--- title: "MAD — Adolfo Suárez Madrid–Barajas Airport, Madrid · Orbit" description: "Adolfo Suárez Madrid–Barajas Airport (MAD/LEMD) serves Madrid, Spain. Opened 1928, 66.2 million passengers in 2024, 14 km from Madrid." url: https://orbitflights.app/airports/mad --- Madrid · Spain · Europe # MAD — Adolfo Suárez Madrid–Barajas Adolfo Suárez Madrid–Barajas Airport serves Madrid, Spain, 14 km from the city centre, and sits at 40.5°N, 3.6°W. This site carries 9 routes touching it, with the great circle distance for each. **IATA** MAD the code on your bag tag **ICAO** LEMD used by air traffic control **Opened** 1928 per Wikidata **Passengers** 66.2M in 2024 ## History & name Adolfo Suárez Madrid–Barajas Airport opened in 1928 and takes its name from Madrid and Barajas. Operated by ENAIRE, it lies 14 km from Madrid at an elevation of 1,998 ft and handled 66.2 million passengers in 2024 across 4 runways, the longest 4,350 m. Read more: [Wikipedia ↗](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolfo%5FSu%C3%A1rez%5FMadrid%E2%80%93Barajas%5FAirport) · [Wikidata ↗](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q166276) ## At a glance **Full name** Adolfo Suárez Madrid–Barajas Airport **Serves** Madrid, Spain **City centre** 14 km from Madrid **Opened** 1928 **Operator** ENAIRE **Passengers** 66.2 million in 2024 **Runways** 4 runways, longest 4,350 m **Elevation** 1,998 ft (609 m) **Map** [Open in Google Maps ↗](https://www.google.com/maps/search/?api=1&query=40.49340,-3.57220) **Website** [aena.es ↗](https://www.aena.es/en/adolfo-suarez-madrid-barajas.html) ## 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](https://orbitflights.app/routes/mad-to-bcn) | BCN | 483 km | 1h 06m | | [London](https://orbitflights.app/routes/lhr-to-mad) | LHR | 1,244 km | 2h 03m | | [Gran Canaria](https://orbitflights.app/routes/mad-to-lpa) | LPA | 1,766 km | 2h 42m | | [Dubai](https://orbitflights.app/routes/mad-to-dxb) | DXB | 5,650 km | 7h 31m | | [New York](https://orbitflights.app/routes/mad-to-jfk) | JFK | 5,760 km | 7h 40m | | [Bogotá](https://orbitflights.app/routes/mad-to-bog) | BOG | 8,031 km | 10h 29m | | [São Paulo](https://orbitflights.app/routes/mad-to-gru) | GRU | 8,378 km | 10h 55m | | [Mexico City](https://orbitflights.app/routes/mad-to-mex) | MEX | 9,065 km | 11h 46m | | [Buenos Aires](https://orbitflights.app/routes/mad-to-eze) | EZE | 10,087 km | 13h 02m | [Distance from MAD to any airport →](https://orbitflights.app/distance?from=MAD&to=EZE) [Map a trip from MAD →](https://orbitflights.app/tools/flight-route-map?r=MAD-EZE) ## 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 MAD to anywhere →](https://orbitflights.app/distance) [Flights to Madrid →](https://orbitflights.app/flights-to/madrid) ## Flown through MAD? Orbit knows all 8,801 airports offline and works out the distance the moment you enter two codes. [Download now](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.qwertybit.orbit) --- Markdown copy of https://orbitflights.app/airports/mad for language models and agents. Site index: https://orbitflights.app/llms.txt