Girona-Costa Brava Airport

ICAO LEGE41.9046°N 2.7618°E143 m / 468 ftLarge airport

Girona-Costa Brava Airport (IATA: GRO, ICAO: LEGE) is a large airport in Girona, Catalonia, Spain. It opened on 1 Apr 1967. It has one runway, 2,400 m (7,874 ft) long, asphalt. It is operated by Aena. In 2025 it handled 2.2 million passengers.

Timeline

2 events · 1967–1999

01 APR 1967

OpenedGirona-Costa Brava Airport opens.

14 SEP 1999

DisasterBritannia Airways Flight 226A.1 killed

From WikidataEvery airfield, 1903–2026

Runways & airfield

Schematic · N · © OpenStreetMap

01/19014° / 194° · LIT

LENGTH2,400 m7,874 ftWIDTH45 m148 ftSURFACEAsphalt

Passengers per year

2014–2025

2.1M

1.8M

1.6M

1.9M

2.0M

1.9M

165K

309K

1.3M

1.6M

2.0M

2.2M

141516171819202122232425

Routes

47 destinations · 16 countries

Year-round10

PSAPisa International AirportItaly · Ryanair653 km406 mi FKBKarlsruhe Baden-Baden AirportGermany · Ryanair870 km541 mi CRLBrussels South Charleroi AirportBelgium · Ryanair960 km597 mi NUENuremberg AirportGermany · Ryanair1,062 km660 mi NRNWeeze (Niederrhein) AirportGermany · Ryanair1,108 km688 mi STNLondon Stansted AirportUnited Kingdom · Ryanair1,126 km700 mi BEMBeni Mellal AirportMorocco · Ryanair1,326 km824 mi WROCopernicus Wrocław AirportPoland · Ryanair1,483 km921 mi RAKMarrakesh Menara AirportMorocco · Ryanair1,493 km928 mi KRKKraków John Paul II International AirportPoland · Ryanair1,593 km990 mi

Seasonal36

Seasonal charter3

KTWKatowice Wojciech Korfanty International AirportPoland · Enter Air1,571 km976 mi POZPoznań-Ławica AirportPoland · Enter Air1,575 km979 mi GDNGdańsk Lech Wałęsa AirportPoland · Enter Air1,803 km1,120 mi

Most destinationsRyanair 37Jet2.com 8TUI Airways 3Enter Air 3easyJet 2Transavia 2

Straight lines are great circles; rings mark true distance from GRO. Dashed: seasonal or charter. From the Wikipedia article “Girona–Costa Brava Airport” (revision of 26 Sep 2026), CC BY-SA 4.0.

Records & rankings

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

Passengers2.2M (2025)1 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 64KMEDIAN · 64KMORE · 103MMORE · 103M#551of 3,974 · #147 Europe · #17 ES Longest runway2,400 m7,874 ft46 m · SHORT150 ft · SHORTMEDIAN · 975 mMEDIAN · 3,200 ftLONG · 5,300 mLONG · 17,388 ft=2,844of 29,823 · =548 Europe · =35 ES Elevation143 m468 ft-386 m · LOW-1,266 ft · LOWMEDIAN · 240 mMEDIAN · 787 ftHIGH · 4,938 mHIGH · 16,200 ft=27,685of 43,341 · =2,875 Europe · #228 ES AgeOpened 19672026 · NEWEST2026 · NEWESTMEDIAN · 1976MEDIAN · 1976OLDEST · 1902OLDEST · 1902=5,747of 15,079 · =1,049 Europe · =40 ES Runways11 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 1MEDIAN · 1MORE · 8MORE · 8=4,360of 29,943 · =643 Europe · =25 ES

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

APPAPP120.900

GNDGND121.700

TWRTWR118.500