Juan Santamaría International Airport
San José (Alajuela), Costa Rica — 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 SJO to the nearest major hubs
Great-circle distance and estimated flight time to the closest large international airports — the realistic connecting points from San José (Alajuela).
| Hub | Code | Distance | Flight time |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tocumen, Panama | PTY | 539 km | 1h 05m |
| Bogota, Colombia | BOG | 1,256 km | 1h 59m |
| Cancún, Mexico | CUN | 1,261 km | 1h 59m |
| Miami, United States | MIA | 1,805 km | 2h 40m |
| Fort Lauderdale, United States | FLL | 1,838 km | 2h 42m |
| Mexico City, Mexico | MEX | 1,910 km | 2h 48m |
| Tampa, United States | TPA | 2,007 km | 2h 55m |
| Orlando, United States | MCO | 2,072 km | 3h 00m |
| Houston, United States | IAH | 2,505 km | 3h 32m |
| Lima, Peru | LIM | 2,570 km | 3h 37m |
SOURCE·OurAirports + great-circle computation·REVIEWED JUL 2026
Other airports in Costa Rica
Questions about SJO
What is the airport code for San José (Alajuela)?
Juan Santamaría International Airport uses the IATA code SJO and the ICAO code MROC. IATA codes are the three-letter ones on your boarding pass; ICAO codes are four letters and used by air traffic control.
Where is Juan Santamaría International Airport?
It sits at 9.9939° N, 84.2088° W, serving San José (Alajuela) in Costa Rica, at an elevation of 3,021 feet.
Data from OurAirports (public domain) · Wikipedia. Flight times are great-circle estimates for planning only — always check the airline's published schedule.
