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title: "LIM — Jorge Chávez Airport, Lima · Orbit"
description: "Jorge Chávez International Airport (LIM/SPJC) serves Lima, Peru. Opened 1960, named after Jorge Chávez, 22.9 million passengers in 2023, 10 km from Lima."
url: https://orbitflights.app/airports/lim
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Lima · Peru · South America

# LIM — Jorge Chávez

Jorge Chávez International Airport serves Lima, Peru, 10 km from the city centre, and sits at 12.0°S, 77.1°W. This site carries 5 routes touching it, with the great circle distance for each.

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

**ICAO**
SPJC
used by air traffic control

**Opened**
1960
per Wikidata

**Passengers**
22.9M
in 2023

## History & name

Jorge Chávez International Airport opened in 1960 and is named after Jorge Chávez (1887–1910), a Peruvian aviator. Lima Airport Partners operates it 10 km from Lima; it handled 22.9 million passengers in 2023 and has two runways, the longer 3,507 m.

Named after **Jorge Chávez** — Peruvian aviator (1887–1910)

Read more: [Wikipedia ↗](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jorge%5FCh%C3%A1vez%5FInternational%5FAirport) · [Wikidata ↗](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1142219)

## At a glance

**Full name**
Jorge Chávez International Airport

**Serves**
Lima, Peru

**City centre**
10 km from Lima

**Opened**
1960

**Operator**
Lima Airport Partners

**Passengers**
22.9 million in 2023

**Runways**
2 runways, longest 3,507 m

**Elevation**
113 ft (34 m)

**Map**
[Open in Google Maps ↗](https://www.google.com/maps/search/?api=1&query=-12.02190,-77.11430)

**Website**
[lap.com.pe ↗](http://www.lap.com.pe/)

## Where it sits

12.0°S, 77.1°W puts LIM in the southern hemisphere, 1,337 km from the equator and 8,671 km from the South pole.

Of the 661 airports on this site it is the **559th** most northerly, which makes it the 103rd most southerly.

## Straight through the middle

Straight down through the centre of the Earth comes out at 12.0°N, 102.9°E — 217 km from U-Tapao–Rayong–Pattaya (UTP) in Thailand, 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 **Capitán FAP Carlos Martínez de Pinillos** (TRU), 489 km away in a straight line. Nothing else on this site is within 100 km.

## Distances from LIM

Great circle distance and an estimated time in the air. The longest is Mexico City, at 4,245 km.

| To                                                        |     | Distance | Estimated |
| --------------------------------------------------------- | --- | -------- | --------- |
| [Cusco](https://orbitflights.app/routes/lim-to-cuz)       | CUZ | 586 km   | 1h 14m    |
| [Bogotá](https://orbitflights.app/routes/bog-to-lim)      | BOG | 1,888 km | 2h 51m    |
| [Santiago](https://orbitflights.app/routes/lim-to-scl)    | SCL | 2,462 km | 3h 34m    |
| [Miami](https://orbitflights.app/routes/mia-to-lim)       | MIA | 4,219 km | 5h 45m    |
| [Mexico City](https://orbitflights.app/routes/lim-to-mex) | MEX | 4,245 km | 5h 47m    |

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

## 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 LIM to anywhere →](https://orbitflights.app/distance) [Flights to Lima →](https://orbitflights.app/flights-to/lima)

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