Deputado Luiz Eduardo Magalhães International Airport
Salvador, 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 SSA to the nearest major hubs
Great-circle distance and estimated flight time to the closest large international airports — the realistic connecting points from Salvador.
| Hub | Code | Distance | Flight time |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rio De Janeiro, Brazil | GIG | 1,218 km | 1h 56m |
| São Paulo, Brazil | GRU | 1,452 km | 2h 13m |
| Buenos Aires (Ezeiza), Argentina | EZE | 3,174 km | 4h 22m |
| Santiago, Chile | SCL | 3,997 km | 5h 23m |
| Lima, Peru | LIM | 4,209 km | 5h 39m |
| Bogota, Colombia | BOG | 4,415 km | 5h 54m |
| Accra, Ghana | ACC | 4,691 km | 6h 15m |
| Lagos, Nigeria | LOS | 5,085 km | 6h 44m |
| Tocumen, Panama | PTY | 5,151 km | 6h 49m |
| Abuja, Nigeria | ABV | 5,593 km | 7h 22m |
SOURCE·OurAirports + great-circle computation·REVIEWED JUL 2026
Questions about SSA
What is the airport code for Salvador?
Deputado Luiz Eduardo Magalhães International Airport uses the IATA code SSA and the ICAO code SBSV. IATA codes are the three-letter ones on your boarding pass; ICAO codes are four letters and used by air traffic control.
Where is Deputado Luiz Eduardo Magalhães International Airport?
It sits at 12.9086° S, 38.3225° W, serving Salvador in Brazil, at an elevation of 64 feet.
Data from OurAirports (public domain) · Wikipedia. Flight times are great-circle estimates for planning only — always check the airline's published schedule.
