- IATA
- BCN
- the code on your bag tag
- ICAO
- LEBL
- used by air traffic control
- Opened
- 1916
- per Wikidata
- Passengers
- 57.5M
- in 2025
History & name
Josep Tarradellas Barcelona-El Prat Airport opened in 1916 and is named after the Catalan politician Josep Tarradellas i Joan (1899-1988), as well as El Prat de Llobregat and Barcelona. Operated by Aena, it lies 12 km from Barcelona with three runways up to 3,353 m, and handled 57.5 million passengers in 2025.
Named afterJosep Tarradellas i Joan — Spanish Catalan politician (1899-1988)
Read more: Wikipedia ↗ · Wikidata ↗
At a glance
- Full name
- Josep Tarradellas Barcelona-El Prat Airport
- Serves
- Barcelona, Spain
- City centre
- 12 km from Barcelona
- Opened
- 1916
- Operator
- Aena
- Passengers
- 57.5 million in 2025
- Runways
- 3 runways, longest 3,353 m
- Elevation
- 12 ft (4 m)
- Website
- aena.es ↗
Where it sits
41.3°N, 2.1°E puts BCN in the northern hemisphere, 4,592 km from the equator and 5,416 km from the North pole.
Of the 661 airports on this site it is the 157th most northerly, which makes it the 505th most southerly.
Straight through the middle
Straight down through the centre of the Earth comes out at 41.3°S, 177.9°W. The nearest airport on this site to that point is Hawke's Bay (NPE) in New Zealand, still 486 km away — most of the planet's antipodes are ocean.
What’s near it
The closest other airport on this site is Palma de Mallorca (PMI), 202 km away in a straight line. Nothing else on this site is within 100 km.
Where these facts come from
The profile is looked up, not written from memory: type, runways, elevation and the official website from OurAirports (public domain); opening year, namesake, operator and passenger count from Wikidata (CC0); the city centre from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0). Where a source has nothing, the line is left out. Distances, neighbours and the antipode are computed from the coordinates.
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