KTW · Katowice, Poland
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Katowice Airport
Airport in Pyrzowice, Poland
机场当地时间
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时区
CET
Europe/Warsaw · UTC+02:00
机场情况
Live airport weather is temporarily unavailable.
地面交通
76 km
Approximate distance to central Katowice.
官方来源
Katowice Airport
Wikipedia / reference summary
机场当地时间
--:--:--CET · UTC+02:00
机场情况
Live airport weather is temporarily unavailable.
地面交通
76 km
Approximate distance to central Katowice.
Nearby indexed airports: 5
Country capital
Warsaw
Languages
Polish
Currency
PLN (zł)
Country area
312,679 km²
Passenger volume
7.3 million passengers (2025)
Terminals
Not clearly stated
Runways
Not clearly stated
Opened / operator
Operational history note unavailable
Arrival bank
The field is in a mid-day operating window, which is usually the cleanest time to compare transfers and surface access.
Hub airlines
Mixed or not clearly stated
Katowice Wojciech Korfanty International Airport is a major commercial gateway for Katowice, Poland. Katowice's built-up core sits roughly 76 km from the terminal area. Operations run on Europe/Warsaw (UTC+02:00, CET). Live weather is temporarily unavailable. With 5 other indexable airports in its surrounding network, it works well as a reference point for regional flight planning and timezone checks.
Katowice Wojciech Korfanty Airport is an international airport, located in Pyrzowice, 30 km (19 mi) north of Katowice, Poland. The airport is named after Wojciech Korfanty, a politician of the early years of Polish independence. It is the fourth-busiest airport in Poland by passenger volumes, with just shy of 7.3 million passengers in 2025. It is also the second-busiest airport in the country by cargo volume and the largest origin of charter flights in Poland.
Traffic profile
7.3 million passengers (2025)
Airline role
Mixed commercial service
Terminal footprint
See operational notes
Runway footprint
See operational notes
KTW is currently one of the curated airport pages where we can expose a real traffic signal: 7.3 million passengers (2025).
The airport sits inside a broader regional network with 5 nearby curated alternatives, so airline choice and connection strategy matter more here than at a single-airport market.
The current enrichment stack does not expose a clean operator record for every field yet, so this page leans on source-backed operational notes rather than inventing one.
These operational notes are synthesized from the airport summary source at Katowice Airport, then blended with the local timezone, route, and city-access data already on this page.
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| Destination | Route code | Estimated window | Arrival local time now |
|---|---|---|---|
| Balice | KRK | 55m | 11:00 AM |
| Łódź | LCJ | 1h 1m | 11:00 AM |
| Wrocław | WRO | 1h 3m | 11:00 AM |
| Warsaw | WAW | 1h 7m | 11:00 AM |
| Pardubice | PED | 1h 8m | 11:00 AM |
Balice (KRK) is one of the most useful comparison routes for KTW because it gives travelers an immediate sense of a typical 55m window and what the arrival-side clock looks like right now at 11:00 AM.
Łódź (LCJ) is one of the most useful comparison routes for KTW because it gives travelers an immediate sense of a typical 1h 1m window and what the arrival-side clock looks like right now at 11:00 AM.
Wrocław (WRO) is one of the most useful comparison routes for KTW because it gives travelers an immediate sense of a typical 1h 3m window and what the arrival-side clock looks like right now at 11:00 AM.
Warsaw (WAW) is one of the most useful comparison routes for KTW because it gives travelers an immediate sense of a typical 1h 7m window and what the arrival-side clock looks like right now at 11:00 AM.
Pardubice (PED) is one of the most useful comparison routes for KTW because it gives travelers an immediate sense of a typical 1h 8m window and what the arrival-side clock looks like right now at 11:00 AM.
Because the airport sits well outside central Katowice, surface transfer planning matters almost as much as flight timing, especially for late arrivals and early departures.
Kraków is the nearest mapped city anchor in the current dataset, which makes it the cleanest companion page when travelers want to switch from airport timing into local city timing.
Katowice Wojciech Korfanty International Airport has 5 nearby indexed airport alternatives, which makes backup departures and diversion logic part of real planning instead of a theoretical edge case.
Katowice Wojciech Korfanty International Airport is still useful as a route-planning anchor even when the current source summary does not spell out a long airline list, because nearby-airport context and time-zone differences are often what travelers need first.
The route timing references on this page are designed to answer the practical question behind most airport searches: if you leave or arrive here, what kind of cross-timezone planning burden are you taking on right away? The strongest current examples are Balice (KRK), Łódź (LCJ), Wrocław (WRO).
Planning checkpoints
Kraków John Paul II International Airport (KRK) is part of the same regional catchment conversation as Katowice Wojciech Korfanty International Airport, which matters when travelers compare alternate departures, diversions, backup connections, or surface-transfer options within the same broad metro or corridor.
Łódź Władysław Reymont Airport (LCJ) is part of the same regional catchment conversation as Katowice Wojciech Korfanty International Airport, which matters when travelers compare alternate departures, diversions, backup connections, or surface-transfer options within the same broad metro or corridor.
Copernicus Wrocław Airport (WRO) is part of the same regional catchment conversation as Katowice Wojciech Korfanty International Airport, which matters when travelers compare alternate departures, diversions, backup connections, or surface-transfer options within the same broad metro or corridor.
Warsaw Chopin Airport (WAW) is part of the same regional catchment conversation as Katowice Wojciech Korfanty International Airport, which matters when travelers compare alternate departures, diversions, backup connections, or surface-transfer options within the same broad metro or corridor.
Pardubice Airport (PED) is part of the same regional catchment conversation as Katowice Wojciech Korfanty International Airport, which matters when travelers compare alternate departures, diversions, backup connections, or surface-transfer options within the same broad metro or corridor.
Airport pages work best when they connect to nearby city timing, compare routes, and reusable planning tools. This block is here so travelers can jump from runway-level facts into meeting coordination and city-to-city scheduling without starting over.
Questions
Katowice Wojciech Korfanty International Airport is in the Europe/Warsaw timezone (UTC+02:00, CET).
The IATA code for Katowice Wojciech Korfanty International Airport is KTW.
Katowice Wojciech Korfanty International Airport is located in Katowice, Poland at coordinates 50.4760° N, 19.0807° E, with an elevation of 995 ft (303 m).
Katowice Wojciech Korfanty International Airport sits roughly 76 km from the nearest mapped city center for Katowice.
Balice (KRK) is one of the closest route references on this page, with an estimated travel window of 55m and an arrival-side local time of 11:00 AM.
Katowice sits in Poland, with Warsaw as the national capital. The wider market sits in Europe and more specifically Central Europe with common languages such as Polish and currency signals including PLN (zł) Airport operations follow Europe/Warsaw (CET, UTC+02:00).
Because the airport sits well outside central Katowice, surface transfer planning matters almost as much as flight timing, especially for late arrivals and early departures. The most useful route references on this page currently include Balice (KRK), Łódź (LCJ), Wrocław (WRO), Warsaw (WAW), Pardubice (PED), which helps travelers compare not just distance but also arrival-side local time.
The surrounding country context covers about 37,392,000 people across roughly 312,679 km² which matters because airport pages rank better when they explain the broader travel market rather than only listing field coordinates.
The airport is currently outside its most obvious peak bank, which usually makes it easier to compare routes, transfers, and pickup timing with less schedule pressure.
Because airport pages sit at the intersection of route timing, local weather, city access, and timezone conversion, we intentionally keep both the code-level facts and the travel-planning context on the same page instead of treating the airport as a bare database record.
Katowice Wojciech Korfanty International Airport sits in Poland. The national capital is Warsaw, common languages include Polish, and the market uses PLN (zł) for day-to-day pricing.
