- IATA
- GIG
- the code on your bag tag
- ICAO
- SBGL
- used by air traffic control
- Opened
- 1952
- per Wikidata
- Passengers
- 14.4M
- in 2024
History & name
Rio de Janeiro Galeão – Tom Jobim International Airport opened in 1952 and is named after Galeão, Rio de Janeiro and Antônio Carlos Jobim (1927–1994), the songwriter, composer and pianist. It lies 13 km from Rio de Janeiro and handled 14.4 million passengers in 2024.
Named afterAntônio Carlos Jobim — Brazilian songwriter, composer, arranger, singer, and pianist/guitarist (1927–1994)
Read more: Wikipedia ↗ · Wikidata ↗
At a glance
- Full name
- Rio de Janeiro Galeão – Tom Jobim International Airport
- Serves
- Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
- City centre
- 13 km from Rio de Janeiro
- Opened
- 1952
- Passengers
- 14.4 million in 2024
- Runways
- 2 runways, longest 4,000 m
- Elevation
- 28 ft (9 m)
- Website
- riogaleao.com ↗
Where it sits
22.8°S, 43.3°W puts GIG in the southern hemisphere, 2,536 km from the equator and 7,471 km from the South pole.
Of the 661 airports on this site it is the 598th most northerly, which makes it the 64th most southerly.
Straight through the middle
Straight down through the centre of the Earth comes out at 22.8°N, 136.7°E. The nearest airport on this site to that point is Naha (OKA) in Japan, still 995 km away — most of the planet's antipodes are ocean.
What’s near it
The closest other airport on this site is Santos Dumont (SDU), 14 km away in a straight line. It is the only one within 100 km.
Distances from GIG
Great circle distance and an estimated time in the air. The longest is Lisbon, at 7,715 km.
Where these facts come from
The profile is looked up, not written from memory: type, runways, elevation and the official website from OurAirports (public domain); opening year, namesake, operator and passenger count from Wikidata (CC0); the city centre from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0). Where a source has nothing, the line is left out. Distances, neighbours and the antipode are computed from the coordinates.
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