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title: "Flights to Barcelona: how far it is, and from where · Orbit"
description: "Great circle distances and estimated flying times to Barcelona, Spain, from 6 cities — 483 km at the nearest, 1,982 km at the furthest. Distance and geography, not fares."
url: https://orbitflights.app/flights-to/barcelona
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Spain · Europe

# Flights to Barcelona: how far it is, and from where

Barcelona sits at 41.3°N, 2.1°E, served by Josep Tarradellas Barcelona-El Prat (BCN). Below are 6 routes into it, with the great circle distance and an estimated flying time for each.

This page is about distance and geography — there are no fares or schedules on it. For tickets, use a booking site; for how far it actually is and what you fly over to get there, you’re in the right place.

**Routes here**
6
in the catalogue

**Nearest**
483 km
from Madrid

**Furthest**
1,982 km
from Bucharest

**Airports**
1
BCN

## How far Barcelona is from everywhere else

Great circle distance between the airports, and an estimate of the time in the air. Every row links to the route in full.

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

## What Barcelona adds to a map

Barcelona puts a pin in Spain, and Europe is one of the seven continents — the coarsest and most useful measure of how much of the world a flight map actually covers. The furthest route here, from Bucharest, is 1,982 km: 4.9% of one lap of the Earth in a single flight.

[What actually counts as a country visited →](https://orbitflights.app/blog/counting-countries)

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