Lamezia Terme: Calabria's airport, and the bus

Lamezia Terme (SUF) is Calabria's main airport, with 3,049,594¹ passengers in 2025, 12.4%¹ more than in 2024, and a Ferrovie della Calabria bus links it to Catanzaro in 35 to 40 minutes.

SUF, in figures

Lamezia Terme (IATA SUF, ICAO LICA) handled 3,049,594¹ passengers in 2025, up 12.4%¹ on 2024, 20th in Italy and the largest airport in Calabria. SACAL runs it.

It is the reference airport for both Catanzaro and Lamezia Terme, and the one the regional bus network is built around.

Twelve weekday buses to Catanzaro

Ferrovie della Calabria runs 12 weekday departures from Catanzaro's bus station to the airport, the first at 5:50 am and the last at 7:30 pm (2026). Back from the airport, the first bus leaves at 6:50 am and the last at 8:38 pm, printed as 20:38.

Direct runs take 35 to 40 minutes. Runs that call at Germaneto, for the regional government offices and the university, take longer.

The timetable carries period notes that matter more than the times: service is mainly Monday to Saturday with few Sunday runs, and many departures are marked school days only or not in August. The official PDF prints no fare, and we have found none on another primary source.

Reggio Calabria, the smaller airport

Reggio Calabria's airport handled 567,898³ passengers from January to July 2026, 0.5% fewer than a year earlier, with 95,850³ in July alone. Lamezia passed 1,961,184³ in the same seven months.

Reggio's full 2025 total is not verified, so the comparison stays on those seven months. For crossing to Sicily from Reggio or Villa San Giovanni, see ferries to Sicily.

The travelers who come in winter

In 2025, 442,000⁴ American travelers came to Italy to visit family and friends, 7.2% of US visitors, staying 11.9⁴ nights against 8.7 for vacationers. They went to Calabria 25 times more often than American vacationers did, and they traveled in December and January.

If that is your trip, the winter timetable is the one to read: check the school-day markings against the Christmas break, and the few Sunday departures, before you fix a landing time. The rest of the region is on the Calabria page, and the trip itself on roots travel in Calabria.

Onward from Catanzaro

The Catanzaro side of the transfer, with the rack railway and the Lido line, is on getting to Catanzaro. Prices in euros wherever a fare is published.

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