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title: "HEL — Helsinki Vantaa Airport, Helsinki · Orbit"
description: "Helsinki Vantaa Airport (HEL/EFHK) serves Helsinki, Finland. Opened 1952, 16.3 million passengers in 2024, 17 km from Helsinki."
url: https://orbitflights.app/airports/hel
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Helsinki · Finland · Europe

# HEL — Helsinki Vantaa

Helsinki Vantaa Airport serves Helsinki, Finland, 17 km from the city centre, and sits at 60.3°N, 25.0°E. This site carries 4 routes touching it, with the great circle distance for each.

**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 ↗](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helsinki%5FAirport) · [Wikidata ↗](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q215327)

## 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)

**Map**
[Open in Google Maps ↗](https://www.google.com/maps/search/?api=1&query=60.31840,24.96330)

**Website**
[finavia.fi ↗](https://www.finavia.fi/en/airports/helsinki-airport)

## 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.

## Distances from HEL

Great circle distance and an estimated time in the air. The longest is Tokyo, at 7,829 km.

| To                                                      |     | Distance | Estimated |
| ------------------------------------------------------- | --- | -------- | --------- |
| [Stockholm](https://orbitflights.app/routes/arn-to-hel) | ARN | 398 km   | 1h 00m    |
| [London](https://orbitflights.app/routes/lhr-to-hel)    | LHR | 1,848 km | 2h 48m    |
| [Seoul](https://orbitflights.app/routes/hel-to-icn)     | ICN | 7,032 km | 9h 14m    |
| [Tokyo](https://orbitflights.app/routes/hel-to-nrt)     | NRT | 7,829 km | 10h 14m   |

[Distance from HEL to any airport →](https://orbitflights.app/distance?from=HEL&to=NRT) [Map a trip from HEL →](https://orbitflights.app/tools/flight-route-map?r=HEL-NRT)

## Where these facts come from

The profile is looked up, not written from memory: type, runways, elevation and the official website from [OurAirports](https://ourairports.com/data/) (public domain); opening year, namesake, operator and passenger count from [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/) (CC0); the city centre from [GeoNames](https://www.geonames.org/) (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.

[Measure HEL to anywhere →](https://orbitflights.app/distance)

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