--- title: "GIG — Rio Galeão – Tom Jobim Airport, Rio de Janeiro · Orbit" description: "Rio de Janeiro Galeão – Tom Jobim International Airport (GIG/SBGL) serves Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Opened 1952, named after Antônio Carlos Jobim." url: https://orbitflights.app/airports/gig --- Rio de Janeiro · Brazil · South America # GIG — Rio Galeão – Tom Jobim Rio de Janeiro Galeão – Tom Jobim International Airport serves Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 13 km from the city centre, and sits at 22.8°S, 43.3°W. This site carries 2 routes touching it, with the great circle distance for each. **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 after **Antônio Carlos Jobim** — Brazilian songwriter, composer, arranger, singer, and pianist/guitarist (1927–1994) Read more: [Wikipedia ↗](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rio%5Fde%5FJaneiro-Gale%C3%A3o%5FInternational%5FAirport) · [Wikidata ↗](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q733998) ## 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) **Map** [Open in Google Maps ↗](https://www.google.com/maps/search/?api=1&query=-22.81000,-43.25060) **Website** [riogaleao.com ↗](https://www.riogaleao.com/passageiros) ## 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. SDU Santos Dumont 14 km ## Distances from GIG Great circle distance and an estimated time in the air. The longest is Lisbon, at 7,715 km. | To | | Distance | Estimated | | ------------------------------------------------------- | --- | -------- | --------- | | [São Paulo](https://orbitflights.app/routes/gru-to-gig) | GRU | 336 km | 55m | | [Lisbon](https://orbitflights.app/routes/lis-to-gig) | LIS | 7,715 km | 10h 05m | [Distance from GIG to any airport →](https://orbitflights.app/distance?from=GIG&to=LIS) [Map a trip from GIG →](https://orbitflights.app/tools/flight-route-map?r=GIG-LIS) ## 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 GIG to anywhere →](https://orbitflights.app/distance) ## Flown through GIG? Orbit knows all 8,801 airports offline and works out the distance the moment you enter two codes. [Download now](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.qwertybit.orbit) --- Markdown copy of https://orbitflights.app/airports/gig for language models and agents. Site index: https://orbitflights.app/llms.txt