SAL · San Salvador (San Luis Talpa), El Salvador
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El Salvador International Airport
Salvadoran largest airport serving San Salvador located in San Luis Talpa, La Paz
Местное время аэропорта
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Часовой пояс
CST
America/El_Salvador · UTC-06:00
Условия в аэропорту
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Наземный доступ
31 km
Approximate distance to central San Salvador (San Luis Talpa).
Официальный источник
El Salvador International Airport
Wikipedia / reference summary
Местное время аэропорта
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Условия в аэропорту
Live airport weather is temporarily unavailable.
Наземный доступ
31 km
Approximate distance to central San Salvador (San Luis Talpa).
Nearby indexed airports: 5
Country capital
San Salvador
Languages
Spanish
Currency
USD ($)
Country area
21,041 km²
Passenger volume
Source note unavailable
Terminals
Not clearly stated
Runways
Not clearly stated
Opened / operator
Operational history note unavailable
Arrival bank
The airport is in an off-peak operating window, which is usually friendlier for arrival planning and backup connection analysis.
Hub airlines
Mixed or not clearly stated
El Salvador International Airport Saint Óscar Arnulfo Romero y Galdámez is a major commercial gateway for San Salvador (San Luis Talpa), El Salvador. San Salvador (San Luis Talpa)'s built-up core sits roughly 31 km from the terminal area. Operations run on America/El_Salvador (UTC-06:00, CST). Live weather is temporarily unavailable. With 5 other indexable airports in its surrounding network, it works well as a reference point for regional flight planning and timezone checks.
El Salvador International Airport Saint Óscar Arnulfo Romero y Galdámez, , previously known as Comalapa International Airport and as Comalapa Air Base to the military, is a joint-use civilian and military airport that serves San Salvador, El Salvador. It is located in the south central area of the country, in the city of San Luis Talpa, Department of La Paz, and occupies a triangle of 2,519.8 acres (1,019.7 ha), bordered by the Pacific Ocean on the south and the Jiboa River on the east, with the coastal highway to the northwest. It is close to sea level allowing aircraft to operate efficiently at maximum capacity. It is connected to the capital of San Salvador, El Salvador, by a four-lane motorway, with 42 kilometres (26 mi) travel in an average time of 30 minutes.
San Salvador (San Luis Talpa) sits in El Salvador, with San Salvador as the national capital. The wider market sits in Americas and more specifically Central America with common languages such as Spanish and currency signals including USD ($) Airport operations follow America/El_Salvador (CST, UTC-06:00).
The airport sits in the normal outer-ring range for a major metro gateway, so rail, shuttle coach, and ride-hail all matter when you judge the fastest arrival. The most useful route references on this page currently include Palmerola (XPL), Puerto San José (GSJ), Guatemala City (GUA), Tegucigalpa (TGU), which helps travelers compare not just distance but also arrival-side local time.
The surrounding country context covers about 6,029,976 people across roughly 21,041 km² which matters because airport pages rank better when they explain the broader travel market rather than only listing field coordinates.
The airport is currently outside its most obvious peak bank, which usually makes it easier to compare routes, transfers, and pickup timing with less schedule pressure.
Because airport pages sit at the intersection of route timing, local weather, city access, and timezone conversion, we intentionally keep both the code-level facts and the travel-planning context on the same page instead of treating the airport as a bare database record.
Traffic profile
Reference airport
Airline role
Mixed commercial service
Terminal footprint
See operational notes
Runway footprint
See operational notes
SAL is in the curated airport set because it has enough route, timezone, and market-planning value to deserve a richer operational page.
The airport sits inside a broader regional network with 5 nearby curated alternatives, so airline choice and connection strategy matter more here than at a single-airport market.
The current enrichment stack does not expose a clean operator record for every field yet, so this page leans on source-backed operational notes rather than inventing one.
These operational notes are synthesized from the airport summary source at El Salvador International Airport, then blended with the local timezone, route, and city-access data already on this page.
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| Destination | Route code | Estimated window | Arrival local time now |
|---|---|---|---|
| Palmerola | XPL | 1h 4m | 03:00 AM |
| Puerto San José | GSJ | 1h 5m | 03:00 AM |
| Guatemala City | GUA | 1h 5m | 03:00 AM |
| Tegucigalpa | TGU | 1h 6m | 03:00 AM |
Palmerola (XPL) is one of the most useful comparison routes for SAL because it gives travelers an immediate sense of a typical 1h 4m window and what the arrival-side clock looks like right now at 03:00 AM.
Puerto San José (GSJ) is one of the most useful comparison routes for SAL because it gives travelers an immediate sense of a typical 1h 5m window and what the arrival-side clock looks like right now at 03:00 AM.
Guatemala City (GUA) is one of the most useful comparison routes for SAL because it gives travelers an immediate sense of a typical 1h 5m window and what the arrival-side clock looks like right now at 03:00 AM.
Tegucigalpa (TGU) is one of the most useful comparison routes for SAL because it gives travelers an immediate sense of a typical 1h 6m window and what the arrival-side clock looks like right now at 03:00 AM.
The airport sits in the normal outer-ring range for a major metro gateway, so rail, shuttle coach, and ride-hail all matter when you judge the fastest arrival.
San Salvador is the nearest mapped city anchor in the current dataset, which makes it the cleanest companion page when travelers want to switch from airport timing into local city timing.
El Salvador International Airport Saint Óscar Arnulfo Romero y Galdámez has 5 nearby indexed airport alternatives, which makes backup departures and diversion logic part of real planning instead of a theoretical edge case.
El Salvador International Airport Saint Óscar Arnulfo Romero y Galdámez is still useful as a route-planning anchor even when the current source summary does not spell out a long airline list, because nearby-airport context and time-zone differences are often what travelers need first.
The route timing references on this page are designed to answer the practical question behind most airport searches: if you leave or arrive here, what kind of cross-timezone planning burden are you taking on right away? The strongest current examples are Palmerola (XPL), Puerto San José (GSJ), Guatemala City (GUA).
Planning checkpoints
Ilopango International Airport (ILS) is part of the same regional catchment conversation as El Salvador International Airport Saint Óscar Arnulfo Romero y Galdámez, which matters when travelers compare alternate departures, diversions, backup connections, or surface-transfer options within the same broad metro or corridor.
Palmerola International Airport (XPL) is part of the same regional catchment conversation as El Salvador International Airport Saint Óscar Arnulfo Romero y Galdámez, which matters when travelers compare alternate departures, diversions, backup connections, or surface-transfer options within the same broad metro or corridor.
San José Airport (GSJ) is part of the same regional catchment conversation as El Salvador International Airport Saint Óscar Arnulfo Romero y Galdámez, which matters when travelers compare alternate departures, diversions, backup connections, or surface-transfer options within the same broad metro or corridor.
La Aurora International Airport (GUA) is part of the same regional catchment conversation as El Salvador International Airport Saint Óscar Arnulfo Romero y Galdámez, which matters when travelers compare alternate departures, diversions, backup connections, or surface-transfer options within the same broad metro or corridor.
Toncontín Airport (TGU) is part of the same regional catchment conversation as El Salvador International Airport Saint Óscar Arnulfo Romero y Galdámez, which matters when travelers compare alternate departures, diversions, backup connections, or surface-transfer options within the same broad metro or corridor.
Airport pages work best when they connect to nearby city timing, compare routes, and reusable planning tools. This block is here so travelers can jump from runway-level facts into meeting coordination and city-to-city scheduling without starting over.
Questions
El Salvador International Airport Saint Óscar Arnulfo Romero y Galdámez is in the America/El_Salvador timezone (UTC-06:00, CST).
The IATA code for El Salvador International Airport Saint Óscar Arnulfo Romero y Galdámez is SAL.
El Salvador International Airport Saint Óscar Arnulfo Romero y Galdámez is located in San Salvador (San Luis Talpa), El Salvador at coordinates 13.4445° N, 89.0558° W, with an elevation of 101 ft (31 m).
El Salvador International Airport Saint Óscar Arnulfo Romero y Galdámez sits roughly 31 km from the nearest mapped city center for San Salvador (San Luis Talpa).
Palmerola (XPL) is one of the closest route references on this page, with an estimated travel window of 1h 4m and an arrival-side local time of 03:00 AM.
El Salvador International Airport Saint Óscar Arnulfo Romero y Galdámez sits in El Salvador. The national capital is San Salvador, common languages include Spanish, and the market uses USD ($) for day-to-day pricing.
