Johan Adolf Pengel International Airport
Paramaribo, Suriname — 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 PBM to the nearest major hubs
Great-circle distance and estimated flight time to the closest large international airports — the realistic connecting points from Paramaribo.
| Hub | Code | Distance | Flight time |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bogota, Colombia | BOG | 2,101 km | 3h 02m |
| Tocumen, Panama | PTY | 2,698 km | 3h 46m |
| Lima, Peru | LIM | 3,107 km | 4h 17m |
| São Paulo, Brazil | GRU | 3,348 km | 4h 35m |
| Rio De Janeiro, Brazil | GIG | 3,400 km | 4h 39m |
| Miami, United States | MIA | 3,499 km | 4h 46m |
| Fort Lauderdale, United States | FLL | 3,506 km | 4h 46m |
| Orlando, United States | MCO | 3,755 km | 5h 05m |
| Tampa, United States | TPA | 3,821 km | 5h 10m |
| Cancún, Mexico | CUN | 3,829 km | 5h 11m |
SOURCE·OurAirports + great-circle computation·REVIEWED JUL 2026
Questions about PBM
What is the airport code for Paramaribo?
Johan Adolf Pengel International Airport uses the IATA code PBM and the ICAO code SMJP. IATA codes are the three-letter ones on your boarding pass; ICAO codes are four letters and used by air traffic control.
Where is Johan Adolf Pengel International Airport?
It sits at 5.4528° N, 55.1878° W, serving Paramaribo in Suriname, at an elevation of 59 feet.
Data from OurAirports (public domain) · Wikipedia. Flight times are great-circle estimates for planning only — always check the airline's published schedule.
