Hévíz–Balaton Airport

ICAO LHSM46.6864°N 17.1591°E124 m / 408 ftMedium airport

Hévíz–Balaton Airport (IATA: SOB, ICAO: LHSM) is a medium airport in Sármellék, Zala County, Hungary. It opened in 1951. It has one runway, 2,500 m (8,202 ft) long, concrete. In 2023 it handled 4 thousand passengers.

Timeline

1 event · 1951–1951

1951

OpenedHévíz–Balaton Airport opens.

From WikidataEvery airfield, 1903–2026

Runways & airfield

Schematic · N · © OpenStreetMap

16/34165° / 345° · LIT

LENGTH2,500 m8,202 ftWIDTH60 m197 ftSURFACEConcrete

Passengers per year

2012–2023

19K

25K

29K

16K

18K

13K

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Routes

1 destinations · 1 country

Seasonal charter1

DRSDresden AirportGermany · Sundair553 km344 mi

Straight lines are great circles; rings mark true distance from SOB. Dashed: seasonal or charter. From the Wikipedia article “Hévíz–Balaton Airport” (revision of 8 Jul 2026), CC BY-SA 4.0.

Records & rankings

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

Passengers4K (2023)1 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 64KMEDIAN · 64KMORE · 103MMORE · 103M#2,970of 3,974 · #602 Europe · #5 HU Longest runway2,500 m8,202 ft46 m · SHORT150 ft · SHORTMEDIAN · 975 mMEDIAN · 3,200 ftLONG · 5,300 mLONG · 17,388 ft=2,332of 29,823 · =387 Europe · #3 HU Elevation124 m408 ft-386 m · LOW-1,266 ft · LOWMEDIAN · 240 mMEDIAN · 787 ftHIGH · 4,938 mHIGH · 16,200 ft=28,858of 43,341 · =3,144 Europe · #42 HU AgeOpened 19512026 · NEWEST2026 · NEWESTMEDIAN · 1976MEDIAN · 1976OLDEST · 1902OLDEST · 1902=3,751of 15,079 · =769 Europe · #15 HU Runways11 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 1MEDIAN · 1MORE · 8MORE · 8=4,360of 29,943 · =643 Europe · =9 HU

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

AFISINFO127.600

TWRTWR127.600