- IATA
- GRU
- the code on your bag tag
- ICAO
- SBGR
- used by air traffic control
- Opened
- 1985
- per Wikidata
- Passengers
- 34.4M
- in 2022
History & name
Guarulhos International Airport in São Paulo opened in 1985 and honours Franco Montoro, a Brazilian politician (1916–1999). Operated by Infraero, it lies 21 km from São Paulo at 2,461 feet, with two runways up to 3,700 m, and handled 34.4 million passengers in 2022.
Named afterFranco Montoro — Brazilian politician (1916–1999)
Read more: Wikipedia ↗ · Wikidata ↗
At a glance
- Full name
- São Paulo/Guarulhos–Governor André Franco Montoro International Airport
- Serves
- São Paulo, Brazil
- City centre
- 21 km from São Paulo
- Opened
- 1985
- Operator
- Infraero
- Passengers
- 34.4 million in 2022
- Runways
- 2 runways, longest 3,700 m
- Elevation
- 2,461 ft (750 m)
- Website
- gru.com.br ↗
Where it sits
23.4°S, 46.5°W puts GRU in the southern hemisphere, 2,605 km from the equator and 7,402 km from the South pole.
Of the 661 airports on this site it is the 602nd most northerly, which makes it the 60th most southerly.
Straight through the middle
Straight down through the centre of the Earth comes out at 23.4°N, 133.5°E. The nearest airport on this site to that point is Naha (OKA) in Japan, still 669 km away — most of the planet's antipodes are ocean.
What’s near it
The closest other airport on this site is Congonhas–Deputado Freitas Nobre (CGH), 29 km away in a straight line. 2 airports here sit within 100 km — worth checking which one your ticket actually says.
Distances from GRU
Great circle distance and an estimated time in the air. The longest is Singapore, at 15,995 km.
| To | Distance | Estimated | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rio de Janeiro | GIG | 336 km | 55m |
| Buenos Aires | EZE | 1,723 km | 2h 38m |
| Santiago | SCL | 2,615 km | 3h 45m |
| Miami | MIA | 6,574 km | 8h 40m |
| Madrid | MAD | 8,378 km | 10h 55m |
| London | LHR | 9,460 km | 12h 15m |
| Singapore | SIN | 15,995 km | 20h 23m |
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.
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.
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