Pichoy Airport
Valdivia, Chile — 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 ZAL to the nearest major hubs
Great-circle distance and estimated flight time to the closest large international airports — the realistic connecting points from Valdivia.
| Hub | Code | Distance | Flight time |
|---|---|---|---|
| Santiago, Chile | SCL | 725 km | 1h 19m |
| Buenos Aires (Ezeiza), Argentina | EZE | 1,393 km | 2h 09m |
| São Paulo, Brazil | GRU | 3,081 km | 4h 15m |
| Lima, Peru | LIM | 3,098 km | 4h 16m |
| Rio De Janeiro, Brazil | GIG | 3,374 km | 4h 37m |
| Bogota, Colombia | BOG | 4,933 km | 6h 33m |
| Tocumen, Panama | PTY | 5,456 km | 7h 12m |
| Cancún, Mexico | CUN | 6,899 km | 8h 59m |
| Mexico City, Mexico | MEX | 7,102 km | 9h 15m |
| Miami, United States | MIA | 7,316 km | 9h 30m |
SOURCE·OurAirports + great-circle computation·REVIEWED JUL 2026
Questions about ZAL
What is the airport code for Valdivia?
Pichoy Airport uses the IATA code ZAL and the ICAO code SCVD. IATA codes are the three-letter ones on your boarding pass; ICAO codes are four letters and used by air traffic control.
Where is Pichoy Airport?
It sits at 39.6500° S, 73.0861° W, serving Valdivia in Chile, at an elevation of 59 feet.
Data from OurAirports (public domain) · Wikipedia. Flight times are great-circle estimates for planning only — always check the airline's published schedule.
