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title: "SCL — Comodoro Arturo Merino Benítez Airport, Santiago · Orbit"
description: "Comodoro Arturo Merino Benítez International Airport (SCL/SCEL) serves Santiago, Chile. Opened 1967, named after Arturo Merino Benítez, 12.7 million passengers in 2022."
url: https://orbitflights.app/airports/scl
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Santiago · Chile · South America

# SCL — Comodoro Arturo Merino Benítez

Comodoro Arturo Merino Benítez International Airport serves Santiago, Chile, 15 km from the city centre, 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

**Opened**
1967
per Wikidata

**Passengers**
12.7M
in 2022

## History & name

Named after the Chilean aviator Arturo Merino Benítez, Comodoro Arturo Merino Benítez International Airport opened in 1967, 15 km from Santiago. It has two runways, the longer measuring 3,750 m, sits at 1,555 feet and handled 12.7 million passengers in 2022.

Named after **Arturo Merino Benítez** — Chilean aviator

Read more: [Wikipedia ↗](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comodoro%5FArturo%5FMerino%5FBen%C3%ADtez%5FInternational%5FAirport) · [Wikidata ↗](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q127671)

## At a glance

**Full name**
Comodoro Arturo Merino Benítez International Airport

**Serves**
Santiago, Chile

**City centre**
15 km from Santiago

**Opened**
1967

**Passengers**
12.7 million in 2022

**Runways**
2 runways, longest 3,750 m

**Elevation**
1,555 ft (474 m)

**Map**
[Open in Google Maps ↗](https://www.google.com/maps/search/?api=1&query=-33.39300,-70.78580)

**Website**
[aeropuertosantiago.cl ↗](http://www.aeropuertosantiago.cl/ingles/index.php)

## 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.

| To                                                          |     | Distance  | Estimated |
| ----------------------------------------------------------- | --- | --------- | --------- |
| [Buenos Aires](https://orbitflights.app/routes/eze-to-scl)  | EZE | 1,138 km  | 1h 55m    |
| [Lima](https://orbitflights.app/routes/lim-to-scl)          | LIM | 2,462 km  | 3h 34m    |
| [São Paulo](https://orbitflights.app/routes/gru-to-scl)     | GRU | 2,615 km  | 3h 45m    |
| [Easter Island](https://orbitflights.app/routes/scl-to-ipc) | IPC | 3,752 km  | 5h 10m    |
| [Sydney](https://orbitflights.app/routes/scl-to-syd)        | SYD | 11,340 km | 14h 36m   |

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

## 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 SCL to anywhere →](https://orbitflights.app/distance) [Flights to Santiago →](https://orbitflights.app/flights-to/santiago)

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