Rio Galeão – Tom Jobim International Airport
Rio De Janeiro, 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 GIG
| Destination | Code | Distance | Flight time |
|---|---|---|---|
| São Paulo, Brazil | GRU | 336 km | 50m |
| Buenos Aires (Ezeiza), Argentina | EZE | 1,996 km | 2h 54m |
| Santiago, Chile | SCL | 2,934 km | 4h 04m |
| Lima, Peru | LIM | 3,777 km | 5h 07m |
| Bogota, Colombia | BOG | 4,541 km | 6h 04m |
| Tocumen, Panama | PTY | 5,295 km | 7h 00m |
| Accra, Ghana | ACC | 5,648 km | 7h 26m |
| Lagos, Nigeria | LOS | 6,026 km | 7h 54m |
| Cape Town, South Africa | CPT | 6,087 km | 7h 59m |
| Abuja, Nigeria | ABV | 6,537 km | 8h 32m |
| Miami, United States | MIA | 6,717 km | 8h 46m |
| Fort Lauderdale, United States | FLL | 6,732 km | 8h 47m |
| Cancún, Mexico | CUN | 6,792 km | 8h 51m |
| Orlando, United States | MCO | 7,007 km | 9h 07m |
| London, United Kingdom | LHR | 9,253 km | 11h 55m |
| New York, United States | JFK | 7,729 km | 10h 01m |
| Los Angeles, United States | LAX | 10,139 km | 13h 01m |
| Dubai, United Arab Emirates | DXB | 11,884 km | 15h 11m |
| Paris (Roissy-en-France, Val-d'Oise), France | CDG | 9,184 km | 11h 50m |
| Amsterdam, Netherlands | AMS | 9,560 km | 12h 18m |
| Frankfurt am Main, Germany | FRA | 9,567 km | 12h 18m |
| Singapore, Singapore | SIN | 15,750 km | 19h 59m |
| Hong Kong, Hong Kong | HKG | 17,672 km | 22h 22m |
| Narita, Japan | NRT | 18,532 km | 23h 26m |
| Seoul, South Korea | ICN | 18,111 km | 22h 55m |
| Istanbul, Turkey | IST | 10,272 km | 13h 11m |
| Doha, Qatar | DOH | 11,526 km | 14h 44m |
| Sydney (Mascot), Australia | SYD | 13,522 km | 17h 13m |
| Chicago, United States | ORD | 8,541 km | 11h 02m |
| Beijing, China | PEK | 17,318 km | 21h 56m |
SOURCE·OurAirports + great-circle computation·REVIEWED JUL 2026
Questions about GIG
What is the airport code for Rio De Janeiro?
Rio Galeão – Tom Jobim International Airport uses the IATA code GIG and the ICAO code SBGL. 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 Galeão – Tom Jobim International Airport?
It sits at 22.8100° S, 43.2506° W, serving Rio De Janeiro in Brazil, at an elevation of 28 feet.
Data from OurAirports (public domain) · Wikipedia. Flight times are great-circle estimates for planning only — always check the airline's published schedule.
