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Westerland Sylt Airport (GWT)

Sylt, Germany · ICAO EDXW · IATA GWT

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Westerland Sylt Airport (EDXW)14320624
Map: OpenStreetMap contributors, captured 23 Oct 2026. North is up and the drawing is simplified. Each runway is labelled at its ends.
Location
Sylt, Germany
ICAO code
EDXW
IATA code
GWT
Elevation
51 ft
Longest runway
6,955 ft (14/32)
Runways
2
Size class
Medium
Position
54.9132, 8.3405

About EDXW

Westerland Sylt Airport (GWT) is a medium airport in Sylt, Germany, with the ICAO code EDXW. Its two runways are 14/32 and 06/24. The longer one, 14/32, is 6,955 ft. All of them have hard surfaces. The OpenStreetMap layout shows 3 gates, 41 taxiway segments, 4 aprons and 1 terminal outlines. In the route snapshot of 14 Oct 2026, 12 airlines have 64 routes through EDXW. Its most frequent links are Düsseldorf (DUS), Zurich (ZRH) and Stuttgart (STR).

Runways

Runways, longest first
RunwayLengthWidthSurfaceLights
14 / 326,955 ft148 ftHardLit
06 / 245,564 ft148 ftHardNot lit

Runway idents and sizes from OurAirports. The runway headings in the source do not always match the idents, so only the idents are shown.

Scheduled routes

Published route data from the snapshot of 14 Oct 2026. These are standing schedules, not live flights, and they can be out of date. Counts are routes in that snapshot.

Airlines flying here

  • Eurowings EWG21 routes
  • Lufthansa DLH12 routes
  • Swiss SWR10 routes
  • Austrian AUA3 routes
  • easyJet Europe EJU3 routes
  • Condor CFG1 route

Also flying here, shown by airline code: GWI, LGL, GER, HHI, HHN, NLY.

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Nearby airports with maps

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Sources: airport and runway data from OurAirports (public domain). Map data from OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL). Routes from Virtual Radar Server standing data (CC0), snapshot of 14 Oct 2026.