District in San Salvador Department, El Salvador

Ilopango

Ilopango is a town and district in the San Salvador department of El Salvador.

Every way there

Palmerola → Ilopango
Train, bus, flight, ferry and road, side by side
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Guatemala City → Ilopango
184 km · quickest by road, 5h 8m · $20–28
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San Pedro Sula → Ilopango
232 km · quickest by road, 7h 2m · $28–39
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Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.

The field note

What is in and around Ilopango, ranked by how widely it is written about, how you reach it, and the nearest places where we have researched how people move.

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What Ilopango has

YScheduled flightsSan Salvador (San Luis Talpa) (SAL), 29 km
NTrains and coachesno timetable feed known for this country
NFerriesno crossing within 25 km
YDriving and taxiOpenStreetMap roads; cab fare from the country band
NBike and scooter shareno share feed known
NCruisesno open itinerary source anywhere

Y routable now · F found, not yet implemented · N no source known. Nearest place with more: Delgado, 6 km.

13.700°, -89.117°

It is a few miles east of the nation's capital, San Salvador and part of the San Salvador metropolitan area. It is located near Lake Ilopango, the country's largest lake at 72 square kilometers.

How locals move

Getting around Ilopango the local way

Get inFrom the airport offers limited colectivo services up into several major hotels in San Salvador.
Go nextThe rent a plane service is available to go to Santa Ana, San Miguel and La Union (on Tamarindo, near the Gulf of Fonseca where you can board a ferry to take you to the other Islands).

From Wikivoyage: San Salvador, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us. Last edited 2026-09.

Text adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Photograph: US Embassy San Salvador (see Commons), Wikimedia Commons.