 3,500 m (11,483 ft). It is operated by Finavia. In 2025 it handled 17.1 million passengers.

Timeline

1 event · 1952–1952

1952

OpenedHelsinki Vantaa Airport opens.

From WikidataEvery airfield, 1903–2026

Runways & airfield

Schematic · N · © OpenStreetMap

04R/22L048° / 228° · LIT

LENGTH3,500 m11,483 ftWIDTH60 m197 ftSURFACEAsphalt

04L/22R048° / 228° · LIT

LENGTH3,060 m10,039 ftWIDTH60 m197 ftSURFACEAsphalt

15/33154° / 334° · LIT

LENGTH2,901 m9,518 ftWIDTH60 m197 ftSURFACEAsphalt

Passengers per year

2014–2025

15.9M

16.4M

17.2M

19.0M

21.0M

22.0M

5.1M

4.3M

13.0M

15.4M

16.4M

17.1M

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Routes

126 destinations · 43 countries

Year-round87

Seasonal39

Seasonal charter2

BOJBurgas AirportBulgaria · Finnair1,981 km1,231 mi AOKKarpathos AirportGreece · Finnair2,773 km1,723 mi

Cargo9

ARNStockholm-Arlanda AirportSweden · Lufthansa Cargo398 km247 mi CPHCopenhagen Kastrup AirportDenmark · Lufthansa Cargo892 km554 mi BUDBudapest Liszt Ferenc International AirportHungary · Qatar Airways1,480 km920 mi CGNCologne Bonn AirportGermany · UPS Airlines1,527 km949 mi FRAFrankfurt Main AirportGermany · Lufthansa Cargo1,539 km956 mi CDGCharles de Gaulle International AirportFrance · FedEx Express1,896 km1,178 mi ISTİstanbul AirportTürkiye · Turkish Cargo2,133 km1,325 mi TLVBen Gurion International AirportIsrael · Challenge Airlines IL3,231 km2,008 mi DOHHamad International AirportQatar · Qatar Airways4,397 km2,732 mi

Straight lines are great circles; rings mark true distance from HEL. Dashed: seasonal or charter. Blue: cargo. From the Wikipedia article “Helsinki Airport” (revision of 3 Sep 2026), CC BY-SA 4.0.

Airlines

29 airlines · destinations from HEL

Former hub of Air Finland, Blue1, Finnaviation, Finncomm Airlines, Flying Finn, Karair, Nordic Global Airlines and Snowbird Airlines.

Airlines and destinations as the Routes list above has them; the figure is how many destinations each flies from HEL. Hubs from Wikidata. All airlines

Records & rankings

Ranked among 48,075 open airports · world · region · country

Passengers17.1M (2025)1 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 64KMEDIAN · 64KMORE · 103MMORE · 103M#133of 3,974 · #35 Europe · #1 FI Longest runway3,500 m11,483 ft46 m · SHORT150 ft · SHORTMEDIAN · 975 mMEDIAN · 3,200 ftLONG · 5,300 mLONG · 17,388 ft=488of 29,858 · =60 Europe · #1 FI Elevation55 m179 ft-386 m · LOW-1,266 ft · LOWMEDIAN · 240 mMEDIAN · 787 ftHIGH · 4,938 mHIGH · 16,200 ft=34,524of 43,403 · =4,453 Europe · #65 FI AgeOpened 19522026 · NEWEST2026 · NEWESTMEDIAN · 1976MEDIAN · 1976OLDEST · 1902OLDEST · 1902=3,844of 15,079 · =774 Europe · #21 FI Runways31 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 1MEDIAN · 1MORE · 8MORE · 8=151of 29,978 · =32 Europe · =2 FI

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

10 channels

APPAPP119.100

ATISHEL VOR114.200

DEL118.125

GNDGND121.800

PMSVPMSV METRO125.100

RMPRMP121.650

TWR22L/04R and 15/33118.600

APP129.850

ATIS135.075

TWR22R/04L118.850