Piloto Civil Norberto Fernández International Airport
Rio Gallegos, Argentina — 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 RGL to the nearest major hubs
Great-circle distance and estimated flight time to the closest large international airports — the realistic connecting points from Rio Gallegos.
| Hub | Code | Distance | Flight time |
|---|---|---|---|
| Santiago, Chile | SCL | 2,029 km | 2h 56m |
| Buenos Aires (Ezeiza), Argentina | EZE | 2,056 km | 2h 58m |
| São Paulo, Brazil | GRU | 3,691 km | 5h 00m |
| Rio De Janeiro, Brazil | GIG | 3,903 km | 5h 16m |
| Lima, Peru | LIM | 4,458 km | 5h 57m |
| Bogota, Colombia | BOG | 6,278 km | 8h 13m |
| Tocumen, Panama | PTY | 6,816 km | 8h 53m |
| Cape Town, South Africa | CPT | 6,986 km | 9h 06m |
| Christchurch, New Zealand | CHC | 7,887 km | 10h 13m |
| Queenstown, New Zealand | ZQN | 7,918 km | 10h 15m |
SOURCE·OurAirports + great-circle computation·REVIEWED JUL 2026
Questions about RGL
What is the airport code for Rio Gallegos?
Piloto Civil Norberto Fernández International Airport uses the IATA code RGL and the ICAO code SAWG. IATA codes are the three-letter ones on your boarding pass; ICAO codes are four letters and used by air traffic control.
Where is Piloto Civil Norberto Fernández International Airport?
It sits at 51.6088° S, 69.3089° W, serving Rio Gallegos in Argentina, at an elevation of 61 feet.
Data from OurAirports (public domain) · Wikipedia. Flight times are great-circle estimates for planning only — always check the airline's published schedule.
