VBYESSV

Visby Airport

Visby, Sweden · Europe

Europe Europe/Stockholm

7direct destinations

6airlines

2runways

2,000 mLongest runway

1944opened

Visby Airport (IATA: VBY, ICAO: ESSV), is located about 3.5 kilometres (2.2 mi) north of Visby, Gotland, Sweden. Visby airport is Gotland's only commercial airport and the 12th largest airport in Sweden. The airport had 463,616 passengers in 2016. The traffic has a large seasonal variation, with many more passengers in the summer: in 2016, it had 18,070 passengers in January and 57,302 in July. During the Almedalen Week the airport is slot coordinated.

Location

57.663°N, 18.346°E · 50 m s. n. m. (164 ft)

General data

CountrySweden

CityVisby

IATA codeVBY

ICAO codeESSV

Coordinates57.663°N, 18.346°E

Elevation50 m s. n. m. (164 ft)

Time zoneEurope/Stockholm

Runways2

Longest runway2,000 m

OperatorSwedavia

Opened1944

Direct destinations7

Official website

Runways · 2

03/21

Length2,000 m6,562 ft

Width45 m148 ft

SurfaceAsphalt

Lighted✓

10/28

Length1,101 m3,612 ft

Width40 m131 ft

SurfaceGrass

Lengths and surfaces from the public OurAirports register; open runways only.

Radio frequencies · 2

Tower

120.305Visby TWR

Approach

126.155Visby APP

Look for a live feed on LiveATC External site; not every airport has a feed.

Reference frequencies for enthusiasts, from OurAirports (community database, public domain), checked on Oct 16, 2026. They may be outdated or incomplete and do not replace the AIP or current charts: not for navigation. In Europe the published frequency may be an 8.33 kHz channel (e.g., 118.505 for 118.500). In MHz.

History

Seaplanes were used for public flights to Gotland from 1925, landing in a sheltered bay near Slite, or in Lake Tingstäde.

Visby Airport was opened on 27 January 1942. The first aircraft to land was a Junkers Ju 52/3m named Göteland from AB Aerotransport. In October of the same year, regular traffic between Visby and the Swedish mainland started, in the beginning mostly with Ju 52s. In 1958, a new terminal building, a new control tower and a new runway made of asphalt was inaugurated. A runway also featured a railway crossing. The current terminal and control tower opened in 1985.

Airlines operating here · 6

Other airlines with direct routes

Nyxair Scandinavian Airlines Finnair Norwegian Air Shuttle Ryanair Sunclass Airlinescharter

Airlines with current passenger routes from here, according to Wikipedia route tables cross-checked from both ends (October 2026).

Photo: Mr Bullitt · CC BY 2.5 · view original

Data from OurAirports (public domain) · destinations and airlines from Wikipedia route tables (CC BY-SA, 2026), unless another source is given · profile and photo from Wikidata/Wikimedia Commons (CC0 / CC) · summary and history from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA).

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This page was last updated on October 15, 2026

APA

Vuelopedia. (2026, October 15). Visby Airport (VBY). Retrieved October 18, 2026, from https://vuelopedia.org/en/airport/VBY

MLA

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Chicago

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Harvard

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BibTeX

@misc{vuelopedia_en_airport_vby,
  author       = {{Vuelopedia}},
  title        = {{Visby Airport (VBY)}},
  publisher    = {Fundación Poderia},
  year         = {2026},
  date         = {2026-10-15},
  url          = {https://vuelopedia.org/en/airport/VBY},
  howpublished = {\url{https://vuelopedia.org/en/airport/VBY}},
  urldate      = {2026-10-18},
  note         = {Accessed 2026-10-18}
}

Wikipedia

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