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title: "UIO — Mariscal Sucre Airport, Quito · Orbit"
description: "Mariscal Sucre International Airport (UIO/SEQM) serves Quito, Ecuador. Opened 2013, 4.3 million passengers in 2022, 22 km from Quito."
url: https://orbitflights.app/airports/uio
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Quito · Ecuador · South America

# UIO — Mariscal Sucre

Mariscal Sucre International Airport serves Quito, Ecuador, 22 km from the city centre, and sits at 0.1°S, 78.4°W. This site carries 2 routes touching it, with the great circle distance for each.

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

**ICAO**
SEQM
used by air traffic control

**Opened**
2013
per Wikidata

**Passengers**
4.3M
in 2022

## History & name

Mariscal Sucre International Airport opened in 2013, 22 km from Quito. Its one runway stretches 4,098 m at an elevation of 7,841 feet, and it handled 4.3 million passengers in 2022.

Read more: [Wikipedia ↗](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mariscal%5FSucre%5FInternational%5FAirport) · [Wikidata ↗](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1547557)

## At a glance

**Full name**
Mariscal Sucre International Airport

**Serves**
Quito, Ecuador

**City centre**
22 km from Quito

**Opened**
2013

**Passengers**
4.3 million in 2022

**Runways**
1 runway, 4,098 m

**Elevation**
7,841 ft (2,390 m)

**Map**
[Open in Google Maps ↗](https://www.google.com/maps/search/?api=1&query=-0.12540,-78.35430)

**Website**
[aeropuertoquito.aero ↗](https://www.aeropuertoquito.aero/?lang=en)

## Where it sits

0.1°S, 78.4°W puts UIO in the southern hemisphere, 14 km from the equator and 9,994 km from the South pole.

Of the 661 airports on this site it is the **516th** most northerly, which makes it the 146th most southerly.

## Straight through the middle

Straight down through the centre of the Earth comes out at 0.1°N, 101.6°E — 281 km from Senai (JHB) in Malaysia, 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 **José Joaquín de Olmedo** (GYE), 283 km away in a straight line. Nothing else on this site is within 100 km.

## Distances from UIO

Great circle distance and an estimated time in the air. The longest is Galápagos, at 1,325 km.

| To                                                      |     | Distance | Estimated |
| ------------------------------------------------------- | --- | -------- | --------- |
| [Bogotá](https://orbitflights.app/routes/bog-to-uio)    | BOG | 712 km   | 1h 23m    |
| [Galápagos](https://orbitflights.app/routes/uio-to-gps) | GPS | 1,325 km | 2h 09m    |

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

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

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