- IATA
- MAD
- the code on your bag tag
- ICAO
- LEMD
- used by air traffic control
- Routes here
- 9
- in the catalogue
- From the equator
- 4,503 km
- 5,505 km from the North pole
Where it sits
40.5°N, 3.6°W puts MAD in the northern hemisphere, 4,503 km from the equator and 5,505 km from the North pole.
Of the 661 airports on this site it is the 171st most northerly, which makes it the 491st most southerly.
Straight through the middle
Straight down through the centre of the Earth comes out at 40.5°S, 176.4°E — 120 km from Hawke's Bay (NPE) in New Zealand, which is about as close to a true antipodal airport pair as this table gets.
What’s near it
The closest other airport on this site is Valencia (VLC), 286 km away in a straight line. Nothing else on this site is within 100 km.
Distances from MAD
Great circle distance and an estimated time in the air. The longest is Buenos Aires, at 10,087 km.
| To | Distance | Estimated | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Barcelona | BCN | 483 km | 1h 06m |
| London | LHR | 1,244 km | 2h 03m |
| Gran Canaria | LPA | 1,766 km | 2h 42m |
| Dubai | DXB | 5,650 km | 7h 31m |
| New York | JFK | 5,760 km | 7h 40m |
| Bogotá | BOG | 8,031 km | 10h 29m |
| São Paulo | GRU | 8,378 km | 10h 55m |
| Mexico City | MEX | 9,065 km | 11h 46m |
| Buenos Aires | EZE | 10,087 km | 13h 02m |
What’s on this page, and what isn’t
Every figure here is computed from the airport’s coordinates and the rest of the table — distances, bearings, ranks, the antipode. Nothing is written by hand, so nothing on it is a half-remembered fact about a terminal that was rebuilt in 2019.
Which also means what you won’t find: no passenger figures, no terminal maps, no airline lists, no live departures. Orbit is a logbook, not a flight tracker, and a page that invented those would be worse than one that leaves them out.
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