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Map: OpenStreetMap contributors, captured 20 Oct 2026. North is up and the drawing is simplified. Each runway is labelled at its ends.
Location
Heraklion, Greece
ICAO code
LGIR
IATA code
HER
Elevation
115 ft
Longest runway
8,904 ft (09/27)
Runways
2
Size class
Large
Position
35.3397, 25.1803
About LGIR
Heraklion International Nikos Kazantzakis Airport (HER) is a large airport in Heraklion, Greece, with the ICAO code LGIR. Its two runways are 09/27 and 12/30. The longer one, 09/27, is 8,904 ft. All of them have hard surfaces. The OpenStreetMap layout shows 7 gates, 134 taxiway segments, 6 aprons and 1 terminal outlines. In the route snapshot of 14 Oct 2026, 145 airlines have 3,944 routes through LGIR. Its most frequent links are Amsterdam (AMS), Düsseldorf (DUS) and London (LGW).
Runways
Runways, longest first
Runway
Length
Width
Surface
Lights
09 / 27
8,904 ft
148 ft
Hard
Lit
12 / 30
5,138 ft
164 ft
Hard
Not 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 These are standing schedules, not live flights, and they can be out of date.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
Aegean AEE255 routes
easyJet EZY228 routes
TUI TOM178 routes
Condor CFG145 routes
Jet2 EXS127 routes
Transavia TVF123 routes
Eurowings EWG120 routes
easyJet Europe EJU65 routes
Also flying here, shown by airline code: CXI, TRA, SEH, TVS, JAF, TFL, TUI.
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.
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