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title: "PRG — Václav Havel Airport Prague Airport, Prague · Orbit"
description: "Václav Havel Airport Prague (PRG/LKPR) serves Prague, Czech Republic. Opened 1937, named after Václav Havel, 17.8 million passengers in 2025, 12 km from Prague."
url: https://orbitflights.app/airports/prg
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Prague · Czech Republic · Europe

# PRG — Václav Havel Airport Prague

Václav Havel Airport Prague serves Prague, Czech Republic, 12 km from the city centre, and sits at 50.1°N, 14.3°E. This site carries 1 route touching it, with the great circle distance for each.

**IATA**
PRG
the code on your bag tag

**ICAO**
LKPR
used by air traffic control

**Opened**
1937
per Wikidata

**Passengers**
17.8M
in 2025

## History & name

Václav Havel Airport Prague opened in 1937, and its names link it to Prague, Ruzyně and Václav Havel (1936–2011), the Czech statesman, playwright and former dissident who was the last president of Czechoslovakia. Operated by Letiště Praha, it lies 12 km from Prague and handled 17.8 million passengers in 2025.

Named after **Václav Havel** — Czech statesman, playwright, and former dissident, the last president of Czechoslovakia and the first president of the Czech Republic (1936–2011)

Read more: [Wikipedia ↗](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V%C3%A1clav%5FHavel%5FAirport%5FPrague) · [Wikidata ↗](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q99172)

## At a glance

**Full name**
Václav Havel Airport Prague

**Serves**
Prague, Czech Republic

**City centre**
12 km from Prague

**Opened**
1937

**Operator**
Letiště Praha

**Passengers**
17.8 million in 2025

**Runways**
2 runways, longest 3,715 m

**Elevation**
1,247 ft (380 m)

**Map**
[Open in Google Maps ↗](https://www.google.com/maps/search/?api=1&query=50.10090,14.25990)

**Website**
[prg.aero ↗](http://www.prg.aero)

## Where it sits

50.1°N, 14.3°E puts PRG in the northern hemisphere, 5,571 km from the equator and 4,437 km from the North pole.

Of the 661 airports on this site it is the **68th** most northerly, which makes it the 594th most southerly.

## Straight through the middle

Straight down through the centre of the Earth comes out at 50.1°S, 165.7°W. The nearest airport on this site to that point is Wellington (WLG) in New Zealand, still 1,790 km away — most of the planet's antipodes are ocean.

## What’s near it

The closest other airport on this site is **Leipzig/Halle** (LEJ), 205 km away in a straight line. Nothing else on this site is within 100 km.

## Distances from PRG

Great circle distance and an estimated time in the air.

| To                                                   |     | Distance | Estimated |
| ---------------------------------------------------- | --- | -------- | --------- |
| [London](https://orbitflights.app/routes/lhr-to-prg) | LHR | 1,044 km | 1h 48m    |

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

## 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 PRG to anywhere →](https://orbitflights.app/distance)

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