Simón Bolívar International Airport
Santa Marta, Colombia — 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 SMR to the nearest major hubs
Great-circle distance and estimated flight time to the closest large international airports — the realistic connecting points from Santa Marta.
| Hub | Code | Distance | Flight time |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tocumen, Panama | PTY | 608 km | 1h 11m |
| Bogota, Colombia | BOG | 714 km | 1h 18m |
| Cancún, Mexico | CUN | 1,742 km | 2h 35m |
| Miami, United States | MIA | 1,752 km | 2h 36m |
| Fort Lauderdale, United States | FLL | 1,775 km | 2h 38m |
| Orlando, United States | MCO | 2,061 km | 2h 59m |
| Tampa, United States | TPA | 2,065 km | 2h 59m |
| Lima, Peru | LIM | 2,593 km | 3h 38m |
| Atlanta, United States | ATL | 2,710 km | 3h 47m |
| Charlotte, United States | CLT | 2,764 km | 3h 51m |
SOURCE·OurAirports + great-circle computation·REVIEWED JUL 2026
Questions about SMR
What is the airport code for Santa Marta?
Simón Bolívar International Airport uses the IATA code SMR and the ICAO code SKSM. IATA codes are the three-letter ones on your boarding pass; ICAO codes are four letters and used by air traffic control.
Where is Simón Bolívar International Airport?
It sits at 11.1196° N, 74.2306° W, serving Santa Marta in Colombia, at an elevation of 22 feet.
Data from OurAirports (public domain) · Wikipedia. Flight times are great-circle estimates for planning only — always check the airline's published schedule.
