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Juan Santamaría International Airport

ICAO MROC9.9939°N 84.2088°W921 m / 3,021 ftLarge airport

Juan Santamaría International Airport (IATA: SJO, ICAO: MROC) is a large airport in San José (Alajuela), Alajuela Province, Costa Rica. It opened in 1958. It has one runway, 3,012 m (9,882 ft) long, asphalt. In 2021 it handled 3.1 million passengers.

Timeline

2 events · 1958–2022

1958

OpenedJuan Santamaría International Airport opens.

07 APR 2022

DisasterDHL Aero Expreso Flight 7216.No deaths

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Runways & airfield

Schematic · N · © OpenStreetMap

07/25069° / 249° · LIT · SLOPE 1.1%

LENGTH3,012 m9,882 ftWIDTH46 m151 ftSURFACEAsphalt

Passengers per year

2010–2021

4.3M

3.9M

3.9M

3.8M

3.9M

4.5M

6.5M

5.1M

5.1M

5.5M

1.6M

3.1M

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Routes

56 destinations · 20 countries

Year-round50

XQPQuepos Managua AirportCosta Rica · SANSA62 km39 mi FONLa Fortuna Arenal AirportCosta Rica · SANSA67 km42 mi TMUTambor AirportCosta Rica · SANSA93 km58 mi TTQTortuguero AirportCosta Rica · SANSA99 km62 mi LIOLimón International AirportCosta Rica · SANSA130 km81 mi DRKDrake Bay AirportCosta Rica · SANSA155 km96 mi NOBNosara AirportCosta Rica · SANSA158 km98 mi LIRDaniel Oduber Quirós International AirportCosta Rica · SANSA161 km100 mi TNOTamarindo AirportCosta Rica · SANSA179 km111 mi GLFGolfito AirportCosta Rica · SANSA187 km116 mi PJMPuerto Jimenez AirportCosta Rica · SANSA191 km119 mi BOCBocas del Toro "Isla Colón" International AirportPanama · SANSA227 km141 mi MGAAugusto C. Sandino (Managua) International AirportNicaragua · SANSA, Copa Airlines321 km199 mi PTYTocumen International AirportPanama · Avianca Costa Rica, Copa Airlines539 km335 mi SALEl Salvador International Airport Saint Óscar Arnulfo Romero y GaldámezEl Salvador · Avianca Costa Rica, Avianca El Salvador652 km405 mi GUALa Aurora International AirportGuatemala · Avianca Costa Rica, Copa Airlines855 km531 mi CTGRafael Nuñez International AirportColombia · Avianca Costa Rica953 km592 mi MDEJose Maria Córdova International AirportColombia · Avianca Costa Rica, Wingo1,057 km657 mi BOGEl Dorado International AirportColombia · Avianca Costa Rica, Avianca1,256 km780 mi CUNCancún International AirportMexico · Volaris Costa Rica, Volaris1,261 km784 mi UIOMariscal Sucre International AirportEcuador · Avianca Costa Rica1,298 km807 mi GYEJosé Joaquín de Olmedo International AirportEcuador · Avianca Costa Rica1,434 km891 mi MIAMiami International AirportUnited States · Avianca Costa Rica, American Airlines1,805 km1,122 mi SDQLas Américas International AirportDominican Republic · Arajet1,825 km1,134 mi FLLFort Lauderdale Hollywood International AirportUnited States · JetBlue Airways1,838 km1,142 mi MEXMexico City Benito Juárez International AirportMexico · Avianca Costa Rica, Volaris Costa Rica, Aeroméxico1,910 km1,187 mi TPATampa International AirportUnited States · Breeze Airways2,007 km1,247 mi MCOOrlando International AirportUnited States · Volaris Costa Rica, Southwest Airlines2,072 km1,287 mi GDLGuadalajara International AirportMexico · Volaris Costa Rica2,356 km1,464 mi MTYMonterrey International AirportMexico · Viva2,426 km1,507 mi HOUWilliam P. Hobby AirportUnited States · Southwest Airlines2,469 km1,534 mi IAHGeorge Bush Intercontinental AirportUnited States · United Airlines2,505 km1,557 mi LIMJorge Chávez International AirportPeru · LATAM Airlines Peru2,570 km1,597 mi ATLHartsfield Jackson Atlanta International AirportUnited States · Delta Air Lines2,629 km1,634 mi AUSAustin Bergstrom International AirportUnited States · Southwest Airlines2,644 km1,643 mi CLTCharlotte Douglas International AirportUnited States · American Airlines2,824 km1,755 mi DFWDallas Fort Worth International AirportUnited States · American Airlines2,866 km1,781 mi IADWashington Dulles International AirportUnited States · Avianca Costa Rica3,288 km2,043 mi EWRNewark Liberty International AirportUnited States · United Airlines3,553 km2,208 mi JFKJohn F. Kennedy International AirportUnited States · JetBlue Airways, Avianca Costa Rica3,559 km2,211 mi YYZToronto Pearson International AirportCanada · Air Canada3,771 km2,343 mi YULMontreal / Pierre Elliott Trudeau International AirportCanada · Air Canada, Air Transat4,069 km2,528 mi LAXLos Angeles International AirportUnited States · Alaska Airlines4,382 km2,723 mi SFOSan Francisco International AirportUnited States · United Airlines4,894 km3,041 mi EZEEzeiza International Airport - Ministro PistariniArgentina · Avianca Costa Rica5,669 km3,523 mi MADAdolfo Suárez Madrid–Barajas AirportSpain · Evelop Airlines, Iberia8,499 km5,281 mi CDGCharles de Gaulle International AirportFrance · Air France8,936 km5,553 mi AMSAmsterdam Airport SchipholNetherlands · KLM9,060 km5,630 mi FRAFrankfurt Main AirportGermany · Lufthansa9,354 km5,812 mi ZRHZürich AirportSwitzerland · Edelweiss Air9,396 km5,838 mi

Seasonal11

SAPRamón Villeda Morales International AirportHonduras · Avianca Costa Rica728 km452 mi MCOOrlando International AirportUnited States · Frontier Airlines2,072 km1,287 mi ATLHartsfield Jackson Atlanta International AirportUnited States · Frontier Airlines2,629 km1,634 mi BNANashville International AirportUnited States · Southwest Airlines2,916 km1,812 mi IADWashington Dulles International AirportUnited States · United Airlines3,288 km2,043 mi ORDChicago O'Hare International AirportUnited States · United Airlines, Avianca Costa Rica, American Airlines3,575 km2,221 mi YYZToronto Pearson International AirportCanada · Porter Airlines, Air Transat3,771 km2,343 mi DENDenver International AirportUnited States · United Airlines, Southwest Airlines3,888 km2,416 mi YQBQuebec Jean Lesage International AirportCanada · Air Transat4,267 km2,651 mi LAXLos Angeles International AirportUnited States · United Airlines, Delta Air Lines4,382 km2,723 mi LHRLondon Heathrow AirportUnited Kingdom · British Airways8,708 km5,411 mi

Most destinationsAvianca Costa Rica 15SANSA 13United Airlines 7Southwest Airlines 5Volaris Costa Rica 4American Airlines 4

Straight lines are great circles; rings mark true distance from SJO. Dashed: seasonal or charter. From the Wikipedia article “Juan Santamaría International Airport” (revision of 16 Sep 2026), CC BY-SA 4.0.

Records & rankings

Ranked among 48,011 open airports · world · region · country

Passengers3.1M (2021)1 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 64KMEDIAN · 64KMORE · 103MMORE · 103M#459of 3,974 · #110 North America · #1 CR Longest runway3,012 m9,882 ft46 m · SHORT150 ft · SHORTMEDIAN · 975 mMEDIAN · 3,200 ftLONG · 5,300 mLONG · 17,388 ft=1,144of 29,823 · #283 North America · #1 CR Elevation921 m3,021 ft-386 m · LOW-1,266 ft · LOWMEDIAN · 240 mMEDIAN · 787 ftHIGH · 4,938 mHIGH · 16,200 ft#5,422of 43,341 · #2,699 North America · #5 CR AgeOpened 19582026 · NEWEST2026 · NEWESTMEDIAN · 1976MEDIAN · 1976OLDEST · 1902OLDEST · 1902=4,324of 15,079 · =2,944 North America · #1 CR Runways11 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 1MEDIAN · 1MORE · 8MORE · 8=4,360of 29,943 · =2,582 North America · =1 CR

Scale: share of airports ranked below, best on the right · ties shown as = and a band · passengers are each airport’s latest year on record

Radio frequencies

6 channels

ACCCOCO CON119.600

APPCOCO APP120.500

CLDCLNC121.300

GNDGND121.900

RDOCOCO RDO126.800

TWRCOCO TWR118.600