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Airports near Rio de Janeiro
In short
The nearest airport with scheduled passenger service to Rio de Janeiro is Santos Dumont Airport (SDU), 7 km (4 mi) east-northeast of the city centre.
3 airports with scheduled service lie within 150 km: SDU, GIG and JDF.
Distances are great-circle from Natural Earth's point for Rio de Janeiro; airport data from OurAirports, retrieved 2026-10-18.
Data updated
At a glance
- Within 50 km
- 2airports
- Within 100 km
- 2airports
- Within 150 km
- 3airports
Where the airports are
Each airport sits at its real direction and straight-line distance from central Rio de Janeiro.
Airports within 150 km of Rio de Janeiro
| Airport | Distance from the centre | Direction | Class | Longest runway | Elevation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SDUSantos Dumont AirportRio de Janeiro, Brazil | 7 km4 mi | ENE 78° | Large | 1,323 m4,341 ft | 3 m |
| GIGRio de Janeiro Galeão – Tom Jobim International AirportRio De Janeiro, Brazil | 13 km8 mi | N 349° | Large | 4,000 m13,123 ft | 9 m |
| JDFFrancisco de Assis AirportJuiz de Fora, Brazil | 127 km79 mi | N 353° | Medium | 1,535 m5,036 ft | 911 m |
Search code RIO covers all Rio de Janeiro airports at once (an IATA metropolitan-area code).
Key findings
Rio de Janeiro has 2 large airports within 100 km: SDU (7 km) and GIG (13 km).
How we calculated this: Dataset airports of OurAirports type large_airport within 100 km of the Natural Earth city point.
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