Stockholm-Arlanda Airport

ICAO ESSA59.6485°N 17.9288°E42 m / 137 ftLarge airport

Stockholm-Arlanda Airport (IATA: ARN, ICAO: ESSA) is a large airport in Stockholm, Stockholms län, Sweden. It opened in 1959. It has 3 runways; the longest is 3,301 m (10,830 ft). It is operated by Swedavia. In 2025 it handled 24.3 million passengers.

Timeline

3 events · 1959–1978

1959

OpenedStockholm-Arlanda Airport opens.

05 JAN 1970

Disaster1970 Spantax Convair crash.5 killed

14 NOV 1978

DisasterQ16655874.No deaths

From WikidataEvery airfield, 1903–2026

Runways & airfield

Schematic · N · © OpenStreetMap

01L/19R010° / 190° · LIT

LENGTH3,301 m10,830 ftWIDTH45 m148 ftSURFACEAsphalt

08/26076° / 256° · LIT

LENGTH2,500 m8,202 ftWIDTH45 m148 ftSURFACEAsphalt

01R/19L010° / 190° · LIT

LENGTH2,500 m8,201 ftWIDTH45 m148 ftSURFACEAsphalt

Passengers per year

2014–2025

22.4M

23.2M

24.7M

26.6M

26.8M

25.6M

6.5M

7.5M

18.4M

21.8M

22.7M

24.3M

141516171819202122232425

Routes

177 destinations · 49 countries

Year-round113

Seasonal71

Seasonal charter13

Cargo6

SDLSundsvall-Härnösand AirportSweden · West Atlantic Sweden321 km199 mi GOTGöteborg Landvetter AirportSweden · West Atlantic Sweden394 km245 mi CGNCologne Bonn AirportGermany · UPS Airlines1,189 km739 mi CDGCharles de Gaulle International AirportFrance · FedEx Express1,540 km957 mi ISTİstanbul AirportTürkiye · Turkish Cargo2,175 km1,351 mi ICNIncheon International AirportSouth Korea · Korean Air Cargo7,403 km4,600 mi

Straight lines are great circles; rings mark true distance from ARN. Dashed: seasonal or charter. Blue: cargo. From the Wikipedia article “Stockholm Arlanda Airport” (revision of 24 Sep 2026), CC BY-SA 4.0.

Airlines

53 airlines · destinations from ARN

Hub airlines4

SKScandinavian Airlines65 DYNorwegian Air Shuttle63 HPAmapola Flyg8 D8Norwegian Air Sweden

Cargo5

PTWest Atlantic Sweden2 FXFedEx Express1 KEKorean Air1 —Turkish Cargo1 5XUPS Airlines1

Former hub of Air Express Sweden, Air Leap, Avia Express, FlyNordic, International Business Air, MCA Airlines, Nextjet, Nordic Airways, Nordic European Airlines, Novair, Skyways, Sunways, Transwede Airways and Braathens.

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

Records & rankings

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

Passengers24.3M (2025)1 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 64KMEDIAN · 64KMORE · 103MMORE · 103M#98of 3,974 · #24 Europe · #1 SE Longest runway3,301 m10,830 ft46 m · SHORT150 ft · SHORTMEDIAN · 975 mMEDIAN · 3,200 ftLONG · 5,300 mLONG · 17,388 ft#711of 29,858 · #97 Europe · #2 SE Elevation42 m137 ft-386 m · LOW-1,266 ft · LOWMEDIAN · 240 mMEDIAN · 787 ftHIGH · 4,938 mHIGH · 16,200 ft=35,691of 43,403 · =4,700 Europe · =100 SE AgeOpened 19592026 · NEWEST2026 · NEWESTMEDIAN · 1976MEDIAN · 1976OLDEST · 1902OLDEST · 1902=4,466of 15,079 · =913 Europe · =35 SE Runways31 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 1MEDIAN · 1MORE · 8MORE · 8=151of 29,978 · =32 Europe · =1 SE

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

6 channels

APPSTOCKHOLM CON123.750

ATISATIS119.000

CLDCLNC DEL121.825

GNDGND121.700

PMSVMET OFFICE122.600

TWRTWR118.500