El Alto International Airport
La Paz / El Alto, Bolivia — flight times and distances to airports around the world, computed from published coordinates.
SOURCE·OurAirports + great-circle computation·REVIEWED JUL 2026
How this is worked out
- Both airports' coordinates come from OurAirports, a public-domain dataset — nothing is scraped from another flight site.
- Distance is a great-circle (haversine) figure on a mean earth radius of 6,371.0088 km, so it is the shortest path over the surface, not a road distance.
- Airborne time is that distance divided by 805 km/h, a representative jet cruise speed.
- A flat 25 minutes is added for pushback, taxi, climb, descent and taxi-in, which is why no hop is ever half an hour gate to gate.
- Winds, aircraft type and airline schedule padding are not modelled, and every route page shows the same distance at four cruise speeds so you can see what that assumption is worth.
gate-to-gate hours = 0.42 + distance km / 805
SOURCE·OurAirports + great-circle computation·REVIEWED JUL 2026
Flight times from LPB to the nearest major hubs
Great-circle distance and estimated flight time to the closest large international airports — the realistic connecting points from La Paz / El Alto.
| Hub | Code | Distance | Flight time |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lima, Peru | LIM | 1,083 km | 1h 46m |
| Santiago, Chile | SCL | 1,895 km | 2h 46m |
| Buenos Aires (Ezeiza), Argentina | EZE | 2,251 km | 3h 13m |
| São Paulo, Brazil | GRU | 2,393 km | 3h 24m |
| Bogota, Colombia | BOG | 2,448 km | 3h 28m |
| Rio De Janeiro, Brazil | GIG | 2,700 km | 3h 46m |
| Tocumen, Panama | PTY | 3,100 km | 4h 16m |
| Cancún, Mexico | CUN | 4,646 km | 6h 12m |
| Miami, United States | MIA | 4,883 km | 6h 29m |
| Fort Lauderdale, United States | FLL | 4,909 km | 6h 31m |
SOURCE·OurAirports + great-circle computation·REVIEWED JUL 2026
Questions about LPB
What is the airport code for La Paz / El Alto?
El Alto International Airport uses the IATA code LPB and the ICAO code SLLP. IATA codes are the three-letter ones on your boarding pass; ICAO codes are four letters and used by air traffic control.
Where is El Alto International Airport?
It sits at 16.5103° S, 68.1894° W, serving La Paz / El Alto in Bolivia, at an elevation of 13,355 feet.
Data from OurAirports (public domain) · Wikipedia. Flight times are great-circle estimates for planning only — always check the airline's published schedule.
