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Flights to Madrid: how far it is, and from where

Madrid sits at 40.5°N, 3.6°W, served by Adolfo Suárez Madrid–Barajas (MAD). Below are 9 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
9
in the catalogue
Nearest
483 km
from Barcelona
Furthest
10,087 km
from Buenos Aires
Airports
1
MAD

How far Madrid 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.

FromDistanceEstimatedDirection
BarcelonaBCN483 km1h 06mbarely any time shift
LondonLHR1,244 km2h 03mbarely any time shift
Gran CanariaLPA1,766 km2h 42mbarely any time shift
DubaiDXB5,650 km7h 31mwestbound — the easier direction
New YorkJFK5,760 km7h 40meastbound — the harder direction
BogotáBOG8,031 km10h 29meastbound — the harder direction
São PauloGRU8,378 km10h 55meastbound — the harder direction
Mexico CityMEX9,065 km11h 46meastbound — the harder direction
Buenos AiresEZE10,087 km13h 02meastbound — the harder direction

What Madrid adds to a map

Madrid 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 Buenos Aires, is 10,087 km: 25.2% of one lap of the Earth in a single flight.

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