São Paulo/Guarulhos–Governor André Franco Montoro International Airport

ICAO SBGR23.4313°S 46.4700°W750 m / 2,461 ftLarge airport

São Paulo/Guarulhos–Governor André Franco Montoro International Airport (IATA: GRU, ICAO: SBGR) is a large airport in São Paulo, Brazil. It opened in 1985. It has 2 runways; the longest is 3,700 m (12,139 ft). It is operated by Infraero. In 2022 it handled 34.4 million passengers.

Timeline

2 events · 1985–1996

1985

OpenedSão Paulo/Guarulhos–Governor André Franco Montoro International Airport opens.

02 MAR 1996

DisasterMamonas Assassinas airplane crash.9 killed

From WikidataEvery airfield, 1903–2026

Runways & airfield

Schematic · N · © OpenStreetMap

10L/28R074° / 254° · LIT

LENGTH3,700 m12,139 ftWIDTH45 m148 ftSURFACEAsphalt

10R/28L074° / 254° · LIT

LENGTH3,000 m9,843 ftWIDTH45 m148 ftSURFACEAsphalt

Passengers per year

2011–2022

29.9M

32.5M

35.5M

39.2M

38.3M

36.0M

38.0M

42.8M

42.9M

20.2M

24.2M

34.4M

111213141516171819202122

Routes

120 destinations · 32 countries

Year-round111

Seasonal13

Cargo7

SCLComodoro Arturo Merino Benítez International AirportChile · Atlas Air2,615 km1,625 mi MAOEduardo Gomes International AirportBrazil · LATAM Cargo Brasil, Total Express2,697 km1,676 mi UIOMariscal Sucre International AirportEcuador · Atlas Air4,308 km2,677 mi MIAMiami International AirportUnited States · Atlas Air6,574 km4,085 mi LAXLos Angeles International AirportUnited States · Atlas Air9,919 km6,163 mi CKGChongqing Jiangbei International AirportChina · Ethiopian Airlines17,259 km10,724 mi XMNXiamen Gaoqi International AirportChina · Ethiopian Airlines18,446 km11,462 mi

Straight lines are great circles; rings mark true distance from GRU. Dashed: seasonal or charter. Blue: cargo. From the Wikipedia article “São Paulo/Guarulhos International Airport” (revision of 24 Sep 2026), CC BY-SA 4.0.

Airlines

41 airlines · destinations from GRU

Former hub of Master Top Airlines, VASP and Varig.

Airlines and destinations as the Routes list above has them; the figure is how many destinations each flies from GRU. Hubs from Wikidata. All airlines

Records & rankings

Ranked among 48,075 open airports · world · region · country

Passengers34.4M (2022)1 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 64KMEDIAN · 64KMORE · 103MMORE · 103M#61of 3,974 · #2 South America · #1 BR Longest runway3,700 m12,139 ft46 m · SHORT150 ft · SHORTMEDIAN · 975 mMEDIAN · 3,200 ftLONG · 5,300 mLONG · 17,388 ft=270of 29,858 · #10 South America · #2 BR Elevation750 m2,461 ft-386 m · LOW-1,266 ft · LOWMEDIAN · 240 mMEDIAN · 787 ftHIGH · 4,938 mHIGH · 16,200 ft=7,056of 43,403 · =1,000 South America · =677 BR AgeOpened 19852026 · NEWEST2026 · NEWESTMEDIAN · 1976MEDIAN · 1976OLDEST · 1902OLDEST · 1902=8,826of 15,079 · =132 South America · #72 BR Runways21 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 1MEDIAN · 1MORE · 8MORE · 8=715of 29,978 · =21 South America · =4 BR

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

10 channels

APPSAO PAULO APP119.800

ATISATIS127.750

CLDCLNC DEL121.000

GNDGUARULHOS GROUND121.700

OPSSAO PAULO OPS122.500

TWRGUARULHOS TWR132.750

ILSRWY 28L - IBC111.100

ILSRWY 28R - IGS111.900

ILSRWY 10L - IUC110.700

ILSRWY 10R - IGH111.700