KUO

Kuopio Airport

ICAO EFKU63.0071°N 27.7978°E99 m / 323 ftLarge airport
On the map

Kuopio Airport (IATA: KUO, ICAO: EFKU) is a large airport in Kuopio / Siilinjärvi, Northern Savonia Region, Finland. It opened in 1940. It has one runway, 2,800 m (9,186 ft) long, asphalt. It is operated by Finavia. In 2025 it handled 145 thousand passengers.

Timeline

1 event · 1940–1940
1940
OpenedKuopio Airport opens.
From WikidataEvery airfield, 1903–2026

Runways & airfield

Schematic · N · © OpenStreetMap
Kuopion lentoasema
15/33157° / 337° · LIT
LENGTH2,800 m9,186 ftWIDTH60 m197 ftSURFACEAsphalt

Passengers per year

2014–2025
260K
232K
227K
236K
247K
245K
58K
37K
127K
148K
133K
145K
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Routes

5 destinations · 4 countries
Most destinationsFinnair 1Pegasus Airlines 1Freebird Airlines 1Aegean Airlines 1Avion Express 1Sunclass Airlines 1

Straight lines are great circles; rings mark true distance from KUO. Dashed: seasonal or charter. From the Wikipedia article “Kuopio Airport” (revision of 7 Jul 2026), CC BY-SA 4.0.

Records & rankings

Ranked among 48,011 open airports · world · region · country
Passengers145K (2025)1 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 64KMEDIAN · 64KMORE · 103MMORE · 103M#1,673of 3,974 · #357 Europe · #8 FILongest runway2,800 m9,186 ft46 m · SHORT150 ft · SHORTMEDIAN · 975 mMEDIAN · 3,200 ftLONG · 5,300 mLONG · 17,388 ft=1,614of 29,823 · =256 Europe · #3 FIElevation99 m323 ft-386 m · LOW-1,266 ft · LOWMEDIAN · 240 mMEDIAN · 787 ftHIGH · 4,938 mHIGH · 16,200 ft=30,751of 43,341 · =3,606 Europe · #53 FIAgeOpened 19402026 · NEWEST2026 · NEWESTMEDIAN · 1976MEDIAN · 1976OLDEST · 1902OLDEST · 1902=1,114of 15,079 · =538 Europe · =11 FIRunways11 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 1MEDIAN · 1MORE · 8MORE · 8=4,360of 29,943 · =643 Europe · =17 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

3 channels
APPAPP130.600
ATISATIS128.775
TWRTWR120.150