- IATA
- HEL
- the code on your bag tag
- ICAO
- EFHK
- used by air traffic control
- Opened
- 1952
- per Wikidata
- Passengers
- 16.3M
- in 2024
History & name
Helsinki Vantaa Airport takes its name from Helsinki and Vantaa, and opened in 1952. Finavia operates the airport, which is 17 km from Helsinki and handled 16.3 million passengers in 2024 across 3 runways, the longest 3,500 m.
Read more: Wikipedia ↗ · Wikidata ↗
At a glance
- Full name
- Helsinki Vantaa Airport
- Serves
- Helsinki, Finland
- City centre
- 17 km from Helsinki
- Opened
- 1952
- Operator
- Finavia
- Passengers
- 16.3 million in 2024
- Runways
- 3 runways, longest 3,500 m
- Elevation
- 179 ft (55 m)
- Website
- finavia.fi ↗
Where it sits
60.3°N, 25.0°E puts HEL in the northern hemisphere, 6,707 km from the equator and 3,300 km from the North pole.
Of the 661 airports on this site it is the 13th most northerly, which makes it the 649th most southerly.
Straight through the middle
Straight down through the centre of the Earth comes out at 60.3°S, 155.0°W. The nearest airport on this site to that point is Dunedin (DUD) in New Zealand, still 2,767 km away — most of the planet's antipodes are ocean.
What’s near it
The closest other airport on this site is Lennart Meri Tallinn (TLL), 101 km away in a straight line. Nothing else on this site is within 100 km.
Where these facts come from
The profile is looked up, not written from memory: type, runways, elevation and the official website from OurAirports (public domain); opening year, namesake, operator and passenger count from Wikidata (CC0); the city centre from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0). Where a source has nothing, the line is left out. Distances, neighbours and the antipode are computed from the coordinates.
What you won’t find: terminal maps, airline lists, shops or live departures. Orbit is a logbook, not a flight tracker, and a page that guessed at those would be worse than one that leaves them out.
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