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Parking at Katowice Pyrzowice airport
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Pyrzowice lies north of the Silesian conurbation off the S1 expressway, with plenty of room around the terminal.
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Katowice-Pyrzowice (KTW) lies north of the conurbation, off the S1 expressway, and draws passengers from across Silesia and beyond. A driver gets an easy run in on a dual carriageway and plenty of room around the airport — but also a heavy charter season, in which the lots go faster than their number would suggest. Below are the car parks around Pyrzowice and what decides between them.
How to reach Katowice Pyrzowice airport
Driving to Pyrzowice
Provincial road 913 is the road that runs onto the airport grounds, and every other route feeds into it. From Katowice and the south you take the S1 expressway and leave it at the Lotnisko (Airport) junction. Long-distance traffic uses the A1 motorway, which passes directly beside the airport, and exits at Pyrzowice — that is the road from Gdańsk in the north and from the Czech border in the south.
From the west, from Gliwice and on toward Wrocław, the A4 is the natural approach, and national roads 78 and 86/S86 complete the local grid toward Katowice. With that many options, a hold-up on one approach rarely blocks the whole drive; the airport is about 33 km north of central Katowice, so plan it as a suburban run rather than a trip across town.
The AP express bus
Without a car, the AP express line runs between Katowice Sądowa and Pyrzowice Port Lotniczy on an ordinary ZTM ticket. Six further metropolitan and local ZTM lines reach the airport, covering Gliwice, Zabrze and Bytom on the M14, Sosnowiec, Będzin and Mierzęcice on the M19, and Piekary Śląskie on the M116; Flixbus coaches connect Pyrzowice with Kraków and Częstochowa.
The train reaches the airport, but not from Katowice. Pyrzowice Lotnisko station opened on 10 December 2023, about 500 m from the terminals on revitalised line 182, and is served by Koleje Śląskie line S9 between Częstochowa and Tarnowskie Góry. A direct train from Katowice still does not exist.
Arriving at the Pyrzowice site
There are several ways in, but the last exit is where drivers go wrong, because the signage talks about Pyrzowice rather than Katowice — the airport's name and the name on the boards do not match. On paper the airport belongs to Pyrzowice, a village straddling the communes of Ożarowice and Mierzęcice.
A second decision comes just before the entrance: departures and arrivals use different buildings, so which kerb you want depends on the direction of the flight. If the car is staying at an off-airport site, set navigation to that address from the start: entrances to those sites open onto the local roads of Pyrzowice and Ożarowice, whereas a route planned to the terminal takes you to the airport buildings themselves.
Terminals and the departures door
Pyrzowice has several connected terminals, and it is the one airport on this list where checking the terminal letter before you leave home actually pays. Check-in for charters and scheduled flights can sit in different parts of the complex, and a shuttle driver will pull up wherever you tell him to.
Arrivals all come out in one place, so the way back is simpler than the way out. The shuttle bay is right by the exit, and the forecourt is open enough that manoeuvring is no problem. Give the crew your flight number and terminal when you book — the better sites set the return run from exactly that.
Charters and the summer peak
Pyrzowice is one of the strongest charter airports in the country, and the car parks show it. Between June and September the traffic concentrates into a few days of the week, and the lots around the airport book out a week ahead. Stays here run long, because a charter usually means a week or two, so spaces turn over more slowly than at a business airport.
Winter brings a second, shorter peak around the school holidays and ski trips. More cars then arrive with roof racks and boxes — which matters, because some covered spaces carry a height restriction while an open site will take any size.
Close to the terminal or cheap
The zones the airport runs split into those by the hall and those further out, and the daily gap between them is plain. For a short trip the nearest zone is simply convenient. Over a two-week charter the advantage of the cheaper zones and the private sites compounds with every day.
The off-airport sites add things a barrier-controlled zone does not have: staff at the entrance, a wash, a charger for an electric car, a child seat in the shuttle. If you are flying with children or in an EV, it is usually those extras rather than the rate itself that settle the choice.
Paying and booking
You pay for the booking online, at the moment you make it. BLIK, a payment card and an instant bank transfer are all accepted, the same methods you know from online shops. None of them costs more than the others, and there is no extra deposit collected at the barrier.
You pay the car park's price, with no booking or service fee. The price shown when you book is the final price for the whole stay. It covers the space and the transfer where the operator includes it in the rate; extra services are your own choice and appear as separate lines on the receipt. Once paid, you get an e-mail confirmation with a booking number, and that is your document on arrival.
Free cancellation runs until the cut-off set by the car park operator. You can see that cut-off on the car park's page before you pay. After a cancellation the money travels back the way it came, to the account or the card used at checkout.
What a secure lot means
"Secure" is a set of specifics, not a slogan. CCTV means cameras covering the bays, not just the gate. Fencing means an enclosed site with a controlled entrance. Lighting decides whether picking your car up at night is pleasant. The operator's policy defines what he answers for and what your own insurance covers, so ask about its scope before you leave the car.
Car keys are a separate question. Some lots ask you to leave them so they can shuffle cars on a tight site, others never touch the vehicle. Both practices are normal, but they differ in consequences: if the keys stay, take your documents and your garage remote out of the car, and leave the glovebox empty.
Getting the car ready
Take out everything valuable or personal: the laptop, documents, chargers, the road-toll device. In winter, top up the battery and switch to winter screen wash, because a car standing in frost for a week starts worse than one driven daily. In summer, park away from direct sun on the dashboard if the lot lets you choose.
Check your car's height if you drive a van, an SUV with a roof box or a bike rack on the roof. Multi-storey car parks at the terminals have a height barrier, and a taller car simply will not fit under it. Open-air lots off the airport grounds usually have no such limit — the car park's page tells you whether it is roofed or open.
Arriving at the car park
On arrival you give your booking number or show the confirmation e-mail. Staff note the registration plate, point you to a bay and, where the lot works that way, take the keys. It pays to enter the plate when booking, because then arriving comes down to the gate opening.
The transfer to the terminal usually leaves right after you park, and you order the return leg by phone once you have your luggage. The number is in the booking confirmation, and it is worth saving it on your phone before you fly, along with the site address — nobody wants to hunt through e-mail after a night landing.
Frequently asked questions
How far is the airport from Katowice, and how do I get into the city?
The airport is about 33 km north of central Katowice, so the journey is a suburban drive rather than a run across town. By road it is provincial road 913 out to the S1 and its Lotnisko junction, or the A1 at Pyrzowice. Without a car, the AP express bus links Pyrzowice Port Lotniczy with Katowice Sądowa in roughly 45 minutes on a standard ZTM ticket.
Is there a train from the airport, and does it reach Katowice?
There is a station, Pyrzowice Lotnisko, open since 10 December 2023 and about 500 m from the terminals on revitalised line 182. Koleje Śląskie line S9 serves it between Częstochowa and Tarnowskie Góry: 57 minutes from Częstochowa, 22 from Zawiercie, 17 from Tarnowskie Góry, with 20 trains a day. There is still no direct train from Katowice.
Which terminal will my flight use?
It depends on direction, not on airline. Terminal A handles non-Schengen departures, which includes the charter flights to Turkey and Egypt; Terminal B has handled Schengen departures since July 2007. All arrivals come into Terminal C, open since 18 June 2015. Tell whoever is driving you which building applies, because departures and arrivals are separate.
Where should someone collecting me by car wait?
At Terminal C — it is the arrivals building and handles nothing else, so there is no ambiguity once your driver knows the layout. They will come in on provincial road 913, off either the S1 at the Lotnisko junction or the A1 at Pyrzowice. Drop-off for departures happens at Terminal A or B instead.
I am renting a car here — which roads lead out toward Silesia and Kraków?
Everything starts on provincial road 913. From there the S1 expressway runs past the airport toward Katowice and the south, the A1 motorway passes directly beside the site on the Gdańsk to Czech border axis, and the A4 takes you west through Gliwice or on toward Kraków and Wrocław. National roads 78 and 86/S86 complete the local grid.
Can I leave a car here for a fortnight in the school holidays?
That is the typical stay at this airport. Charters made up 51.2% of 2025 traffic and a holiday from Pyrzowice usually runs 7 to 14 days, so parking around the site is set up for weeks rather than hours. August 2025 saw 978,903 passengers against 355,568 in February, so the roads and terminals are busiest exactly when those long stays begin.
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