Oulu Airport

ICAO EFOU64.9301°N 25.3546°E14 m / 47 ftLarge airport

Oulu Airport (IATA: OUL, ICAO: EFOU) is a large airport in Oulu / Oulunsalo, North Ostrobothnia Region, Finland. It opened on 30 Jun 1953. It has one runway, 2,501 m (8,205 ft) long, asphalt. It is operated by Finavia. In 2025 it handled 548 thousand passengers.

Timeline

1 event · 1953–1953

30 JUN 1953

OpenedOulu Airport opens.

From WikidataEvery airfield, 1903–2026

Runways & airfield

Schematic · N · © OpenStreetMap

12/30121° / 301° · LIT

LENGTH2,501 m8,205 ftWIDTH60 m197 ftSURFACEAsphalt

Passengers per year

2014–2025

960K

983K

1.0M

928K

1.1M

315K

303K

636K

557K

583K

548K

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Routes

6 destinations · 4 countries

Year-round4

TMPTampere-Pirkkala AirportFinland · Finnair401 km249 mi HELHelsinki Vantaa AirportFinland · Finnair513 km319 mi RIXRiga International AirportLatvia · AirBaltic894 km556 mi FRAFrankfurt Main AirportGermany · Discover Airlines1,924 km1,196 mi

Seasonal charter2

RHORhodes International Airport "Diagoras"Greece · Aegean Airlines3,177 km1,974 mi CHQChania International AirportGreece · Aegean Airlines3,270 km2,032 mi

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

Airlines

4 airlines · destinations from OUL

Passenger4

A3Aegean Airlinesseasonal charter · 2 AYFinnair2 BTAirBaltic1 4YDiscover Airlines1

Former hub of Oulun Tilauslento.

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

Records & rankings

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

Passengers548K (2025)1 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 64KMEDIAN · 64KMORE · 103MMORE · 103M#1,076of 3,974 · #248 Europe · #3 FI Longest runway2,501 m8,205 ft46 m · SHORT150 ft · SHORTMEDIAN · 975 mMEDIAN · 3,200 ftLONG · 5,300 mLONG · 17,388 ft=2,305of 29,858 · =376 Europe · #10 FI Elevation14 m47 ft-386 m · LOW-1,266 ft · LOWMEDIAN · 240 mMEDIAN · 787 ftHIGH · 4,938 mHIGH · 16,200 ft=39,466of 43,403 · =5,291 Europe · #77 FI AgeOpened 19532026 · NEWEST2026 · NEWESTMEDIAN · 1976MEDIAN · 1976OLDEST · 1902OLDEST · 1902=3,935of 15,079 · =792 Europe · #22 FI Runways11 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 1MEDIAN · 1MORE · 8MORE · 8=4,364of 29,978 · =646 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

2 channels

ATISATIS135.450

TWRTWR124.400