Ástor Piazzola International Airport

ICAO SAZM37.9342°S 57.5733°W22 m / 72 ftMedium airport

Ástor Piazzola International Airport (IATA: MDQ, ICAO: SAZM) is a medium airport in Mar del Plata, Buenos Aires Province, Argentina. It has one runway, 2,200 m (7,218 ft) long, asphalt. It is operated by Aeropuertos Argentina. In 2025 it handled 301 thousand passengers.

Runways & airfield

Schematic · N · © OpenStreetMap

13/31123° / 303° · LIT

LENGTH2,200 m7,218 ftWIDTH45 m148 ftSURFACEAsphalt

Passengers per year

2014–2025

134K

183K

195K

280K

453K

378K

111K

87K

272K

307K

294K

301K

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Routes

4 destinations · 1 country

Year-round4

AEPAeroparque Jorge NewberyArgentina · Líneas Aéreas del Estado (LADE)383 km238 mi BHIComandante Espora AirportArgentina · Líneas Aéreas del Estado (LADE)410 km255 mi PMYEl Tehuelche AirportArgentina · Líneas Aéreas del Estado (LADE)833 km518 mi BRCTeniente Luis Candelaria International AirportArgentina · Líneas Aéreas del Estado (LADE)1,217 km756 mi

Straight lines are great circles; rings mark true distance from MDQ. From the Wikipedia article “Astor Piazzolla Airport” (revision of 7 Jul 2026), CC BY-SA 4.0.

Records & rankings

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

Passengers301K (2025)1 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 64KMEDIAN · 64KMORE · 103MMORE · 103M#1,348of 3,974 · #123 South America · #17 AR Longest runway2,200 m7,218 ft46 m · SHORT150 ft · SHORTMEDIAN · 975 mMEDIAN · 3,200 ftLONG · 5,300 mLONG · 17,388 ft=3,269of 29,823 · =205 South America · =46 AR Elevation22 m72 ft-386 m · LOW-1,266 ft · LOWMEDIAN · 240 mMEDIAN · 787 ftHIGH · 4,938 mHIGH · 16,200 ft=38,019of 43,341 · =8,262 South America · =719 AR Runways11 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 1MEDIAN · 1MORE · 8MORE · 8=4,360of 29,943 · =181 South America · =95 AR

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

3 channels

A/DCON124.400

GNDGND121.700

TWRTWR/APP118.750