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title: "SJO — Juan Santamaría Airport, San José · Orbit"
description: "Juan Santamaría International Airport (SJO/MROC) serves San José, Costa Rica. Opened 1958, 3.1 million passengers in 2021, 15 km from San José."
url: https://orbitflights.app/airports/sjo
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San José · Costa Rica · North America

# SJO — Juan Santamaría

Juan Santamaría International Airport serves San José, Costa Rica, 15 km from the city centre, and sits at 10.0°N, 84.2°W. This site carries 1 route touching it, with the great circle distance for each.

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

**ICAO**
MROC
used by air traffic control

**Opened**
1958
per Wikidata

**Passengers**
3.1M
in 2021

## History & name

Juan Santamaría International Airport opened in 1958 and lies 15 km from San José, Costa Rica. Its one runway measures 3,012 m, the airfield sits at 3,021 feet, and it handled 3.1 million passengers in 2021.

Read more: [Wikipedia ↗](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juan%5FSantamar%C3%ADa%5FInternational%5FAirport) · [Wikidata ↗](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q555940)

## At a glance

**Full name**
Juan Santamaría International Airport

**Serves**
San José, Costa Rica

**City centre**
15 km from San José

**Opened**
1958

**Passengers**
3.1 million in 2021

**Runways**
1 runway, 3,012 m

**Elevation**
3,021 ft (921 m)

**Map**
[Open in Google Maps ↗](https://www.google.com/maps/search/?api=1&query=9.99390,-84.20880)

**Website**
[sjoairport.com ↗](https://www.sjoairport.com/)

## Where it sits

10.0°N, 84.2°W puts SJO in the northern hemisphere, 1,111 km from the equator and 8,896 km from the North pole.

Of the 661 airports on this site it is the **471st** most northerly, which makes it the 191st most southerly.

## Straight through the middle

Straight down through the centre of the Earth comes out at 10.0°S, 95.8°E. The nearest airport on this site to that point is Soekarno-Hatta (CGK) in Indonesia, still 1,271 km away — most of the planet's antipodes are ocean.

## What’s near it

The closest other airport on this site is **Daniel Oduber Quirós** (LIR), 161 km away in a straight line. Nothing else on this site is within 100 km.

## Distances from SJO

Great circle distance and an estimated time in the air.

| To                                                        |     | Distance | Estimated |
| --------------------------------------------------------- | --- | -------- | --------- |
| [Panama City](https://orbitflights.app/routes/pty-to-sjo) | PTY | 539 km   | 1h 10m    |

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

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

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