Kraków John Paul II International Airport

ICAO EPKK50.0777°N 19.7848°E241 m / 791 ftLarge airport

Kraków John Paul II International Airport (IATA: KRK, ICAO: EPKK) is a large airport in Balice, Lesser Poland Voivodeship, Poland. It opened on 10 Dec 1968. It has one runway, 2,550 m (8,366 ft) long, concrete. In 2025 it handled 13.2 million passengers.

Timeline

1 event · 1968–1968

10 DEC 1968

OpenedKraków John Paul II International Airport opens.

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Runways & airfield

Schematic · N · © OpenStreetMap

07/25078° / 258° · LIT

LENGTH2,550 m8,366 ftWIDTH60 m196 ftSURFACEConcrete

Passengers per year

2014–2025

3.8M

4.2M

5.0M

5.8M

6.8M

8.4M

2.6M

3.1M

7.4M

9.4M

11.1M

13.2M

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Routes

134 destinations · 40 countries

Year-round107

Seasonal37

Seasonal charter9

TIATirana International Airport Mother TeresaAlbania · Buzz963 km598 mi VARVarna AirportBulgaria · Buzz977 km607 mi BOJBurgas AirportBulgaria · Buzz1,023 km636 mi CFUCorfu Ioannis Kapodistrias International AirportGreece · Enter Air1,165 km724 mi ZTHZakynthos International Airport Dionysios SolomosGreece · Buzz1,373 km853 mi HERHeraklion International Nikos Kazantzakis AirportGreece · Enter Air1,696 km1,054 mi AYTAntalya International AirportTürkiye · Smartwings Poland, Enter Air, Buzz1,710 km1,063 mi PMIPalma de Mallorca AirportSpain · Buzz1,775 km1,103 mi RMFMarsa Alam International AirportEgypt · Enter Air3,008 km1,869 mi

Most destinationsRyanair 87Wizz Air 30LOT Polish Airlines 12easyJet 12Jet2.com 9Norwegian Air Shuttle 6

Straight lines are great circles; rings mark true distance from KRK. Dashed: seasonal or charter. From the Wikipedia article “Kraków John Paul II International Airport” (revision of 12 Sep 2026), CC BY-SA 4.0.

Records & rankings

Ranked among 48,011 open airports · world · region · country

Passengers13.2M (2025)1 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 64KMEDIAN · 64KMORE · 103MMORE · 103M#168of 3,974 · #45 Europe · #2 PL Longest runway2,550 m8,366 ft46 m · SHORT150 ft · SHORTMEDIAN · 975 mMEDIAN · 3,200 ftLONG · 5,300 mLONG · 17,388 ft=2,201of 29,823 · =339 Europe · #7 PL Elevation241 m791 ft-386 m · LOW-1,266 ft · LOWMEDIAN · 240 mMEDIAN · 787 ftHIGH · 4,938 mHIGH · 16,200 ft=21,566of 43,341 · =1,858 Europe · =38 PL AgeOpened 19682026 · NEWEST2026 · NEWESTMEDIAN · 1976MEDIAN · 1976OLDEST · 1902OLDEST · 1902=5,888of 15,079 · =1,058 Europe · =31 PL Runways11 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 1MEDIAN · 1MORE · 8MORE · 8=4,360of 29,943 · =643 Europe · =25 PL

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

5 channels

APPKRAKOW APP121.075

ATISATIS126.125

DIRKRAKOW DIRECTOR123.800

TWRKRAKOW TWR123.250

TWRKRAKOW DELIVERY118.100