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title: "BOG — El Dorado Airport, Bogotá · Orbit"
description: "El Dorado International Airport (BOG/SKBO) serves Bogotá, Colombia. Opened 1959, 35.4 million passengers in 2022, 13 km from Bogotá."
url: https://orbitflights.app/airports/bog
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Bogotá · Colombia · South America

# BOG — El Dorado

El Dorado International Airport serves Bogotá, Colombia, 13 km from the city centre, and sits at 4.7°N, 74.1°W. This site carries 4 routes touching it, with the great circle distance for each.

**IATA**
BOG
the code on your bag tag

**ICAO**
SKBO
used by air traffic control

**Opened**
1959
per Wikidata

**Passengers**
35.4M
in 2022

## History & name

El Dorado International Airport opened in 1959 and lies 13 km from Bogotá, Colombia. It sits at an elevation of 8,361 feet with two runways up to 3,800 m, and handled 35.4 million passengers in 2022.

Read more: [Wikipedia ↗](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El%5FDorado%5FInternational%5FAirport) · [Wikidata ↗](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q201785)

## At a glance

**Full name**
El Dorado International Airport

**Serves**
Bogotá, Colombia

**City centre**
13 km from Bogotá

**Opened**
1959

**Passengers**
35.4 million in 2022

**Runways**
2 runways, longest 3,800 m

**Elevation**
8,361 ft (2,548 m)

**Map**
[Open in Google Maps ↗](https://www.google.com/maps/search/?api=1&query=4.70160,-74.14690)

**Website**
[eldorado.aero ↗](https://eldorado.aero/)

## Where it sits

4.7°N, 74.1°W puts BOG in the northern hemisphere, 523 km from the equator and 9,485 km from the North pole.

Of the 661 airports on this site it is the **503rd** most northerly, which makes it the 159th most southerly.

## Straight through the middle

Straight down through the centre of the Earth comes out at 4.7°S, 105.9°E — 182 km from Soekarno-Hatta (CGK) in Indonesia, which is about as close to a true antipodal airport pair as this table gets.

## What’s near it

The closest other airport on this site is **Matecaña** (PEI), 177 km away in a straight line. Nothing else on this site is within 100 km.

## Distances from BOG

Great circle distance and an estimated time in the air. The longest is Madrid, at 8,031 km.

| To                                                   |     | Distance | Estimated |
| ---------------------------------------------------- | --- | -------- | --------- |
| [Quito](https://orbitflights.app/routes/bog-to-uio)  | UIO | 712 km   | 1h 23m    |
| [Lima](https://orbitflights.app/routes/bog-to-lim)   | LIM | 1,888 km | 2h 51m    |
| [Miami](https://orbitflights.app/routes/mia-to-bog)  | MIA | 2,435 km | 3h 32m    |
| [Madrid](https://orbitflights.app/routes/mad-to-bog) | MAD | 8,031 km | 10h 29m   |

[Distance from BOG to any airport →](https://orbitflights.app/distance?from=BOG&to=MAD) [Map a trip from BOG →](https://orbitflights.app/tools/flight-route-map?r=BOG-MAD)

## Where these facts come from

The profile is looked up, not written from memory: type, runways, elevation and the official website from [OurAirports](https://ourairports.com/data/) (public domain); opening year, namesake, operator and passenger count from [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/) (CC0); the city centre from [GeoNames](https://www.geonames.org/) (CC BY 4.0). Where a source has nothing, the line is left out. Distances, neighbours and the antipode are computed from the coordinates.

What you won’t find: terminal maps, airline lists, shops or live departures. Orbit is a logbook, not a flight tracker, and a page that guessed at those would be worse than one that leaves them out.

[Measure BOG to anywhere →](https://orbitflights.app/distance)

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