ALMERIA AIRPORT (LEI) (LEI) INFORMATION

Almería Airport is located in the province of Almería in the autonomous region of Andalusia, Spain. The province capital is the city of Almería which is located 9 km/5.6mi west of the airport. Almeriá Airport is located in the south-east area of Spain, only 500 m/1640 ft from the Mediterranean Sea.

The airport is a public single, passenger terminal airport with one asphalt runway (3,200 m/10,499 ft) and it serves Costa de Almería (the Almería coast) including Almería city. In 2018 it saw 992,043 passengers move through it. Almeria Airport is owned and managed by Aena, which is the world's largest airport manager. Aena owns and manages 46 airports and 2 helipads in Spain.

Almería Airport has IATA code LEI, and ICAO code LEAM.

LEI Airport serves airlines easyJet, Iberia Regional, and Vueling all year around with flights to and from London-Gatwick, Madrid, Melilla, Seville, and Barcelona. It also serves several airlines, including Ryanair, TUI Airways, TUI fly Belgium, Smartwings, Jet2.com, Luxair, Transavia, and Iberia Regional with seasonal flights to and from Palma de Mallorca, Valencia, Bilbao, Birmingham, Bristol, Leeds/Bradford, Manchester, Luxembourg, Charleroi, Dublin, London-Stansted, Prague, Rotterdam/The Hague, Antwerp, and Brussels.

Transfers at Almería Airport (LEI)

Transfer services include car rental, the local bus Surbus linea 30, and taxis.

Car rental desks can be found in the public area of the arrivals hall. See all car rental companies at Almeria Airport.

Taxis and the bus stop are located outside the arrivals area of the passenger terminal. The taxi rank is right outside on the curbside, while the bus stop can be found to the right after the exit.

See more details about Taxis to and from Almeria Airport.

More information about buses to and from Almeria Airport.

Parking at Almería Airport (LEI)

The airport has 679 parking spaces located in the General Car Park opposite the terminal's exits and entrances. See more information about short and long term parking at Almería Airport.

PRM Services at Almería Airport (LEI)

The airport offers free of charge assistance to people with reduced mobility. The assistance has to be requested at least 48 hours prior to the flight's departure time, either via the airline or the travel agency at the time of booking, or via Aena's website, app or phone.

There are toilets available for people with reduced mobility.

Other services at Almería Airport (LEI)

The airport offers free of charge WiFi to all visitors and travellers. There is an ATM in the public area of the arrivals hall, but no currency exchange service is available.

A pharmacy can be found in the public area, and there are heart defibrillators available if needed.

A nursing room can be found next to one of the entrances to the departure area, but there is no children's play area at the airport.

There are two places where travellers can eat, one in the public area of the ground floor and one in the airside departure area of the first floor.

A gift shop is located on the first floor, in the departure area.

Lost and Found is located in the public arrivals area, and there also is a Tourist Information Desk and an Airport Information Desk located in the public area.

Smoking at Almería Airport (LEI)

There is a big terrace located on the first floor, after the security control, where travellers can smoke while enjoying something to eat or drink and watch the sea view.

Other information about Almería Airport (LEI)

The airport does not offer a fast track service, and it does not have a worship/prayer/meditation room, or an animal relief area.

Useful Contact Details in Spain

In the case of an emergency in Spain where the police, the fire brigade or an ambulance is required, call 112. The operator should be able to speak English.

There are several hospitals in Almería.

Closest International Airport to Almería Airport (LEI)

The closest international airport to LEI is Federico Garcia Lorca Granada-Jaén Airport located 175 km/109 mi away from Málaga-Costa del Sol Airport (AGP) at a distance of 216 km/134 mi from Almería Airport.

History of Almería Airport

Even though Almería's Town Hall began constructing a municipal aerodrome in the late 1920's, due to aeronautical activities beginning to take place in the city back in 1911, which was inaugurated in 1932, the first real initiative to provide the city with an airport would not take place until 1947 as there was a need to break the city's secular isolation as well as for the exporting of agricultural produce.

It took until 1968 for plans to be approved and the airport to be built and it was inaugurated on February 6th that year. The location is in the area now known as El Alquián.

Air traffic first began with an Almería-Madrid route at the frequency of 2-3 flights per week, but by April the frequency was up to daily flights. In November flights to Murcia and Barcelona were established and later on flights to Alicante and Barcelona were added.

In July of 1970 the airport inaugurated the first international route with the Almería-Valencia-Paris flights, operating on Sundays, and it was followed by routes to Germany and to England. An Almería-London route, operated by British Airways, began in 1974, and the first charter operations took place that summer.

The passenger terminal at Almería Airport was remodelled in 1995. The airport also has a cargo terminal that opened in 2002.

About Almería, Andalusia, Spain

Almería was founded in 995 as the humble trading port of Pechina and was known as Al-Mariyya Bajjana by Abd-ar-Rahman III and it has undergone many various rulers, and earthquakes, that shaped the city's history, business and nature since.

The city and the Almería province sits in the south-east area of Spain, and it's one of eight provinces in the region known as Andalusia which takes up the southern part of Spain. Andalusia's capital city is Seville, and it also includes Costa del Sol (the Malaga province), and the Sierra Nevada mountains (Granada province) which are other popular tourist locations in the region.

Almería city had a population of 196,851 in 2018, while the province had a population of 701,688 in 2014.

Because of the city's vast history there are plenty of historic sites to explore when visiting Almería, including the Alcazaba, the second largest medieval Muslim fortresses in Andalusia (the Alhambra in Granada being the largest and most famous one), and the Almería Air Raid Shelters which is an underground gallery for civilian protection established during the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939).

Another site worth visiting is the Cathedral, which was built as a mosque, later turned into a Christian church, with its fortress-like appearance due to the towers built to protect it from Mediterranean pirates. It was, just like the Alcazaba, destroyed in an earthquake in 1522, but it was rebuilt during the 16th century in a Renaissance style keeping some of its original features.

The Museum of Almería includes mostly findings from the Alcazaba that dates back to prehistoric, Iberic, Roman, Greek and Muslim ages.

The area surrounding the city includes Europe's driest area which is part of the Cabo de Gata-Nijar Natural Park, which also includes coves and caves only reachable from the sea. The area's nature include the Taberna Desert where famous western movies such as The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly, For a Few Dollars More, and a Fistful of Dollars were shot, as well as parts of movies like Patton, Lawrence of Arabia, the 1982 Conan the Barbarian, and Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade.

The city offers a wide variety of bars, cafés, tapas bars, and restaurants, night clubs and more. There is also a main shopping street, and a harbor, and of course a beach, with plenty of other beaches in the province.

Weather in Almería, Andalusia, Spain

Almería only has 26 days of precipitation per year with a yearly 200 mm/7.9in of rain, and an annual temperature of 19.1 °C/66.4 °F. The climate is a hot semi-arid climate that borders on a hot desert climate and the city is the closest in Europe to have a hot desert climate.

The summers are hot and dry and the city qualifies as the 3d warmest city in Continental Europe, the second in the Andalusian region after Seville, and Athens, with average temperatures that vary between around 20 ºC/68 ºF at the lowest and just over 30 ºC/86 ºF at the highest during the summer months of June, July and August. Late June to early September is the warmest period. Record high temperatures measure around 40 ºC/104 ºF during these months.a

The winters lasts from the end of November to the end of March and it sees average temperatures that vary from just over around 9 ºC/48 ºF at the lowest and around 20 ºC/68 ºF at the highest, with the record low being 0.1 ºC/32.18 ºF (temperatures below have never been recorded).

These months see the most precipitation with around 3 days of rain per month.

Almería Airport (LEI) Contacts

Address: Carretera Nijar - Alquián, 04130 Almería, Almería, Spain

General Phone: (+34) 91 321 1000.

General Contact Form: https://serviciostelematicos.aena.es/consultas/#/

Lost and Found Phone: (+34) 91 321 1000

Lost and Found Email: vlc.objetoshallados@aena.es

Official Website: https://www.aena.es/en/almeria.html

Local Information

Drive on: Right

Electricity: 230V/50Hz

Plug: C, E

Currency: Euro, €