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Flights to Santiago: how far it is, and from where

Santiago sits at 33.4°S, 70.8°W, served by Comodoro Arturo Merino Benítez (SCL). Below are 5 routes into it, with the great circle distance and an estimated flying time for each.

This page is about distance and geography — there are no fares or schedules on it. For tickets, use a booking site; for how far it actually is and what you fly over to get there, you’re in the right place.

Routes here
5
in the catalogue
Nearest
1,138 km
from Buenos Aires
Furthest
11,340 km
from Sydney
Airports
1
SCL

How far Santiago is from everywhere else

Great circle distance between the airports, and an estimate of the time in the air. Every row links to the route in full.

FromDistanceEstimatedDirection
Buenos AiresEZE1,138 km1h 55mbarely any time shift
LimaLIM2,462 km3h 34mbarely any time shift
São PauloGRU2,615 km3h 45mwestbound — the easier direction
Easter IslandIPC3,752 km5h 10meastbound — the harder direction
SydneySYD11,340 km14h 36meastbound — the harder direction

What Santiago adds to a map

Santiago puts a pin in Chile, and South America is one of the seven continents — the coarsest and most useful measure of how much of the world a flight map actually covers. The furthest route here, from Sydney, is 11,340 km: 28.3% of one lap of the Earth in a single flight.

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