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Porto Airport

About 16.9 million passengers used Porto Airport in 2025. Metro line E starts outside the arrivals hall and reaches Trindade, in the heart of Porto, in about half an hour for €2.30.

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Porto Francisco Sá Carneiro Airport (OPO) lies about 11 km north-west of the city centre, is run by ANA Aeroportos de Portugal and handles every flight in a single terminal.

16.9 mpassengers in 2025
about 11 kmto central Porto
27-32 minby metro to Trindade
€2.30metro ticket, zone Z4

Facts & figures

Porto Airport in figures

Official name: Francisco Sá Carneiro Airport (Aeroporto Francisco Sá Carneiro), formerly Pedras Rubras
IATA / ICAO: OPO / LPPR
Operator: ANA Aeroportos de Portugal, part of VINCI Airports
Opened: 3 December 1945
Passengers: about 16.9 million (2025) · about 15.9 million (2024)
Distance to centre: about 11 km to the Clérigos Tower in central Porto
Location: Pedras Rubras, in the municipalities of Maia, Matosinhos and Vila do Conde
Terminal: one passenger terminal, opened in 2006
Elevation: 69 m (228 ft) above sea level
Runway: 17/35, 3,480 m, asphalt
Metro: Aeroporto station, line E (purple), outside the terminal

Getting there

From Porto Airport to Porto, Gaia and the north

About 11 km lie between Porto Airport and the city centre, and metro line E covers them for €2.30. Trains start outside the terminal, STCP city buses and long-distance coaches stop on the arrivals level, and metered taxis wait at the rank around the clock. Metro times below are those of the timetable valid since 7 September 2026, fares those of the tariff in force since 1 January 2026; values marked “about” are guide values.

Transport	Destination	Duration	Price	Frequency
Metro line E (purple)	Casa da Música, Trindade, Bolhão (city centre)	27-32 min to Trindade	€2.30 (Z4) + €0.60 card	about every 15 min by day, 06:06-00:42
Metro line E, direct trains	Campanhã (long-distance trains)	33-34 min	€2.30 (Z4) + €0.60 card	about two in three trains; otherwise change at Trindade
Metro E + line D	São Bento, Vila Nova de Gaia	change at Trindade	zones shown at the ticket machine	line D every few minutes
STCP bus 601 / 602	Cordoaria (old town)	depends on traffic	€2.50 from the driver	about every 25 min, 05:30-midnight
STCP night bus 3M	Avenida dos Aliados	depends on traffic	€2.50 from the driver	every 60 min, 00:30-05:30
Airport shuttle coach	Braga · Guimarães	45 min · 40 min, non-stop	shown when booking	many departures a day
Coach	Valença, Vigo (Spain)	about 2 h to Vigo	€14.90 to Vigo	4 a day Mon-Fri, 2 at weekends
Taxi from the rank	Porto, Gaia, Matosinhos	about 20-30 min to the centre	by the meter	24 hours a day

With your own car you do not depend on timetables: car hire at Porto Airport. For groups and late arrivals a fixed transfer price is worth it.

Taxi rank outside the arrivals hall of Porto Airport

Onward from the airport

Getting around from Porto Airport

Four decisions come up in the first minutes after landing at Porto Airport: metro or taxi into town, whether a hire car is worth having, how to reach Braga, Guimarães or the Douro Valley, and where a friend can stop to meet you. Everything at Porto Airport happens in one terminal, with the metro station, the taxi rank, the bus stops and the car hire desks a short walk from the arrivals hall. The four pages below go into the detail.

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Car hire

Collect your car at Porto Airport and compare offers by deposit and by accepted payment card.

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Taxi & transfers

Metered taxis from the rank and pre-booked transfers at a confirmed price to Porto, Gaia, Braga or the Douro.

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Parking

The operator's car parks, online booking and the free Kiss & Fly stops for dropping off and collecting.

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Metro & buses

Metro line E, city buses and direct coaches: journey times and fares to the centre and beyond.

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Live

Live flights at Porto Airport

About 109,600 aircraft movements were counted at Porto Airport in 2025, all on a single runway. The live board shows arrivals and departures at Porto Airport with flight number, airline, origin or destination and current status. Low-cost airlines dominate the schedule, so early-morning departures and late-evening arrivals are the busiest hours of the day.

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Terminal

Terminal and services at Porto Airport

One terminal handles every flight at Porto Airport, which keeps the walk between kerb, check-in and gate short. The building opened in 2006 and is stacked rather than spread out: the arrivals hall and the pick-up kerbside are on the ground floor, and the departures kerbside is on floor 3, reached by a raised access road. Car hire desks, the baggage-wrapping service and the information desks are in the public area before security.

After security the shops, cafés and restaurants of Porto Airport share one departure lounge. The operator's own ANA Lounge is on floor 3 after security, opens from 04:00 to 21:00 and can be entered against a fee, through participating airlines such as TAP Air Portugal, British Airways, Lufthansa or Air France, or with Priority Pass, Dragon Pass and Diners Club International. The operator announced improvement works in the lounge in summer 2026, with some facilities temporarily relocated. A paid Fast Track lane through security operates from 04:00 to 23:00 and is sold online by the operator and by some airlines.

Flights to the United Kingdom and Ireland leave from the non-Schengen area of Porto Airport, which lies behind passport control. The operator recommends being at check-in 90 minutes before a Schengen flight, 120 minutes before a non-Schengen flight within Europe and 180 minutes before an intercontinental flight.

Free and unlimited Wi-Fi is available throughout Porto Airport on the network “_VINCI Airports WiFi”. Left luggage is self-service: 104 lockers in four sizes stand on floor -1, in underground access tunnel 1, and can be used 24 hours a day, from €3.60 for a small locker for three hours according to the operator's price list. The Park Hotel Porto Aeroporto stands about three minutes on foot from the terminal, which helps before a very early departure.

Services in the terminal

Free, unlimited Wi-Fi (“_VINCI Airports WiFi”)
ANA Lounge after security on floor 3, 04:00-21:00
Fast Track security lane, 04:00-23:00
104 self-service luggage lockers on floor -1, open 24 hours
Baggage wrapping before security, 04:00-20:00
Car hire desks of six rental operations before security
Metro station Aeroporto (line E) outside the terminal
Taxi rank outside arrivals, 24 hours a day
Coach stops and airport shuttle desk on the arrivals level
Self check-in kiosks and biometric boarding on designated flights
Hotel about three minutes on foot from the terminal

Departure hall of Porto Airport with check-in desks

Location

Location, access and distances

Porto Airport lies about 11 km north-west of the centre of Porto, at Pedras Rubras, on land shared by the municipalities of Maia, Matosinhos and Vila do Conde. The A41 and A28 motorways and the EN13 national road lead to the terminal, and the A4 towards Vila Real and the Douro is reached by a link road. The A28 follows the coast north to Viana do Castelo and the Spanish border, while the A3 runs inland to Braga and on to Vigo.

Rush hours matter more than distance around Porto Airport: our car-hire partner puts the usual jams in Porto between 08:30 and 10:30 and between 17:30 and 20:00, especially near the Douro bridges. Motorways in Portugal are tolled, and some stretches in the north have no toll booths and are charged electronically only. The distances below are approximate and assume normal traffic.

Vila Nova de Gaia, with the port wine cellars on the south bank of the Douro, is reached from Porto Airport without a car by changing once. Ride line E to Trindade and take line D, the yellow line, towards Vila d'Este; line D crosses the upper deck of the Dom Luís I bridge and stops at Jardim do Morro and General Torres in Gaia. São Bento station, in the old town of Porto, is also on line D, two stops south of Trindade.

Braga, Guimarães and the Douro Valley are the common onward journeys from Porto Airport. Direct airport coaches leave from the arrivals level and need 45 minutes to Braga and 40 minutes to Guimarães. Trains for the Douro line, for Braga and Guimarães and for Lisbon leave from Campanhã station, which about two in three metro trains from Porto Airport reach directly in 33 to 34 minutes. For wine estates, villages in the Minho and the Peneda-Gerês national park a hire car is the practical choice.

Distances from Porto Airport

Porto centre (Avenida dos Aliados) – about 11 km in a straight line, about 16 km by road · about 20-30 min
Matosinhos – about 8 km · about 15 min
Vila Nova de Gaia (wine cellars) – about 20 km · about 25-35 min
Braga – about 50 km · about 40-45 min
Guimarães – about 50 km · about 40 min
Peso da Régua (Douro Valley) – about 110 km · about 1 h 20 min
Vigo (Spain) – about 140 km · about 1 h 30 min
Santiago de Compostela (Spain) – about 230 km · about 2 h 30 min

Address: Aeroporto Francisco Sá Carneiro, Pedras Rubras, 4470-558 Porto, Portugal · Phone: +351 229 432 400 · GPS 41.2481, -8.6814

Apron of Porto Airport with parked aircraft

Parking at Porto Airport

Ten minutes are free in the Kiss & Fly areas of Porto Airport: the Departures kerbside on floor 3 for dropping off and the Arrivals kerbside on the ground floor for collecting.

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Taxi & transfers

Taxis wait at the rank outside the arrivals hall of Porto Airport 24 hours a day and charge by the meter; an official fixed fare for Porto does not exist at any source we could check.

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History & airlines

The history of Porto Airport

Porto Airport opened on 3 December 1945 with a flight from Lisbon and was known for decades as Pedras Rubras, after the locality where the runway was laid out on farmland north of the city. The first international flight took place in 1956, and regular flights to London followed four years later. In 1975 the runway of Porto Airport was lengthened to 3,480 metres, the length the runway still has today.

A new terminal opened in 1990, and in the same year the airport was renamed after Francisco Sá Carneiro, the Portuguese prime minister who died in a plane crash on 4 December 1980 while travelling to Porto. The state handed the airport to ANA Aeroportos de Portugal under a concession in 1998. Between 2003 and 2006 Porto Airport was rebuilt almost from scratch: the present terminal, designed by the Portuguese firm ICQ, came into use in the last quarter of 2006, a few months after metro line E had reached the airport on 27 May 2006.

Low-cost airlines changed the scale of Porto Airport. Ryanair opened a base in 2009, easyJet later stationed aircraft at Porto Airport as well, and on 6 December 2017 Porto Airport counted ten million passengers in a single year for the first time. Traffic reached about 13.1 million in 2019, recovered to about 15.9 million in 2024 and rose to about 16.9 million in 2025. The first eight months of 2026 brought about 12.1 million passengers, 7.1 per cent more than a year earlier, according to the Portuguese statistics institute.

Airlines at Porto Airport

Ryanair
easyJet
TAP Air Portugal
British Airways
Jet2.com
Transavia
Vueling
Wizz Air
Volotea
Eurowings
Lufthansa
SWISS
Air France
KLM
Iberia
Air Europa
Luxair
Brussels Airlines
Turkish Airlines
Azores Airlines
United Airlines
Delta Air Lines

Glass terminal building of Porto Airport by day

Questions & answers

Frequently asked questions about Porto Airport

How do I get from Porto Airport to the city centre?

Metro line E runs from the terminal of Porto Airport to Trindade in 27 to 32 minutes for €2.30 plus a €0.60 card. Taxis from the rank run on the meter, and the STCP buses 601 and 602 go to Cordoaria in the old town.

How often does the metro run from Porto Airport?

About every 15 minutes between 07:00 and 20:00 and about every 20 minutes until 23:00, on the timetable valid since 7 September 2026. The first train leaves Porto Airport at 06:06 on weekdays, the last at 00:42.

Which airlines fly from the UK and Ireland to Porto Airport?

Ryanair, easyJet, British Airways, TAP Air Portugal and Jet2.com fly from UK airports to Porto Airport, and Ryanair flies from Dublin. London Gatwick, Luton and Stansted, Manchester, Birmingham, Bristol and Edinburgh are among the airports on the operator's destination list.

Can I hire a car at Porto Airport with no deposit?

Rarely: according to our partner, car hire in Porto typically requires a deposit, and cars with none are very hard to find. The comparison shows the deposit on every offer, with minimum deposits of about €150 to €300 and a filter for cars that need no credit card.

Where can I drop off a passenger at Porto Airport?

At the Kiss & Fly area on the Departures kerbside, floor 3 of Porto Airport, which is free for up to ten minutes. Passengers are collected at the Kiss & Fly area on the Arrivals kerbside on the ground floor.

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