General Leobardo C. Ruiz International Airport
Zacatecas, Mexico — 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 ZCL to the nearest major hubs
Great-circle distance and estimated flight time to the closest large international airports — the realistic connecting points from Zacatecas.
| Hub | Code | Distance | Flight time |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mexico City, Mexico | MEX | 537 km | 1h 05m |
| Austin, United States | AUS | 953 km | 1h 36m |
| Houston, United States | IAH | 1,075 km | 1h 45m |
| Dallas-Fort Worth, United States | DFW | 1,242 km | 1h 58m |
| Phoenix, United States | PHX | 1,484 km | 2h 16m |
| Cancún, Mexico | CUN | 1,643 km | 2h 28m |
| San Diego, United States | SAN | 1,794 km | 2h 39m |
| Las Vegas, United States | LAS | 1,895 km | 2h 46m |
| Denver, United States | DEN | 1,896 km | 2h 46m |
| Los Angeles, United States | LAX | 1,964 km | 2h 52m |
SOURCE·OurAirports + great-circle computation·REVIEWED JUL 2026
Questions about ZCL
What is the airport code for Zacatecas?
General Leobardo C. Ruiz International Airport uses the IATA code ZCL and the ICAO code MMZC. IATA codes are the three-letter ones on your boarding pass; ICAO codes are four letters and used by air traffic control.
Where is General Leobardo C. Ruiz International Airport?
It sits at 22.8949° N, 102.6872° W, serving Zacatecas in Mexico, at an elevation of 7,141 feet.
Data from OurAirports (public domain) · Wikipedia. Flight times are great-circle estimates for planning only — always check the airline's published schedule.
