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Panama City · Panama · North America

PTYTocumen

Tocumen serves Panama City, Panama, and sits at 9.1°N, 79.4°W. This site carries 2 routes touching it, with the great circle distance for each.

IATA
PTY
the code on your bag tag
ICAO
MPTO
used by air traffic control
Routes here
2
in the catalogue
From the equator
1,009 km
8,999 km from the North pole

Where it sits

9.1°N, 79.4°W puts PTY in the northern hemisphere, 1,009 km from the equator and 8,999 km from the North pole.

Of the 661 airports on this site it is the 475th most northerly, which makes it the 187th most southerly.

Straight through the middle

Straight down through the centre of the Earth comes out at 9.1°S, 100.6°E. The nearest airport on this site to that point is Soekarno-Hatta (CGK) in Indonesia, still 742 km away — most of the planet's antipodes are ocean.

What’s near it

The closest other airport on this site is Enrique Malek (DAV), 344 km away in a straight line. Nothing else on this site is within 100 km.

Distances from PTY

Great circle distance and an estimated time in the air. The longest is Miami, at 1,862 km.

ToDistanceEstimated
San JoséSJO539 km1h 10m
MiamiMIA1,862 km2h 49m

What’s on this page, and what isn’t

Every figure here is computed from the airport’s coordinates and the rest of the table — distances, bearings, ranks, the antipode. Nothing is written by hand, so nothing on it is a half-remembered fact about a terminal that was rebuilt in 2019.

Which also means what you won’t find: no passenger figures, no terminal maps, no airline lists, no live departures. Orbit is a logbook, not a flight tracker, and a page that invented those would be worse than one that leaves them out.

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