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title: "Flights to Madrid: how far it is, and from where · Orbit"
description: "Great circle distances and estimated flying times to Madrid, Spain, from 9 cities — 483 km at the nearest, 10,087 km at the furthest. Distance and geography, not fares."
url: https://orbitflights.app/flights-to/madrid
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Spain · Europe

# 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.

| From                                                       |     | Distance  | Estimated | Direction                        |
| ---------------------------------------------------------- | --- | --------- | --------- | -------------------------------- |
| [Barcelona](https://orbitflights.app/routes/mad-to-bcn)    | BCN | 483 km    | 1h 06m    | barely any time shift            |
| [London](https://orbitflights.app/routes/lhr-to-mad)       | LHR | 1,244 km  | 2h 03m    | barely any time shift            |
| [Gran Canaria](https://orbitflights.app/routes/mad-to-lpa) | LPA | 1,766 km  | 2h 42m    | barely any time shift            |
| [Dubai](https://orbitflights.app/routes/mad-to-dxb)        | DXB | 5,650 km  | 7h 31m    | westbound — the easier direction |
| [New York](https://orbitflights.app/routes/mad-to-jfk)     | JFK | 5,760 km  | 7h 40m    | eastbound — the harder direction |
| [Bogotá](https://orbitflights.app/routes/mad-to-bog)       | BOG | 8,031 km  | 10h 29m   | eastbound — the harder direction |
| [São Paulo](https://orbitflights.app/routes/mad-to-gru)    | GRU | 8,378 km  | 10h 55m   | eastbound — the harder direction |
| [Mexico City](https://orbitflights.app/routes/mad-to-mex)  | MEX | 9,065 km  | 11h 46m   | eastbound — the harder direction |
| [Buenos Aires](https://orbitflights.app/routes/mad-to-eze) | EZE | 10,087 km | 13h 02m   | eastbound — 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.

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

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