Airport
Helsinki Vantaa Airport HEL
Helsinki, Finland · Large airport · ICAO EFHK
Positioned as a short-hop connection between Europe and northeast Asia, since the great-circle track from much of Europe to Japan and Korea passes close by. Finnair's hub, with a compact terminal built around transfer traffic.
Reference data
- IATA
- HEL
- ICAO
- EFHK
- Elevation
- 179 ft
- Coordinates
- 60.3184, 24.9633
Local time at HEL
22:35 GMT+3
Sat, 3 Oct 2026 · UTC+03:00 · Europe/Helsinki
Offsets shift with daylight saving. The time zone planner resolves them for a specific travel date rather than today.
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Staying near HEL
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Nearby airports
Ranked by actual distance from HEL's coordinates, not by name or region. Useful when a fare or a schedule makes a neighbouring airport worth the ground transfer.
| IATA | Airport | City | Distance | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CHE | Tallinn Linnahall Heliport | Tallinn | 97 km | Look up |
| TLL | Lennart Meri Tallinn Airport | Tallinn | 101 km | Look up |
| TMP | Tampere-Pirkkala Airport | Tampere / Pirkkala | 142 km | Look up |
| TKU | Turku Airport | Turku | 150 km | Look up |
| KDL | Kärdla Airport | Kärdla | 190 km | Look up |
| LPP | Lappeenranta Airport | Lappeenranta | 191 km | Look up |
Airlines based here
Carriers in this site's directory that treat HEL as a hub. This is not a list of every airline serving the airport.
Verify anything that matters
Terminals, transfer times and facilities change, and this page does not track them. For operational detail, go to the airport itself.
Where this data comes from
Codes, coordinates and elevation come from the public-domain OurAirports dataset, pinned at build time — 4,133 airports, last refreshed 6 September 2026. The time zone is derived from the coordinates above.