CPH
Copenhagen Kastrup Airport
Copenhagen Kastrup Airport (IATA: CPH, ICAO: EKCH) is a large airport in Copenhagen, Capital Region, Denmark. It opened on 20 Apr 1925. It has 3 runways; the longest is 3,600 m (11,811 ft). In 2025 it handled 32.4 million passengers.
Timeline
2 events · 1925–197120 APR 1925
OpenedCopenhagen Kastrup Airport opens.
28 AUG 1971
DisasterMalév Airlines Flight 731.31 killed
From WikidataEvery airfield, 1903–2026
Runways & airfield
Schematic · N · © OpenStreetMap04L/22R041° / 221° · LIT
LENGTH3,600 m11,811 ftWIDTH45 m148 ftSURFACEAsphalt
04R/22L041° / 221° · LIT
LENGTH3,300 m10,827 ftWIDTH45 m148 ftSURFACEAsphalt
12/30123° / 303° · LIT
LENGTH2,800 m9,186 ftWIDTH45 m148 ftSURFACEAsphalt
Passengers per year
2014–202525.5M
26.5M
28.9M
29.1M
30.2M
30.1M
7.5M
9.1M
22.1M
26.7M
29.8M
32.4M
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Routes
78 destinations · 36 countriesYear-round51
SGDSønderborg AirportDenmark · Alsie Express195 km121 miKRPMidtjyllands Airport / Air Base KarupDenmark · Alsie Express234 km145 miGDNGdańsk Lech Wałęsa AirportPoland · Ryanair395 km245 miTRFSandefjord Airport, TorpNorway · Widerøe422 km262 miPOZPoznań-Ławica AirportPoland · Ryanair448 km278 miDUSDüsseldorf AirportGermany · Eurowings619 km385 miPRGVáclav Havel Airport PragueCzechia · Eurowings, Ryanair623 km387 miAMSAmsterdam Airport SchipholNetherlands · KLM633 km393 miFRAFrankfurt Main AirportGermany · Lufthansa680 km423 miRIXRiga International AirportLatvia · AirBaltic713 km443 miKUNKaunas International AirportLithuania · Ryanair726 km451 miBRUBrussels AirportBelgium · Brussels Airlines754 km469 miKRKKraków John Paul II International AirportPoland · Ryanair779 km484 miMUCMunich AirportGermany · Lufthansa810 km503 miTLLLennart Meri Tallinn AirportEstonia · AirBaltic839 km521 miVIEVienna International AirportAustria · Ryanair, Ethiopian Airlines, Austrian Airlines877 km545 miSTNLondon Stansted AirportUnited Kingdom · Ryanair914 km568 miMANManchester AirportUnited Kingdom · Ryanair995 km618 miEDIEdinburgh AirportUnited Kingdom · Ryanair1,001 km622 miBHXBirmingham AirportUnited Kingdom · Ryanair1,002 km623 miCDGCharles de Gaulle International AirportFrance · Air France1,004 km624 miBUDBudapest Liszt Ferenc International AirportHungary · Ryanair1,018 km633 miLPLLiverpool John Lennon AirportUnited Kingdom · Ryanair1,031 km641 miORYParis-Orly AirportFrance · Transavia1,037 km644 miTSFTreviso AirportItaly · Ryanair1,109 km689 miBRSBristol AirportUnited Kingdom · Ryanair1,117 km694 miZAGZagreb Franjo Tuđman International AirportCroatia · Croatia Airlines1,124 km698 miBGYIl Caravaggio International AirportItaly · Ryanair1,125 km699 miTRNTurin AirportItaly · Ryanair1,211 km752 miBLQBologna Guglielmo Marconi AirportItaly · Ryanair1,236 km768 miDUBDublin AirportIreland · Ryanair1,241 km771 miTSRTimișoara Traian Vuia International AirportRomania · Animawings1,248 km775 miRMOChişinău International AirportMoldova · FlyOne1,482 km921 miFCORome–Fiumicino Leonardo da Vinci International AirportItaly · Ryanair1,536 km954 miSOFSofia AirportBulgaria · Ryanair1,632 km1,014 miBCNJosep Tarradellas Barcelona-El Prat AirportSpain · Ryanair, Vueling1,769 km1,099 miSAWIstanbul Sabiha Gökçen International AirportTürkiye · Pegasus Airlines2,038 km1,266 miMADAdolfo Suárez Madrid–Barajas AirportSpain · Ryanair2,059 km1,279 miATHAthens Eleftherios Venizelos International AirportGreece · Aegean Airlines2,139 km1,329 miKEFKeflavik International AirportIceland · Icelandair2,144 km1,332 miALCAlicante-Elche Miguel Hernández AirportSpain · Ryanair2,165 km1,345 miOPOFrancisco de Sá Carneiro AirportPortugal · Ryanair2,225 km1,383 miAGPMálaga-Costa del Sol AirportSpain · Ryanair2,472 km1,536 miLISLisbon Humberto Delgado AirportPortugal · TAP Air Portugal2,472 km1,536 miAYTAntalya International AirportTürkiye · Pegasus Airlines2,489 km1,547 miFAOFaro - Gago Coutinho International AirportPortugal · Ryanair2,584 km1,606 miCAICairo International AirportEgypt · EgyptAir3,198 km1,987 miADDAddis Ababa Bole International AirportEthiopia · Ethiopian Airlines5,669 km3,523 miDELIndira Gandhi International AirportIndia · Air India5,840 km3,629 miYYZToronto Pearson International AirportCanada · Air Canada6,269 km3,895 miSGNTan Son Nhat International AirportVietnam · Vietnam Airlines9,265 km5,757 miSeasonal17
WMIWarsaw Modlin AirportPoland · Ryanair629 km391 miEINEindhoven AirportNetherlands · Transavia667 km414 miINNInnsbruck AirportAustria · Austrian Airlines934 km580 miBVABeauvais-Tillé airportFrance · Ryanair987 km613 miBZOBolzano AirportItaly · Sky Alps1,023 km636 miZADZadar AirportCroatia · Ryanair1,295 km805 miPSAPisa International AirportItaly · Ryanair1,337 km831 miSPUSplit Saint Jerome AirportCroatia · Croatia Airlines1,368 km850 miNAPNaples International AirportItaly · Ryanair1,642 km1,020 miOLBOlbia Costa Smeralda AirportItaly · Ryanair1,653 km1,027 miPMIPalma de Mallorca AirportSpain · Ryanair1,931 km1,200 miESBEsenboğa International AirportTürkiye · Pegasus Airlines2,278 km1,415 miBEYBeirut Rafic Hariri International AirportLebanon · Middle East Airlines - Air Liban2,992 km1,859 miTLVBen Gurion International AirportIsrael · Sun d'Or International Airlines3,144 km1,954 miYULMontreal / Pierre Elliott Trudeau International AirportCanada · Air Canada5,802 km3,605 miJFKJohn F. Kennedy International AirportUnited States · Delta Air Lines6,189 km3,846 miMSPMinneapolis–Saint Paul International Airport / Wold–Chamberlain FieldUnited States · Delta Air Lines6,870 km4,269 miCargo11
KRSKristiansand AirportNorway · West Atlantic399 km248 miLGGLiège AirportBelgium · FedEx Express733 km455 miCDGCharles de Gaulle International AirportFrance · FedEx Express1,004 km624 miDWCAl Maktoum International AirportUnited Arab Emirates · Emirates SkyCargo4,840 km3,007 miLCKRickenbacker International AirportUnited States · Emirates SkyCargo6,773 km4,209 miORDChicago O'Hare International AirportUnited States · Emirates SkyCargo6,854 km4,259 miATLHartsfield Jackson Atlanta International AirportUnited States · Emirates SkyCargo7,392 km4,593 miIAHGeorge Bush Intercontinental AirportUnited States · Emirates SkyCargo8,323 km5,172 miLAXLos Angeles International AirportUnited States · Emirates SkyCargo9,029 km5,610 miMEXMexico City Benito Juárez International AirportMexico · Emirates SkyCargo9,513 km5,911 miVCPViracopos International AirportBrazil · LATAM Cargo Brasil10,397 km6,460 miMost destinationsRyanair 33Emirates SkyCargo 7Pegasus Airlines 3Alsie Express 2Eurowings 2Lufthansa 2
Straight lines are great circles; rings mark true distance from CPH. Dashed: seasonal or charter. Blue: cargo. From the Wikipedia article “Copenhagen Airport” (revision of 26 Sep 2026), CC BY-SA 4.0.
Records & rankings
Ranked among 48,011 open airports · world · region · countryScale: 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
16 channelsAPPCopenhagen Approach119.800
ATISKastrup Arrival Information122.750
DELKastrup Clearance Delivery119.900
GNDKastrup Apron121.625
GNDKastrup Apron121.725
TWRKastrup Tower118.100
ATISKastrup Departure Information122.850
TWRKastrup Tower118.575
TWRKastrup Tower118.700
TWRKastrup Tower119.350
APPKastrup Arrival118.450
TWRKastrup Tower121.825
APPKastrup Final120.200
DEPKastrup Departure120.250
DEPKastrup Departure124.975
GNDKastrup Apron121.900