Airports in Brazil
129 airports with scheduled flights, busiest first.
Brazil has 129 airports with scheduled passenger flights and an IATA code, 28 of them large. The busiest are São Paulo/Guarulhos–Governor André Franco Montoro International Airport (GRU, 47.4 million passengers, ANAC, Sep 2025 – Aug 2026), Congonhas–Deputado Freitas Nobre Airport (CGH, 25.1 million passengers, ANAC, Sep 2025 – Aug 2026) and Rio de Janeiro Galeão – Tom Jobim International Airport (GIG, 18.6 million passengers, ANAC, Sep 2025 – Aug 2026). Juiz de Fora, Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo have more than one airport; a city code (RIO for Rio de Janeiro, SAO for Sao Paulo) stands for all of a city's airports on tickets and in flight searches.
Cities with more than one airport
Busiest routes
| Route | Distance | Passengers / year |
|---|---|---|
| CGH – SDU | 366 km | 3,995,762 |
| BSB – CGH | 869 km | 2,191,344 |
| CGH – POA | 836 km | 2,146,965 |
| CGH – CNF | 522 km | 2,051,670 |
| GRU – POA | 864 km | 1,939,098 |
| GRU – REC | 2,095 km | 1,925,053 |
| CGH – CWB | 331 km | 1,617,620 |
| CGH – SSA | 1,477 km | 1,599,198 |
| GIG – GRU | 337 km | 1,487,249 |
| CWB – GRU | 359 km | 1,457,725 |
| CNF – GRU | 494 km | 1,441,048 |
| CGH – REC | 2,123 km | 1,418,415 |
| GRU – SCL | 2,617 km | 1,380,638 |
| CGH – FLN | 487 km | 1,338,236 |
| GRU – SSA | 1,448 km | 1,305,608 |
| BSB – GRU | 851 km | 1,287,822 |
| AEP – GRU | 1,693 km | 1,282,051 |
| FOR – GRU | 2,336 km | 1,249,285 |
| GIG – POA | 1,121 km | 1,148,850 |
| FLN – GRU | 514 km | 1,073,390 |
Questions
Brazil has 129 airports with scheduled passenger flights and an IATA code, 28 of them large airports (OurAirports, 14 October 2026). Airfields without airline service are not counted.
São Paulo/Guarulhos–Governor André Franco Montoro International Airport (GRU), Congonhas–Deputado Freitas Nobre Airport (CGH), Rio de Janeiro Galeão – Tom Jobim International Airport (GIG), Presidente Juscelino Kubitschek International Airport (BSB), Tancredo Neves International Airport (CNF) and Viracopos International Airport (VCP), by passengers a year in open data. The full list with ICAO codes is on this page.
São Paulo/Guarulhos–Governor André Franco Montoro International Airport (GRU), with 47.4 million passengers (ANAC, Sep 2025 – Aug 2026).
Juiz de Fora (IZA, JDF), Rio de Janeiro (RIO: GIG, SDU) and Sao Paulo (SAO: GRU, CGH, VCP).