This is a list of the 100 busiest airports in the Nordic countries 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 Northern Europe and the North Atlantic 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 i ...

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 ...

. "

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" 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

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s and three autonomous regions share much common history as well as common traits in their respective

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, such as political systems and the Nordic model. Politically, Nordic countries do not form a separate entity, but they co-operate in the Nordic Council. Linguistically, the area is heterogeneous, with three unrelated language groups, the

North Germanic The North Germanic languages make up one of the three branches of the Germanic languages—a sub-family of the Indo-European languages—along with the West Germanic languages and the extinct East Germanic languages. The language group is also r ...

branch of

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and the Finnic and

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branches of

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as well as the

Eskimo–Aleut The Eskaleut (), Eskimo–Aleut or Inuit–Yupik–Unangan languages are a language family native to the northern portions of the North American continent and a small part of northeastern Asia. Languages in the family are indigenous to parts of w ...

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 Kangerlussuaq Airport ( kl, Mittarfik Kangerlussuaq, da, Søndre Strømfjord Lufthavn) is an airport in Kangerlussuaq, a settlement in the Qeqqata municipality in central-western Greenland. Alongside Narsarsuaq Airport, it is one of only two ...

Nuuk Airport Nuuk Airport ( kl, Mittarfik Nuuk; da, Godthåb Lufthavn; is an airport serving Nuuk, the capital of Greenland. The airport is a technical base and focus city for Air Greenland, the flag carrier airline of Greenland, linking the capital with s ...

Ilulissat Airport Ilulissat Airport ( kl, Mittarfik Ilulissat, da, Ilulissat Lufthavn); () is a minor international airport serving Ilulissat, Greenland, the entire Disko Bay Region, the North and West Greenland. It is the 59th largest airport in the Nordic co ...

* Ísafjörður Airport 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: *

* Narsarsuaq Airport * Ísafjörður 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 Nordic countries. ¹ Includes Oslo Airport, Moss Airport Rygge and Torp Sandefjord Airport
² Includes Oslo Airport and Torp Sandefjord Airport
³ Includes

Stockholm Arlanda Airport Stockholm Arlanda Airport is an international airport located in the Sigtuna Municipality of Sweden, near the town of Märsta, north of Stockholm and nearly south-east of Uppsala. The airport is located within Stockholm County and the provi ...

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 pop ...

and

Helsingborg Helsingborg (, , , ) is a city and the seat of Helsingborg Municipality, Scania (Skåne), Sweden. It is the second-largest city in Scania (after Malmö) and ninth-largest in Sweden, with a population of 113,816 (2020). Helsingborg is the cent ...

Ängelholm Ängelholm is a locality and the seat of Ängelholm Municipality in Skåne, Sweden with 39,612 inhabitants in 2010. History The old settlement ''Rynestad'' was mentioned around the year 1600. The city was founded in 1516 as Engelholm by King Chri ...

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 ar ...

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 The Øresund Region ( da, Øresundsregionen ; sv, Öresundsregionen ), also known as Greater Copenhagen for marketing purposes, is a metropolitan region that comprises eastern Denmark and Skåne in southern Sweden. Centred around the Øresund ...

are considered together, flights between this region and Stockholm 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 Nordic countries and other countries within the

European Union The European Union (EU) is a supranational political and economic union of member states that are located primarily in Europe. The union has a total area of and an estimated total population of about 447million. The EU has often been de ...

and member states of the European Free Trade Association. 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 European mainland, continental mainland. It comprises England, Scotlan ...

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,

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 ac ...

and/or

London Luton Airport London Luton Airport is an international airport located in Luton, Bedfordshire, England, situated east of the town centre, and north of Central London. The airport is owned by London Luton Airport Ltd (LLAL), a company wholly owned by ...

² Includes

, Stockholm Skavsta Airport and Stockholm Västerås Airport
³ Includes Oslo Airport, Moss Airport Rygge and Torp Sandefjord Airport
⁴ Includes Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport and Paris Orly Airport
⁵ Includes Oslo Airport and Torp Sandefjord Airport
⁶ Includes

and Stockholm Skavsta Airport
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 Frankfurt, officially Frankfurt am Main (; Hessian: , " Frank ford on the Main"), is the most populous city in the German state of Hesse. Its 791,000 inhabitants as of 2022 make it the fifth-most populous city in Germany. Located on its ...

⁸ Includes

and London Gatwick Airport
⁹ Includes Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport and Paris Beauvais Tillé Airport
¹⁰ Includes Göteborg Landvetter Airport, and

Göteborg City Airport Gothenburg (; abbreviated Gbg; sv, Göteborg ) is the second-largest city in Sweden, fifth-largest in the Nordic countries, and capital of the Västra Götaland County. It is situated by the Kattegat, on the west coast of Sweden, and has a p ...

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 Lilienth ...

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 bou ...

¹² Includes Oslo Airport and Moss Airport Rygge
¹³ Includes Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport, Paris Orly Airport and Paris Beauvais Tillé Airport
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
¹⁵ Includes Barcelona–El Prat Airport and Girona–Costa Brava Airport
¹⁶ Includes Brussels Airport and Brussels-Charleroi Airport
¹⁷ Includes Rome-Fiumicino Airport and Rome-Ciampino Airport
¹⁸ Refers to Keflavík Airport

Busiest extra–European Union air routes

These statistics include total passengers on board between the Nordic countries and countries outside of the

and non-member states of the European Free Trade Association. 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 and

Istanbul Sabiha Gökçen International Airport Istanbul Sabiha Gökçen International Airport ( tr, İstanbul Sabiha Gökçen Uluslararası Havalimanı) is one of two international airports serving Istanbul, the largest city in Turkey. Located southeast of the city center, Sabiha Gökçen ...

² Includes Oslo Airport and Torp Sandefjord Airport
³ Includes

John F. Kennedy International Airport John F. Kennedy International Airport (colloquially referred to as JFK Airport, Kennedy Airport, New York-JFK, or simply JFK) is the main international airport serving New York City. The airport is the busiest of the seven airports in the Avia ...

and Newark Liberty International Airport
⁴ Includes Newark Liberty International Airport
⁵ Includes Narita International Airport
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 Keflavík Airport ( is, Keflavíkurflugvöllur ) , also known as Reykjavík–Keflavík Airport, is the largest airport in Iceland and the country's main hub for international transportation. The airport is west of Keflavík and southwest of ...

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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Nordic countries

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