Vadsø Airport guide

Vadsø Airport sits in the village of Kiby, about 4 km east of Vadsø town centre on the Varanger Peninsula in Finnmark. It opened on 1 August 1974 and is owned and operated by the state-owned company Avinor. The Kiby site was chosen over an alternative location during planning in the 1960s.

The airport has a single asphalt runway, designated 08/26. The terminal dates from 1984, covers about 350 square metres and can handle roughly 170 passengers an hour. It can park two Dash 8-100 aircraft at once.

Widerøe operates all scheduled traffic with 39-seat Dash 8-100 aircraft. Routes run to Tromsø and to other Finnmark communities including Kirkenes, Alta, Hammerfest, Båtsfjord, Berlevåg, Honningsvåg, Mehamn and Vardø. Most of these are public service obligation routes subsidised by the state. The airport handled 80,540 passengers in 2025.

Air service to Vadsø began in 1938 with a Widerøe seaplane route, decades before the land airport opened. Ground facilities include paid parking, a taxi stand and five car rental companies. The nearest larger airport, Kirkenes Airport, Høybuktmoen, is about 165 km away by road.