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title: "PTY — Tocumen Airport, Panama City · Orbit"
description: "Tocumen International Airport (PTY/MPTO) serves Panama City, Panama. Opened 1947, 15.8 million passengers in 2022, 17 km from Panama City."
url: https://orbitflights.app/airports/pty
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Panama City · Panama · North America

# PTY — Tocumen

Tocumen International Airport serves Panama City, Panama, 17 km from the city centre, 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

**Opened**
1947
per Wikidata

**Passengers**
15.8M
in 2022

## History & name

Tocumen International Airport opened in 1947 and lies 17 km from Panama City. It handled 15.8 million passengers in 2022 and has two runways, the longest 3,050 m, at an elevation of 135 ft.

Read more: [Wikipedia ↗](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tocumen%5FInternational%5FAirport) · [Wikidata ↗](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1420178)

## At a glance

**Full name**
Tocumen International Airport

**Serves**
Panama City, Panama

**City centre**
17 km from Panama City

**Opened**
1947

**Passengers**
15.8 million in 2022

**Runways**
2 runways, longest 3,050 m

**Elevation**
135 ft (41 m)

**Map**
[Open in Google Maps ↗](https://www.google.com/maps/search/?api=1&query=9.07140,-79.38350)

**Website**
[tocumenpanama.aero ↗](https://www.tocumenpanama.aero/)

## 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.

| To                                                     |     | Distance | Estimated |
| ------------------------------------------------------ | --- | -------- | --------- |
| [San José](https://orbitflights.app/routes/pty-to-sjo) | SJO | 539 km   | 1h 10m    |
| [Miami](https://orbitflights.app/routes/mia-to-pty)    | MIA | 1,862 km | 2h 49m    |

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

## 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 PTY to anywhere →](https://orbitflights.app/distance)

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