This is a list of the 100 busiest airports in the

Nordic countries The Nordic countries (also known as the Nordics or ''Norden''; lit. 'the North') are a geographical and cultural region in Northern Europe and the North Atlantic. It includes the sovereign states of Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sw ...

by passengers per year, aircraft movements per year and freight and mail tonnes per year. The list also includes yearly statistics for the busiest metropolitan airport systems and the busiest air-routes for 2012. This transport-related list is intended to be regularly updated as new statistics become available from the relevant official authorities. __TOC__

Nordic countries

The Nordic countries make up a region in

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and the

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which consists of Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden and their associated territories which include the

Faroe Islands The Faroe Islands ( ), or simply the Faroes ( fo, Føroyar ; da, Færøerne ), are a North Atlantic island group and an autonomous territory of the Kingdom of Denmark. They are located north-northwest of Scotland, and about halfway bet ...

Greenland Greenland ( kl, Kalaallit Nunaat, ; da, Grønland, ) is an island country in North America that is part of the Kingdom of Denmark. It is located between the Arctic and Atlantic oceans, east of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago. Greenland ...

and

Åland Åland ( fi, Ahvenanmaa: ; ; ) is an autonomous and demilitarised region of Finland since 1920 by a decision of the League of Nations. It is the smallest region of Finland by area and population, with a size of 1,580 km2, and a populat ...

. "

Scandinavia Scandinavia; Sámi languages: /. ( ) is a subregion in Northern Europe, with strong historical, cultural, and linguistic ties between its constituent peoples. In English usage, ''Scandinavia'' most commonly refers to Denmark, Norway, and S ...

" is sometimes used as a synonym for the Nordic countries, although within the Nordic countries the terms are considered distinct, especially since Scandinavia is by definition made up of the countries Denmark, Norway and Sweden. The region's five

sovereign state A sovereign state or sovereign country, is a political entity represented by one central government that has supreme legitimate authority over territory. International law defines sovereign states as having a permanent population, defined ter ...

s and three autonomous regions share much common history as well as common traits in their respective societies, such as political systems and the

Nordic model The Nordic model comprises the economic and social policies as well as typical cultural practices common to the Nordic countries (Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden). This includes a comprehensive welfare state and multi-level c ...

. Politically, Nordic countries do not form a separate entity, but they co-operate in the

Nordic Council The Nordic Council is the official body for formal inter-parliamentary Nordic cooperation among the Nordic countries. Formed in 1952, it has 87 representatives from Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden as well as from the autonomou ...

. Linguistically, the area is heterogeneous, with three unrelated language groups, the North Germanic branch of

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and the Finnic and Sami branches of

Uralic languages The Uralic languages (; sometimes called Uralian languages ) form a language family of 38 languages spoken by approximately 25million people, predominantly in Northern Eurasia. The Uralic languages with the most native speakers are Hungarian ...

as well as the Eskimo–Aleut language Greenlandic spoken in

. The Nordic countries have a combined population of approximately 27 million spread over a land area of 3.5 million km² (Greenland accounts for 60% of the total area).

Passengers

At a glance

2021 statistics

Airports for which figures are not available but are likely to be among top 100 include: * Kangerlussuaq Airport * Nuuk Airport * Ilulissat Airport *

Ísafjörður Airport Ísafjörður Airport ( is, Ísafjarðarflugvöllur ) is an airport serving Ísafjörður, a town in the Westfjords ( is, Vestfirðir) region in northwestern Iceland. History Planning for the airport started in 1958 construction of the runway sta ...

The ranking does not include these airports.

2020 statistics

Airports for which figures are not available but are likely to be among top 100 include: * Kangerlussuaq Airport * Nuuk Airport * Ilulissat Airport * Narsarsuaq Airport *

The ranking does not include these airports. Greenland airport administration publishes a figure of 87,672 for Kangerlussuaq and Narsarsuaq together, and 124,762 for all other airports together.

2020 COVID-19 statistics

For the purpose of documenting the large decline in air travel during the

COVID-19 pandemic The COVID-19 pandemic, also known as the coronavirus pandemic, is an ongoing global pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). The novel virus was first identi ...

, figures for April 2020 are compared with April 2019 (for the 50 busiest airports).

2019 statistics

2018 statistics

International and domestic

2017 statistics

International and domestic

2016 statistics

2015 statistics

2014 statistics

International and domestic

2013 statistics

2012 statistics

Aircraft movements

Note: The statistics provided below do not include any movements by aircraft registered as military or touch and goes.

2012 statistics

Freight and mail tonnes

Note: The statistics below are provided in metric tonnes with three decimal digits, i.e. with an accuracy of number of kilograms handled at each airport. The statistics do not include belly cargo transported on regular or charter passenger flights.

2012 statistics

Greenlandic airports are excluded from this list because of lack of information. The ranking does not include Greenlandic airports.

Busiest metropolitan air-traffic regions

2016 statistics

2015 statistics

2014 statistics

2013 statistics (provisional)

2012 statistics

Passengers

Aircraft movements

Note: The statistics provided below do not include any movements by aircraft registered as military or touch and goes.

Freight and mail tonnes

Busiest air routes

Included below are statistics for the busiest air routes in terms of total passengers on board. When air traffic exists to/from or between secondary airports for a city/region, the secondary airports are included in the statistics below according to the footnotes. The main airport is defined as the airport handling the highest number of passengers for each city/region.

Busiest intra-Nordic air routes

These statistics include total passengers on-board between and within the

. ¹ Includes

Oslo Airport Oslo Airport ( no, Oslo lufthavn; ), alternatively referred to as Oslo Gardermoen Airport or simply Gardermoen, is the international airport serving Oslo, Norway, the capital and most populous city in the country. A hub for Flyr, Norse Atl ...

, Moss Airport Rygge and Torp Sandefjord Airport
² Includes

and Torp Sandefjord Airport
³ Includes Stockholm Arlanda Airport and Bromma Stockholm Airport
⁴ In these statistics

Malmö Malmö (, ; da, Malmø ) is the largest city in the Swedish county (län) of Scania (Skåne). It is the third-largest city in Sweden, after Stockholm and Gothenburg, and the sixth-largest city in the Nordic region, with a municipal popul ...

and Helsingborg/ Ängelholm are separated from

Copenhagen Copenhagen ( or .; da, København ) is the capital and most populous city of Denmark, with a proper population of around 815.000 in the last quarter of 2022; and some 1.370,000 in the urban area; and the wider Copenhagen metropolitan a ...

Roskilde Roskilde ( , ) is a city west of Copenhagen on the Danish island of Zealand. With a population of 51,916 (), the city is a business and educational centre for the region and the 10th largest city in Denmark. It is governed by the administrative ...

. When these airports in the Øresund region are considered together, flights between this region and

Stockholm Stockholm () is the capital and largest city of Sweden as well as the largest urban area in Scandinavia. Approximately 980,000 people live in the municipality, with 1.6 million in the urban area, and 2.4 million in the metropo ...

carried 2,885,369 passengers in 2012 and 2,789,626 in 2019, making this the busiest intra-Nordic air corridor.

Busiest intra–European Union air routes

These statisticsEurostat>Transport>Data>Database
Search the "avia_par_dk", "avia_par_no" etc datasets (accessed Oct 2021) include total passenger on-board between the

and other countries within the

European Union The European Union (EU) is a supranational union, supranational political union, political and economic union of Member state of the European Union, member states that are located primarily in Europe, Europe. The union has a total area of ...

and member states of the

European Free Trade Association The European Free Trade Association (EFTA) is a regional trade organization and free trade area consisting of four European states: Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway and Switzerland. The organization operates in parallel with the European U ...

. At the time these values refer to, the

United Kingdom The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain, is a country in Europe, off the north-western coast of the continental mainland. It comprises England, Scotland, Wales and ...

was part of the European Union, and is therefore still listed here. ¹ Includes

London Heathrow Airport Heathrow Airport (), called ''London Airport'' until 1966 and now known as London Heathrow , is a major international airport in London, England. It is the largest of the six international airports in the London airport system (the others be ...

London Gatwick Airport Gatwick Airport (), also known as London Gatwick , is a major international airport near Crawley, West Sussex, England, south of Central London. In 2021, Gatwick was the third-busiest airport by total passenger traffic in the UK, after Hea ...

London Stansted Airport London Stansted Airport is a tertiary international airport serving London, England, United Kingdom. It is located near Stansted Mountfitchet, Essex, England, northeast of Central London. London Stansted serves over 160 destinations a ...

and/or London Luton Airport
² Includes Stockholm Arlanda Airport,

Stockholm Skavsta Airport Stockholm Skavsta Airport ( Swedish: ''Stockholm Skavsta flygplats''), or Nyköping Airport is an international airport near Nyköping, Sweden, northwest of its urban area and approximately southwest of Stockholm. It is served by low-cost air ...

and

Stockholm Västerås Airport Stockholm Västerås Airport, also known as ''Hässlö Flygplats'' is a minor international airport located near the city of Västerås in Sweden, west of Stockholm Municipality and Stockholm County. History In 1931 the area started to be us ...

³ Includes

, Moss Airport Rygge and Torp Sandefjord Airport
⁴ Includes

Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport (french: Aéroport de Paris-Charles-de-Gaulle, ), also known as Roissy Airport or simply Paris CDG, is the principal airport serving the French capital, Paris ( and its metropolitan area), and the largest intern ...

and

Paris Orly Airport Paris Orly Airport (french: Aéroport de Paris-Orly), commonly referred to as Orly , is one of two international airports serving the French capital, Paris, the other one being Charles de Gaulle Airport (CDG). It is located partially in Orly an ...

⁵ Includes

and Torp Sandefjord Airport
⁶ Includes Stockholm Arlanda Airport and

⁷ Includes

Frankfurt Airport Frankfurt Airport (; german: link=no, Flughafen Frankfurt Main , also known as ''Rhein-Main-Flughafen'') is a major international airport located in Frankfurt, the fifth-largest city of Germany and one of the world's leading financial centres ...

and Frankfurt Hahn Airport
⁸ Includes

and

⁹ Includes

and

Paris Beauvais Tillé Airport Paris () is the capital and most populous city of France, with an estimated population of 2,165,423 residents in 2019 in an area of more than 105 km² (41 sq mi), making it the 30th most densely populated city in the world in 2020. S ...

¹⁰ Includes Göteborg Landvetter Airport, and Göteborg City Airport
¹¹ Includes

Berlin Tegel Airport Berlin Tegel "Otto Lilienthal" Airport (german: link=no, Flughafen Berlin-Tegel „Otto Lilienthal“) was the primary international airport of Berlin, the federal capital of Germany. The airport was named after aviation pioneer Otto Lilient ...

and

Berlin Schönefeld Airport Berlin Schönefeld Airport () (formerly ) was the secondary international airport of Berlin, the capital of Germany. It was located southeast of Berlin near the town of Schönefeld in the state of Brandenburg and bordered Berlin's southern bo ...

¹² Includes

and Moss Airport Rygge
¹³ Includes

and

¹⁴ Includes

Munich Airport Munich International Airport- Franz Josef Strauß (german: link=no, Flughafen München) is an international airport serving Munich and Upper Bavaria. It is the second-busiest airport in Germany in terms of passenger traffic after Frankfurt A ...

and

Allgäu Airport Memmingen Memmingen Airport , also known as ''Allgäu Airport Memmingen'', is an international airport in the town of Memmingerberg near Memmingen, the third-largest city in the Swabia region of Bavaria. It is the smallest of the three commercial airpor ...

¹⁵ Includes Barcelona–El Prat Airport and Girona–Costa Brava Airport
¹⁶ Includes

Brussels Airport Brussels Airport, nl, Luchthaven Brussel, vls, Vliegpling Brussel, german: Flughafen Brüssel is an international airport northeast of Brussels, the capital of Belgium. In 2019, more than 26 million passengers arrived or departed at Brus ...

and Brussels-Charleroi Airport
¹⁷ Includes Rome-Fiumicino Airport and Rome-Ciampino Airport
¹⁸ Refers to

Keflavík Airport Keflavík (pronounced , meaning ''Driftwood Bay'') is a town in the Reykjanes region in southwest Iceland. It is included in the municipality of Reykjanesbær whose population as of 2016 is 15,129. In 1995, Keflavik merged with nearby Njarðv ...

Busiest extra–European Union air routes

These statistics include total passengers on board between the

and countries outside of the

and non-member states of the

. ¹ Includes the new

Istanbul Airport Istanbul Airport ( tr, İstanbul Havalimanı, ) is the main international airport serving Istanbul, Turkey. It is located in the Arnavutköy district on the European side of the city. All scheduled commercial passenger flights were transfer ...

Istanbul Atatürk Airport ) , postal_code_type = Postal code , postal_code = 34000 to 34990 , area_code = +90 212 (European side) +90 216 (Asian side) , registration_plate = 34 , blank_name_sec2 = GeoTLD , blank_ ...

and Istanbul Sabiha Gökçen International Airport
² Includes

and Torp Sandefjord Airport
³ Includes John F. Kennedy International Airport and

Newark Liberty International Airport Newark Liberty International Airport , originally Newark Metropolitan Airport and later Newark International Airport, is an international airport straddling the boundary between the cities of Newark in Essex County and Elizabeth in Union Cou ...

⁴ Includes

⁵ Includes

Narita International Airport Narita International Airport ( ja, 成田国際空港, Narita Kokusai Kūkō) , also known as Tokyo-Narita, formerly and originally known as , is one of two international airports serving the Greater Tokyo Area, the other one being Haneda Airpo ...

⁶ Includes

Sheremetyevo International Airport Sheremetyevo Alexander S. Pushkin International Airport ( rus, links=no, Международный аэропорт Шереметьево имени А. С. Пушкина, p=ʂɨrʲɪˈmʲetʲjɪvə ''Mezhdunarodny aeroport Sheremetyevo imen ...

⁷ Includes Keflavík International Airport
⁸ Includes Washington-Dulles and Baltimore-Washington airports

Gallery

File:Copenhagen airport from air.jpg, Copenhagen Airport, aerial view File:CPH LUFTHAVNEN 2011 (ubt).JPG, Copenhagen Airport, terminal and main hangar area with new low-cost terminal to the left File:Border control at Copenhagen Airport.jpg, Copenhagen Airport, non-schengen border control at pier C File:OslPlane.JPG, Oslo Airport, domestic concourse File:OslDomEn.JPG, Oslo Airport, entrance to domestic area File:Oslcheckin2.JPG, Oslo Airport, check-in area File:Arlanda 1 Publish.jpg, Stockholm Arlanda Airport, aerial view from the north File:Aéroport d'Arlanda - Stockholm0360.JPG, Stockholm Arlanda Airport, terminal 5 File:Arlanda Flightower.jpg, Stockholm Arlanda Airport, control tower File:Helsinki-vantaa aerial.jpg, Helsinki Airport, aerial view from the east File:Helsinki-Vantaan kiitotie 33.jpg, Helsinki Airport, aerial view from runway 33 File:Helsinki-Vantaa airport Finnair planes.jpg, Helsinki Airport, apron view File:Fleslandflyplass.JPG, Bergen Airport Flesland, terminal view File:Departures entrance at Landvetter.JPG, Göteborg Landvetter Airport, terminal entrance File:Sola lufthavn.jpg, Stavanger Airport Sola, terminal File:Vaernes terminal.jpg, Trondheim Airport Værnes, terminal File:Billundin lentoasema, Billund, Tanska, 3.8.2008.JPG, Billund Airport, Capella Bar in terminal File:StockholmSkavsta2004.jpg, Stockholm Skavsta Airport, terminal entrance File:BrommaAirportTerminalEntrance KaptenKaos.jpg, Stockholm Bromma Airport, terminal entrance File:2006-05-27-082806 Iceland Keflavík.jpg, Keflavík International Airport, aerial view of terminal File:Sturup airport.jpg, Malmö Airport, terminal from domestic side File:Langnes.jpg, Tromsø Airport Langnes, aerial view File:Bodø lufthavn.jpg, Bodø Airport, aerial view File:Moss lufthavn, Rygge.jpg, Moss Airport Rygge, terminal File:Aalborg Lufthavn 2006 entrance.jpg, Aalborg Airport, terminal entrance File:Sandefjord Airport, Torp from the air cropped.jpg, Torp Sandefjord Airport, aerial view File:Luleå airport entrance.jpg, Luleå Airport, terminal entrance File:07.9.2010 EFOU08.jpg, Oulu Airport, terminal overview File:Umeå Flygplats-20080726.jpg, Umeå City Airport, terminal entrance File:Aeropuerto de Kristiansand.jpg, Kristiansand Airport Kjevik, apron view File:Alesund-lufthavn-facade.jpg, Ålesund Airport Vigra, terminal entrance File:Gothenburg City Airport.JPG, Göteborg City Airport, taxi line at terminal File:Tampere-Pirkkala Airport 1.jpg, Tampere-Pirkkala Airport, terminal overview File:Aeropuerto Haugesund 01.jpg, Haugesund Airport Karmøy, parking at terminal File:Gate 30 at Harstad-Narvik airport.jpg, Harstad/Narvik Airport Evenes, terminal at Gate 30 File:Denmark-Aarhus Airport.JPG, Aarhus Airport, terminal File:Molde Airport.jpg, Molde Airport Årø, terminal in background File:Reykjavik Airport aerial.jpg, Reykjavík Airport, aerial view File:Rovaniemen lentoasemarakennus.jpg, Rovaniemi Airport, terminal File:Ängelholm airport overview 2.JPG, Ängelholm-Helsingborg Airport, terminal view from air aide File:Åre östersund flygplats.jpg, Åre Östersund Airport Airport, terminal view File:Eftu 23.JPG, Turku Airport, terminal check-in area File:Kristiansund Airport.png, Kristiansund Airport Kvernberget, aerial view File:Alta-lufthavn.jpg, Alta Airport, terminal File:Visby flygplats.JPG, Visby Airport, road to terminal File:Vaasan lentoasema.jpg, Vaasa Airport, terminal land side File:Kirkenes Airport 20081006.jpg, Kirkenes Airport Høybuktmoen, terminal air side File:Kuopio airport from air cropped.jpg, Kuopio Airport, apron and terminal File:Sundsvall-Härnösand Airport (Terminal building).JPG, Sundsvall-Härnösand Airport, terminal land side File:Skelleftea airport.JPG, Skellefteå Airport, terminal and ATC-tower land side File:Kittilän lentoasema.jpg, Kittilä Airport, terminal and ATC-tower air side File:EKRN (Bornholm airport).jpg, Bornholm Airport, terminal and ATC-tower air side File:Ronneby airport.jpg, Ronneby Airport, terminal land side File:Vágar Airport, Faroe Islands.JPG, Vágar Airport, service buildings adjacent to apron File:Bardufoss lufthamn.jpg, Bardufoss Airport, runway and approach lights File:Smaland Airport.jpg, Växjö Småland Airport, terminal land side File:Kalmar airport.jpg, Kalmar Airport, terminal land side File:Kiruna flygplats.jpg, Kiruna Airport, terminal land side File:Brønnøysund Airport, Brønnøy inside.jpg, Brønnøysund Airport Brønnøy, inside terminal File:ESOW från parkeringen.jpg, Stockholm Västerås Airport, terminal land side File:Hammerfest Airport runway.jpg, Hammerfest Airport, airport overview File:Nuuk airport.jpg, Nuuk Airport, terminal and runway

References

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Passengers

At a glance

2021 statistics

2020 statistics

2020 COVID-19 statistics

2019 statistics

2018 statistics

International and domestic

2017 statistics

International and domestic

2016 statistics

2015 statistics

2014 statistics

International and domestic

2013 statistics

2012 statistics

Aircraft movements

2012 statistics

Freight and mail tonnes

2012 statistics

Busiest metropolitan air-traffic regions

2016 statistics

2015 statistics

2014 statistics

2013 statistics (provisional)

2012 statistics

Passengers

Aircraft movements

Freight and mail tonnes

Busiest air routes

Busiest intra-Nordic air routes

Busiest intra–European Union air routes

Busiest extra–European Union air routes

Gallery

See also

References