El Salvador International Airport Saint Óscar Arnulfo Romero y Galdámez
San Salvador (San Luis Talpa), 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 SAL 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 (San Luis Talpa).
| Hub | Code | Distance | Flight time |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cancún, Mexico | CUN | 876 km | 1h 30m |
| Tocumen, Panama | PTY | 1,161 km | 1h 52m |
| Mexico City, Mexico | MEX | 1,258 km | 1h 59m |
| Miami, United States | MIA | 1,651 km | 2h 28m |
| Fort Lauderdale, United States | FLL | 1,684 km | 2h 31m |
| Tampa, United States | TPA | 1,751 km | 2h 36m |
| Orlando, United States | MCO | 1,849 km | 2h 43m |
| Bogota, Colombia | BOG | 1,902 km | 2h 47m |
| Houston, United States | IAH | 1,949 km | 2h 50m |
| Austin, United States | AUS | 2,062 km | 2h 59m |
SOURCE·OurAirports + great-circle computation·REVIEWED JUL 2026
Questions about SAL
What is the airport code for San Salvador (San Luis Talpa)?
El Salvador International Airport Saint Óscar Arnulfo Romero y Galdámez uses the IATA code SAL and the ICAO code MSLP. IATA codes are the three-letter ones on your boarding pass; ICAO codes are four letters and used by air traffic control.
Where is El Salvador International Airport Saint Óscar Arnulfo Romero y Galdámez?
It sits at 13.4445° N, 89.0558° W, serving San Salvador (San Luis Talpa) in El Salvador, at an elevation of 101 feet.
Data from OurAirports (public domain) · Wikipedia. Flight times are great-circle estimates for planning only — always check the airline's published schedule.
