Westerland Sylt Airport

Westerland Sylt Airport (GWT/EDXW) is in Sylt, DE, 16 m above sea level. It has 2 runways and the longest is 2,120 m. See the diagram, each runway's data and what you fly over from here.

The diagram

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Drawn to scale from the real coordinates of each runway end. Runways without coordinates are not drawn.

Data

Codes
GWT · EDXW
City
Sylt
Country
DE
Coordinates
54.9132, 8.3405
Elevation
16 m · 51 ft
Time zone
Europe/Berlin
Local time now
15:18
Airspace
Bremen
Departures observed
10 · 7 arrivals
Most seen destinations
BER, HAM, MUC, STR, DUS

Departures and arrivals we saw ourselves on adsb.lol traces over 2 day(s). A floor, not the total number of movements: where no receiver is nearby, nothing is seen.

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That day’s flights

What we saw take off and land on 2026-09-03, in local time here. This is not an arrivals board: it does not say what leaves today, it says what flew that day and only what the receivers managed to see.

Took off (9)

TimeCallsignAircraftTo
08:54EWG2141A319 · D-AGWMSTR
10:57PVD414PE55P · D-CTORPAD
12:33NJE948KGL5T · CS-GLZBER
13:04EWG13VDA319 · D-AGWMDUS
14:16DILIAC525 · D-ILIA
17:14PHIFTSLG4 · PH-IFT
17:20ATV404DH8D · D-AASGBER
19:28SWR90ABCS3 · YL-ABKZRH
20:56DLH2185A319 · D-AIBAMUC

Landed (7)

TimeCallsignAircraftFrom
07:51EWG7HPA319 · D-AGWMDUS
11:14NJE478BGL5T · CS-GLZACH
12:12EWG2141A319 · D-AGWMSTR
12:42DILIAC525 · D-ILIABRE
16:39ATV403DH8D · D-AASGBER
18:23SWR5KVBCS3 · YL-ABKZRH
20:01DLH1LMA319 · D-AIBAMUC

The callsign is what the aircraft transmits by radio. It usually matches the commercial flight number, but not always: sometimes it is the registration.

Showing the first 40 in each direction.

Runways (2)

RunwayLength SurfaceHeadings
14/322,120 m · 6,955 ftconcrete142° · 322°
06/241,696 m · 5,564 ftconcrete58° · 238°

An asterisk marks a heading derived from the runway number rather than measured. The number is a magnetic heading and the measured one is true: the derived value carries the local magnetic declination, up to 20 degrees.

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And this on board

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