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title: "Barcelona to Bucharest (BCN → OTP): distance and flight time · Orbit"
description: "Barcelona to Bucharest is 1,982 km (1,232 mi) great circle, an estimated 2h 58m in the air. The route, what it flies over, and why the short way is not the straight line on a map."
url: https://orbitflights.app/routes/bcn-to-otp
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BCN → OTP

# Barcelona to Bucharest: distance, flight time and the route it really takes

Josep Tarradellas Barcelona-El Prat to Bucharest Henri Coandă is 1,982 km of great circle — 1,232 mi — and an estimated 2h 58m in the air. Both ends are in Europe.

**Great circle**
1,982 km
1,232 mi

**Estimated in the air**
2h 58m
block time

**Furthest from equator**
44.6°N
at 100% along

**One lap of Earth**
4.9%
of 40,075 km

Of the [292 routes catalogued here](https://orbitflights.app/routes), this is the 198th longest.

The Barcelona to Bucharest route drawn as a great circle arc on a globe

## What the aircraft actually flies over

From Barcelona the path crosses 585 km of open water, then Italy, then Bosnia and Herzegovina, then Serbia, then Romania.

The furthest the great circle gets from the equator is 44.6°N, 100% of the way along.

Holding a single compass bearing the whole way would cover almost exactly the same ground, so on this route the flat map and the globe agree.

Leaving Barcelona the aircraft points east (71°); it arrives into Bucharest heading east (88°). That is 17° of drift without a single turn — the compass moves because the path is a curve on a sphere, not because the aircraft does.

One economy seat on it is about 294 kg of CO₂e each way, counting non-CO₂ warming.

[BCN–OTP carbon footprint →](https://orbitflights.app/tools/flight-carbon-calculator?from=BCN&to=OTP) [Map this route →](https://orbitflights.app/tools/flight-route-map?r=BCN-OTP)

From

BCN

## Josep Tarradellas Barcelona-El Prat

Barcelona, Spain · Europe

41.3°N, 2.1°E

[BCN airport →](https://orbitflights.app/airports/bcn) [Flights to Barcelona →](https://orbitflights.app/flights-to/barcelona)

To

OTP

## Bucharest Henri Coandă

Bucharest, Romania · Europe

44.6°N, 26.1°E

[OTP airport →](https://orbitflights.app/airports/otp) [Flights to Bucharest →](https://orbitflights.app/flights-to/bucharest)

## Barcelona to Bucharest, asked and answered

**How far is Barcelona to Bucharest?**
Barcelona to Bucharest (BCN to OTP) is 1,982 km, or 1,232 mi, measured as great circle distance between the two airports.

**How long is the flight from Barcelona to Bucharest?**
About 2h 58m in the air. That is an estimate from the distance at a typical airliner block speed, plus half an hour for taxi, climb and descent; published schedules vary with winds and routing.

**What route does a Barcelona to Bucharest flight take?**
The great circle passes over 585 km of open water, then Italy, then Bosnia and Herzegovina, then Serbia, then Romania. It reaches 44.6°N at its furthest from the equator.

## Where these numbers come from

Distances are computed from the two airports’ own coordinates, not looked up from published routes. Times are estimates, not schedules.

[Why the shortest path is a curve →](https://orbitflights.app/blog/great-circle-routes-explained)

## Flown this one?

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[Download now](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.qwertybit.orbit)

## Nearby routes

[LHR → OTP London to Bucharest 2,105 km](https://orbitflights.app/routes/lhr-to-otp) [OTP → CDG Bucharest to Paris 1,851 km](https://orbitflights.app/routes/otp-to-cdg) [OTP → MXP Bucharest to Milan 1,366 km](https://orbitflights.app/routes/otp-to-mxp) [OTP → BER Bucharest to Berlin 1,267 km](https://orbitflights.app/routes/otp-to-ber) [AMS → BCN Amsterdam to Barcelona 1,241 km](https://orbitflights.app/routes/ams-to-bcn) [LHR → BCN London to Barcelona 1,148 km](https://orbitflights.app/routes/lhr-to-bcn)

## Further reading

[How many miles do you have to fly around the world?](https://orbitflights.app/blog/how-many-miles-to-fly-around-the-world) [What is on the exact opposite side of the world?](https://orbitflights.app/blog/opposite-side-of-the-world) [What's actually worth counting in a flight log](https://orbitflights.app/blog/what-is-worth-counting-in-a-flight-log)

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