Santos Dumont Airport

ICAO SBRJ22.9104°S 43.1628°W3 m / 11 ftLarge airport

Santos Dumont Airport (IATA: SDU, ICAO: SBRJ) is a large airport in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. It opened in 1944. It has 2 runways; the longest is 1,323 m (4,341 ft). It is operated by Infraero. In 2022 it handled 10.2 million passengers.

Timeline

2 events · 1939–1944

13 AUG 1939

Disaster1939 Pan Am Sikorsky S-43 crash.14 killed

1944

OpenedSantos Dumont Airport opens.

From WikidataEvery airfield, 1903–2026

Runways & airfield

Schematic · N · © OpenStreetMap

02R/20L357° / 177° · LIT

LENGTH1,323 m4,341 ftWIDTH42 m138 ftSURFACEAsphalt

02L/20R357° / 177° · LIT

LENGTH1,260 m4,134 ftWIDTH30 m98 ftSURFACEAsphalt

Passengers per year

2011–2022

8.7M

9.2M

9.3M

9.9M

9.7M

9.0M

9.2M

9.1M

5.0M

6.8M

10.2M

111213141516171819202122

Routes

5 destinations · 1 country

Year-round3

GRUSão Paulo/Guarulhos–Governor André Franco Montoro International AirportBrazil · LATAM Brasil343 km213 mi CGHCongonhas–Deputado Freitas Nobre AirportBrazil · LATAM Brasil, Gol Transportes Aéreos365 km227 mi BSBPresidente Juscelino Kubitschek International AirportBrazil · LATAM Brasil, Gol Transportes Aéreos928 km577 mi

Seasonal2

BPSPorto Seguro International AirportBrazil · LATAM Brasil837 km520 mi SSADeputado Luiz Eduardo Magalhães International AirportBrazil · LATAM Brasil1,224 km761 mi

Most destinationsLATAM Brasil 5Gol Transportes Aéreos 2

Straight lines are great circles; rings mark true distance from SDU. Dashed: seasonal or charter. From the Wikipedia article “Santos Dumont Airport” (revision of 24 Sep 2026), CC BY-SA 4.0.

Records & rankings

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

Passengers10.2M (2022)1 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 64KMEDIAN · 64KMORE · 103MMORE · 103M#209of 3,974 · #12 South America · #6 BR Longest runway1,323 m4,341 ft46 m · SHORT150 ft · SHORTMEDIAN · 975 mMEDIAN · 3,200 ftLONG · 5,300 mLONG · 17,388 ft#8,504of 29,823 · #1,050 South America · #597 BR Elevation3 m11 ft-386 m · LOW-1,266 ft · LOWMEDIAN · 240 mMEDIAN · 787 ftHIGH · 4,938 mHIGH · 16,200 ft=42,239of 43,341 · =8,721 South America · =5,544 BR AgeOpened 19442026 · NEWEST2026 · NEWESTMEDIAN · 1976MEDIAN · 1976OLDEST · 1902OLDEST · 1902=2,300of 15,079 · =34 South America · =20 BR Runways21 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 1MEDIAN · 1MORE · 8MORE · 8=713of 29,943 · =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

5 channels

APPRIO CON119.350

ATISATIS132.650

CLDTFC121.050

GNDGND121.700

TWRRIO TWR118.700