Santa Maria Airport
Santa Maria, 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 RIA to the nearest major hubs
Great-circle distance and estimated flight time to the closest large international airports — the realistic connecting points from Santa Maria.
| Hub | Code | Distance | Flight time |
|---|---|---|---|
| Buenos Aires (Ezeiza), Argentina | EZE | 728 km | 1h 19m |
| São Paulo, Brazil | GRU | 1,001 km | 1h 40m |
| Rio De Janeiro, Brazil | GIG | 1,292 km | 2h 02m |
| Santiago, Chile | SCL | 1,669 km | 2h 30m |
| Lima, Peru | LIM | 3,117 km | 4h 18m |
| Bogota, Colombia | BOG | 4,405 km | 5h 53m |
| Tocumen, Panama | PTY | 5,114 km | 6h 46m |
| Cancún, Mexico | CUN | 6,668 km | 8h 42m |
| Cape Town, South Africa | CPT | 6,701 km | 8h 45m |
| Miami, United States | MIA | 6,792 km | 8h 51m |
SOURCE·OurAirports + great-circle computation·REVIEWED JUL 2026
Questions about RIA
What is the airport code for Santa Maria?
Santa Maria Airport uses the IATA code RIA and the ICAO code SBSM. IATA codes are the three-letter ones on your boarding pass; ICAO codes are four letters and used by air traffic control.
Where is Santa Maria Airport?
It sits at 29.7114° S, 53.6882° W, serving Santa Maria in Brazil, at an elevation of 287 feet.
Data from OurAirports (public domain) · Wikipedia. Flight times are great-circle estimates for planning only — always check the airline's published schedule.
