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title: "BCN — Josep Tarradellas Barcelona-El Prat Airport, Barcelona · Orbit"
description: "Josep Tarradellas Barcelona-El Prat Airport (BCN/LEBL) serves Barcelona, Spain. Opened 1916, named after Josep Tarradellas i Joan, 57.5 million passengers in 2025."
url: https://orbitflights.app/airports/bcn
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Barcelona · Spain · Europe

# BCN — Josep Tarradellas Barcelona-El Prat

Josep Tarradellas Barcelona-El Prat Airport serves Barcelona, Spain, 12 km from the city centre, and sits at 41.3°N, 2.1°E. This site carries 6 routes touching it, with the great circle distance for each.

**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 after **Josep Tarradellas i Joan** — Spanish Catalan politician (1899-1988)

Read more: [Wikipedia ↗](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barcelona%E2%80%93El%5FPrat%5FAirport) · [Wikidata ↗](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q56973)

## 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)

**Map**
[Open in Google Maps ↗](https://www.google.com/maps/search/?api=1&query=41.29710,2.07850)

**Website**
[aena.es ↗](https://www.aena.es/en/josep-tarradellas-barcelona-el-prat.html)

## 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.

## Distances from BCN

Great circle distance and an estimated time in the air. The longest is Bucharest, at 1,982 km.

| To                                                      |     | Distance | Estimated |
| ------------------------------------------------------- | --- | -------- | --------- |
| [Madrid](https://orbitflights.app/routes/mad-to-bcn)    | MAD | 483 km   | 1h 06m    |
| [Rome](https://orbitflights.app/routes/bcn-to-fco)      | FCO | 848 km   | 1h 33m    |
| [Paris](https://orbitflights.app/routes/cdg-to-bcn)     | CDG | 858 km   | 1h 34m    |
| [London](https://orbitflights.app/routes/lhr-to-bcn)    | LHR | 1,148 km | 1h 56m    |
| [Amsterdam](https://orbitflights.app/routes/ams-to-bcn) | AMS | 1,241 km | 2h 03m    |
| [Bucharest](https://orbitflights.app/routes/bcn-to-otp) | OTP | 1,982 km | 2h 58m    |

[Distance from BCN to any airport →](https://orbitflights.app/distance?from=BCN&to=OTP) [Map a trip from BCN →](https://orbitflights.app/tools/flight-route-map?r=BCN-OTP)

## Where these facts come from

The profile is looked up, not written from memory: type, runways, elevation and the official website from [OurAirports](https://ourairports.com/data/) (public domain); opening year, namesake, operator and passenger count from [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/) (CC0); the city centre from [GeoNames](https://www.geonames.org/) (CC BY 4.0). Where a source has nothing, the line is left out. Distances, neighbours and the antipode are computed from the coordinates.

What you won’t find: terminal maps, airline lists, shops or live departures. Orbit is a logbook, not a flight tracker, and a page that guessed at those would be worse than one that leaves them out.

[Measure BCN to anywhere →](https://orbitflights.app/distance) [Flights to Barcelona →](https://orbitflights.app/flights-to/barcelona)

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