🇬🇷 Heraklion, Greece
Heraklion International Nikos Kazantzakis Airport (HER)
Heraklion International Nikos Kazantzakis Airport (HER, LGIR) serves Heraklion, Greece. 10.1 million passengers used it in the twelve months to March 2026, most often flying to or from Athens.
Passengers at HER
10,076,350 passengers used HER in the twelve months to March 2026, on 62,419 commercial flights.
See the figures
| Month | Passengers | Flights |
|---|---|---|
| April 2025 | 595,850 | 3,888 |
| May 2025 | 1,054,092 | 6,631 |
| June 2025 | 1,395,805 | 8,607 |
| July 2025 | 1,692,052 | 10,250 |
| August 2025 | 1,789,502 | 10,588 |
| September 2025 | 1,471,612 | 8,954 |
| October 2025 | 1,172,688 | 7,276 |
| November 2025 | 246,181 | 1,694 |
| December 2025 | 180,639 | 1,165 |
| January 2026 | 138,645 | 1,062 |
| February 2026 | 149,928 | 963 |
| March 2026 | 189,356 | 1,341 |
Eurostat publishes airport figures a few months behind. Source: Eurostat (CC BY 4.0), summarised by TripStow.
Busiest routes from HER
- Athens (ATH)1,399,393 passengers
- Duesseldorf (DUS)341,826 passengers
- London Gatwick (LGW)323,738 passengers
- Frankfurt am Main (FRA)296,666 passengers
- Thessaloniki Macedonia (SKG)295,551 passengers
- Munich (MUC)293,994 passengers
- Amsterdam Airport Schiphol (AMS)256,526 passengers
- Tel-aviv (TLV)231,200 passengers
- Manchester (MAN)226,679 passengers
- Zurich (ZRH)215,653 passengers
Passengers in 2024, both directions together. Source: Eurostat (CC BY 4.0), summarised by TripStow.
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