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![Helsinki Vantaa](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/76/Helsinki-Vantaa_airport.jpg)

# Helsinki Vantaa

Helsinki-Vantaa Airport, or simply Helsinki Airport, is the main international airport serving Helsinki, the capital of Finland, as well as its surrounding metropolitan area, and the Uusimaa region in Finland.

[Plan a trip to Helsinki Vantaa](https://www.mixroutes.com/?to=Helsinki%20Vantaa) [From Tampere / Pirkkala](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Tampere+%2F+Pirkkala&to=Helsinki+Vantaa)

## Every way there

- Tampere / Pirkkala → Helsinki Vantaa 142 km · quickest by road, 2h 13m · €18–25 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/tampere-pirkkala-to-helsinki-vantaa) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Tampere+%2F+Pirkkala&to=Helsinki+Vantaa)
- Turku → Helsinki Vantaa 148 km · quickest by road, 2h 8m · €17–24 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/turku-to-helsinki-vantaa) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Turku&to=Helsinki+Vantaa)
- Lappeenranta → Helsinki Vantaa 195 km · quickest by road, 3h 1m · €22–31 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/lappeenranta-to-helsinki-vantaa) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Lappeenranta&to=Helsinki+Vantaa)

Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.

The field note

What is in and around Helsinki Vantaa, ranked by how widely it is written about, how you reach it, and the nearest places where we have researched how people move.

[Read the note on Helsinki Vantaa](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/helsinki-vantaa)

What Helsinki Vantaa has

- Y Scheduled flights Helsinki (Vantaa) (HEL), 0 km
- N Trains and coaches no timetable feed known for this country
- Y Ferries Kalasataman saaristovenelaituri, 15 km; sailings estimated
- Y Driving and taxi OpenStreetMap roads; cab fare from the country band
- N Bike and scooter share no share feed known
- N Cruises no open itinerary source anywhere

Y routable now · F found, not yet implemented · N no source known. Nearest place with more: Vantaa, 5 km.

60.317°, 24.963°

The airport is located in the neighbouring city of Vantaa, about 5 kilometres (3 mi) west of Tikkurila, the administrative centre of Vantaa and 9.2 NM north of Helsinki's city centre. The airport is operated by state-owned Finavia. The facility covers a total of 1,800 hectares of land and contains three runways.

How locals move

## Getting around Helsinki Vantaa the local way

- Get in A few European roads lead to Helsinki: E12 leads from Norway's coast through Vaasa (following the Blue Highway at that leg); E18 comes in from Stockholm in the west and from Saint Petersburg in the east; E67 (Via Baltica) ends in Tallinn, with several car ferries to Helsinki; E75 comes in from northern Norway and continues south-west by a non-existent ferry connection.
- Go next The Archipelago Sea and Åland to the west are known for their beauty and are accessible also by car and bicycle thanks to the ferries.
- Go next There is also a ferry directly from Hanko to Sweden.
- Go next There are about 10 daily ferry departures from Helsinki to Tallinn (in the summer even more).

From [Wikivoyage: Uusimaa](https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Uusimaa), CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us. Last edited 2026-06.

Text adapted from [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helsinki_Airport) and [Wikivoyage](https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Helsinki_Airport), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photograph: Wikimedia Commons (see Commons), Wikimedia Commons.


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