Rio Grande do Norte/São Gonçalo do Amarante–Governador Aluízio Alves International Airport
Natal, Brazil — 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 NAT to the nearest major hubs
Great-circle distance and estimated flight time to the closest large international airports — the realistic connecting points from Natal.
| Hub | Code | Distance | Flight time |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rio De Janeiro, Brazil | GIG | 2,075 km | 3h 00m |
| São Paulo, Brazil | GRU | 2,296 km | 3h 16m |
| Buenos Aires (Ezeiza), Argentina | EZE | 4,011 km | 5h 24m |
| Accra, Ghana | ACC | 4,107 km | 5h 31m |
| Bogota, Colombia | BOG | 4,461 km | 5h 58m |
| Lagos, Nigeria | LOS | 4,508 km | 6h 01m |
| Lima, Peru | LIM | 4,634 km | 6h 11m |
| Santiago, Chile | SCL | 4,773 km | 6h 21m |
| Abuja, Nigeria | ABV | 5,002 km | 6h 38m |
| Tocumen, Panama | PTY | 5,150 km | 6h 49m |
SOURCE·OurAirports + great-circle computation·REVIEWED JUL 2026
Questions about NAT
What is the airport code for Natal?
Rio Grande do Norte/São Gonçalo do Amarante–Governador Aluízio Alves International Airport uses the IATA code NAT and the ICAO code SBSG. IATA codes are the three-letter ones on your boarding pass; ICAO codes are four letters and used by air traffic control.
Where is Rio Grande do Norte/São Gonçalo do Amarante–Governador Aluízio Alves International Airport?
It sits at 5.7698° S, 35.3666° W, serving Natal in Brazil, at an elevation of 273 feet.
Data from OurAirports (public domain) · Wikipedia. Flight times are great-circle estimates for planning only — always check the airline's published schedule.
