Ilopango International Airport
San Salvador, El Salvador — 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 ILS to the nearest major hubs
Great-circle distance and estimated flight time to the closest large international airports — the realistic connecting points from San Salvador.
| Hub | Code | Distance | Flight time |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cancún, Mexico | CUN | 850 km | 1h 29m |
| Tocumen, Panama | PTY | 1,179 km | 1h 53m |
| Mexico City, Mexico | MEX | 1,237 km | 1h 57m |
| Miami, United States | MIA | 1,631 km | 2h 27m |
| Fort Lauderdale, United States | FLL | 1,663 km | 2h 29m |
| Tampa, United States | TPA | 1,728 km | 2h 34m |
| Orlando, United States | MCO | 1,826 km | 2h 41m |
| Houston, United States | IAH | 1,920 km | 2h 48m |
| Bogota, Colombia | BOG | 1,922 km | 2h 48m |
| Austin, United States | AUS | 2,033 km | 2h 57m |
SOURCE·OurAirports + great-circle computation·REVIEWED JUL 2026
Questions about ILS
What is the airport code for San Salvador?
Ilopango International Airport uses the IATA code ILS and the ICAO code MSSS. IATA codes are the three-letter ones on your boarding pass; ICAO codes are four letters and used by air traffic control.
Where is Ilopango International Airport?
It sits at 13.6995° N, 89.1199° W, serving San Salvador in El Salvador, at an elevation of 2,027 feet.
Data from OurAirports (public domain) · Wikipedia. Flight times are great-circle estimates for planning only — always check the airline's published schedule.
