Recife/Guararapes - Gilberto Freyre International Airport
Recife, 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 REC to the nearest major hubs
Great-circle distance and estimated flight time to the closest large international airports — the realistic connecting points from Recife.
| Hub | Code | Distance | Flight time |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rio De Janeiro, Brazil | GIG | 1,859 km | 2h 44m |
| São Paulo, Brazil | GRU | 2,100 km | 3h 02m |
| Buenos Aires (Ezeiza), Argentina | EZE | 3,822 km | 5h 10m |
| Accra, Ghana | ACC | 4,146 km | 5h 34m |
| Lagos, Nigeria | LOS | 4,545 km | 6h 04m |
| Bogota, Colombia | BOG | 4,578 km | 6h 06m |
| Santiago, Chile | SCL | 4,627 km | 6h 10m |
| Lima, Peru | LIM | 4,635 km | 6h 11m |
| Abuja, Nigeria | ABV | 5,047 km | 6h 41m |
| Tocumen, Panama | PTY | 5,283 km | 6h 59m |
SOURCE·OurAirports + great-circle computation·REVIEWED JUL 2026
Questions about REC
What is the airport code for Recife?
Recife/Guararapes - Gilberto Freyre International Airport uses the IATA code REC and the ICAO code SBRF. IATA codes are the three-letter ones on your boarding pass; ICAO codes are four letters and used by air traffic control.
Where is Recife/Guararapes - Gilberto Freyre International Airport?
It sits at 8.1275° S, 34.9230° W, serving Recife in Brazil, at an elevation of 33 feet.
Data from OurAirports (public domain) · Wikipedia. Flight times are great-circle estimates for planning only — always check the airline's published schedule.
