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title: "Flights to Santiago: how far it is, and from where · Orbit"
description: "Great circle distances and estimated flying times to Santiago, Chile, from 5 cities — 1,138 km at the nearest, 11,340 km at the furthest. Distance and geography, not fares."
url: https://orbitflights.app/flights-to/santiago
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Chile · South America

# 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.

| From                                                        |     | Distance  | Estimated | Direction                        |
| ----------------------------------------------------------- | --- | --------- | --------- | -------------------------------- |
| [Buenos Aires](https://orbitflights.app/routes/eze-to-scl)  | EZE | 1,138 km  | 1h 55m    | barely any time shift            |
| [Lima](https://orbitflights.app/routes/lim-to-scl)          | LIM | 2,462 km  | 3h 34m    | barely any time shift            |
| [São Paulo](https://orbitflights.app/routes/gru-to-scl)     | GRU | 2,615 km  | 3h 45m    | westbound — the easier direction |
| [Easter Island](https://orbitflights.app/routes/scl-to-ipc) | IPC | 3,752 km  | 5h 10m    | eastbound — the harder direction |
| [Sydney](https://orbitflights.app/routes/scl-to-syd)        | SYD | 11,340 km | 14h 36m   | eastbound — 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.

[What actually counts as a country visited →](https://orbitflights.app/blog/counting-countries)

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