Marechal Cunha Machado International Airport
São Luís, 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 SLZ to the nearest major hubs
Great-circle distance and estimated flight time to the closest large international airports — the realistic connecting points from São Luís.
| Hub | Code | Distance | Flight time |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rio De Janeiro, Brazil | GIG | 2,251 km | 3h 13m |
| São Paulo, Brazil | GRU | 2,330 km | 3h 19m |
| Bogota, Colombia | BOG | 3,421 km | 4h 40m |
| Lima, Peru | LIM | 3,770 km | 5h 06m |
| Buenos Aires (Ezeiza), Argentina | EZE | 3,877 km | 5h 14m |
| Tocumen, Panama | PTY | 4,105 km | 5h 31m |
| Santiago, Chile | SCL | 4,399 km | 5h 53m |
| Accra, Ghana | ACC | 4,978 km | 6h 36m |
| Miami, United States | MIA | 5,000 km | 6h 38m |
| Fort Lauderdale, United States | FLL | 5,006 km | 6h 38m |
SOURCE·OurAirports + great-circle computation·REVIEWED JUL 2026
Questions about SLZ
What is the airport code for São Luís?
Marechal Cunha Machado International Airport uses the IATA code SLZ and the ICAO code SBSL. IATA codes are the three-letter ones on your boarding pass; ICAO codes are four letters and used by air traffic control.
Where is Marechal Cunha Machado International Airport?
It sits at 2.5864° S, 44.2350° W, serving São Luís in Brazil, at an elevation of 178 feet.
Data from OurAirports (public domain) · Wikipedia. Flight times are great-circle estimates for planning only — always check the airline's published schedule.
