Where is SDU airport?

SDU is a large airport in Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, at -22.9104, -43.1628, 3 m above sea level.

Which other airports serve Rio de Janeiro?

Rio de Janeiro has 2 airports: SDU, GIG. The city code RIO stands for all of them on tickets and in flight searches.

What time zone is SDU in?

SDU is in the America/Sao_Paulo time zone, UTC−3.

How many passengers use SDU?

6,348,973 passengers in Sep 2025 – Aug 2026, according to ANAC, the Brazilian civil aviation agency (scheduled flights).

Santos Dumont Airport opened in 1944.

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Large airport in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

IATA code: SDU
ICAO code: SBRJ
City code: RIO; All Rio de Janeiro airports
Passengers: 6,348,973; Sep 2025 – Aug 2026
Nonstop routes: 13; With open traffic data
Time zone: UTC−3; America/Sao_Paulo
Elevation: 3 m; 10 ft
Runways: 2; Longest 1,323 m

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About SDU

Santos Dumont Airport is a large airport serving Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. It opened in 1944 and is run by Infraero. 6,348,973 passengers used it in Sep 2025 – Aug 2026. Open traffic data shows 13 nonstop routes from SDU. On tickets, the city code RIO covers it together with the other Rio de Janeiro airports.

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Busiest nonstop routes from SDU

Route	To	Distance	Passengers / year
SDU → CGH	Sao Paulo, Brazil	366 km	3,995,762
SDU → BSB	Brasília, Brazil	926 km	989,060
SDU → VCP	Sao Paulo, Brazil	407 km	558,833
SDU → CNF	Belo Horizonte, Brazil	372 km	392,475
SDU → GRU	Sao Paulo, Brazil	344 km	330,650
SDU → SSA	Salvador, Brazil	1,220 km	54,121
SDU → BPS	Porto Seguro, Brazil	834 km	26,756
SDU → GIG	Rio de Janeiro, Brazil	14 km	327
SDU → VIX	Vitória, Brazil	418 km	302
SDU → CWB	São José dos Pinhais, Brazil	676 km	288
SDU → RAO	Ribeirão Preto, Brazil	515 km	172
SDU → SJK	São José dos Campos, Brazil	279 km	120
SDU → SJP	São José do Rio Preto, Brazil	686 km	107

Passengers on the route, both directions, over the period of each source: US DOT / BTS T-100 (Aug 2025 – Jul 2026) for routes touching the US, Eurostat (2024) for routes reported by European airports, ANAC (Sep 2025 – Aug 2026) for routes in and out of Brazil. Routes outside these are not counted.

Other airports in Rio de Janeiro

Code	Airport	Serves	Distance
GIG	Rio de Janeiro Galeão – Tom Jobim International Airport	Rio de Janeiro	14 km

All Rio de Janeiro airports and the distances between them →

Nearest airports

Code	Airport	Serves	Distance
CFB	Cabo Frio Airport	Cabo Frio, Brazil	112 km
JDF	Francisco de Assis Airport	Juiz de Fora, Brazil	127 km
IZA	Presidente Itamar Franco Airport	Juiz de Fora, Brazil	155 km
CAW	Bartolomeu Lisandro Airport	Campos dos Goytacazes, Brazil	234 km
SJK	Professor Urbano Ernesto Stumpf Airport	São José dos Campos, Brazil	278 km

Distance from SDU to the major hubs

Route	To	Distance	Passengers / year
SDU → LHR	London, United Kingdom	9,234 km	—
SDU → DXB	Dubai, United Arab Emirates	11,880 km	—
SDU → CDG	Paris, France	9,166 km	—
SDU → FRA	Frankfurt, Germany	9,550 km	—
SDU → IST	Istanbul, Turkey	10,259 km	—
SDU → AMS	Amsterdam, Netherlands	9,542 km	—
SDU → JFK	New York, United States	7,717 km	—
SDU → ATL	Atlanta, United States	7,635 km	—
SDU → LAX	Los Angeles, United States	10,143 km	—
SDU → SIN	Singapore, Singapore	15,750 km	—
SDU → HND	Tokyo, Japan	18,575 km	—
SDU → DOH	Doha, Qatar	11,521 km	—

Runways

Runway	Length	Width	Surface	Lights
02R/20L	1,323 m	42 m	Asphalt	Yes
02L/20R	1,260 m	30 m	Asphalt	Yes

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Location

Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil · -22.9104, -43.1628

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Questions

Santos Dumont Airport has the IATA code SDU and the ICAO code SBRJ. Airlines and tickets use the three-letter IATA code; pilots and air traffic control use the four-letter ICAO code.

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