Salzburg Airport

ICAO LOWS47.7933°N 13.0043°E430 m / 1,411 ftLarge airport

Salzburg Airport (IATA: SZG, ICAO: LOWS) is a large airport in Salzburg, Austria. It opened in 1926. It has one runway, 2,750 m (9,022 ft) long, concrete. In 2025 it handled 1.8 million passengers.

Timeline

1 event · 1926–1926

1926

OpenedSalzburg Airport opens.

From WikidataEvery airfield, 1903–2026

Runways & airfield

Schematic · N · © OpenStreetMap

15/33157° / 337° · LIT

LENGTH2,750 m9,022 ftWIDTH45 m148 ftSURFACEConcrete

Passengers per year

2014–2025

1.8M

1.7M

1.9M

1.7M

674K

303K

1.2M

1.6M

1.8M

141516171819202122232425

Routes

64 destinations · 26 countries

Year-round15

FRAFrankfurt Main AirportGermany · Lufthansa409 km254 mi BERBerlin Brandenburg AirportGermany · Eurowings509 km316 mi CGNCologne Bonn AirportGermany · Eurowings545 km339 mi DUSDüsseldorf AirportGermany · Eurowings594 km369 mi BEGBelgrade Nikola Tesla AirportSerbia · Air Serbia651 km405 mi HAMHamburg Helmut Schmidt AirportGermany · Eurowings683 km424 mi AMSAmsterdam Airport SchipholNetherlands · Transavia773 km480 mi CPHCopenhagen Kastrup AirportDenmark · Scandinavian Airlines870 km541 mi STNLondon Stansted AirportUnited Kingdom · Ryanair1,021 km634 mi LGWLondon Gatwick AirportUnited Kingdom · British Airways1,022 km635 mi BCNJosep Tarradellas Barcelona-El Prat AirportSpain · Eurowings1,126 km700 mi ISTİstanbul AirportTürkiye · Turkish Airlines1,438 km894 mi ALCAlicante-Elche Miguel Hernández AirportSpain · Ryanair1,523 km946 mi HRGHurghada International AirportEgypt · Eurowings2,917 km1,813 mi DXBDubai International AirportUnited Arab Emirates · flydubai4,459 km2,771 mi

Seasonal54

Seasonal charter1

GOAGenoa Cristoforo Colombo AirportItaly · Eurowings494 km307 mi

Most destinationsEurowings 28easyJet 8TUI Airways 8Jet2.com 7Ryanair 5Transavia 4

Straight lines are great circles; rings mark true distance from SZG. Dashed: seasonal or charter. From the Wikipedia article “Salzburg Airport” (revision of 11 Sep 2026), CC BY-SA 4.0.

Records & rankings

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

Passengers1.8M (2025)1 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 64KMEDIAN · 64KMORE · 103MMORE · 103M#603of 3,974 · #158 Europe · #2 AT Longest runway2,750 m9,022 ft46 m · SHORT150 ft · SHORTMEDIAN · 975 mMEDIAN · 3,200 ftLONG · 5,300 mLONG · 17,388 ft=1,734of 29,823 · =275 Europe · =4 AT Elevation430 m1,411 ft-386 m · LOW-1,266 ft · LOWMEDIAN · 240 mMEDIAN · 787 ftHIGH · 4,938 mHIGH · 16,200 ft=12,747of 43,341 · =926 Europe · #32 AT AgeOpened 19262026 · NEWEST2026 · NEWESTMEDIAN · 1976MEDIAN · 1976OLDEST · 1902OLDEST · 1902=262of 15,079 · =192 Europe · #5 AT Runways11 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 1MEDIAN · 1MORE · 8MORE · 8=4,360of 29,943 · =643 Europe · =14 AT

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

4 channels

APPAPP123.725

ATISATIS125.725

GNDGND121.750

TWRTWR118.100