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SCLComodoro Arturo Merino Benítez

Comodoro Arturo Merino Benítez serves Santiago, Chile, and sits at 33.4°S, 70.8°W. This site carries 5 routes touching it, with the great circle distance for each.

IATA
SCL
the code on your bag tag
ICAO
SCEL
used by air traffic control
Routes here
5
in the catalogue
From the equator
3,713 km
6,294 km from the South pole

Where it sits

33.4°S, 70.8°W puts SCL in the southern hemisphere, 3,713 km from the equator and 6,294 km from the South pole.

Of the 661 airports on this site it is the 631st most northerly, which makes it the 31st most southerly.

Straight through the middle

Straight down through the centre of the Earth comes out at 33.4°N, 109.2°E — 124 km from Xi'an Xianyang (XIY) in China, 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 Governor Francisco Gabrielli (MDZ), 196 km away in a straight line. Nothing else on this site is within 100 km.

Distances from SCL

Great circle distance and an estimated time in the air. The longest is Sydney, at 11,340 km.

ToDistanceEstimated
Buenos AiresEZE1,138 km1h 55m
LimaLIM2,462 km3h 34m
São PauloGRU2,615 km3h 45m
Easter IslandIPC3,752 km5h 10m
SydneySYD11,340 km14h 36m

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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