--- title: "London to Barcelona (LHR → BCN): distance and flight time · Orbit" description: "London to Barcelona is 1,148 km (713 mi) great circle, an estimated 1h 56m 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/lhr-to-bcn --- LHR → BCN # London to Barcelona: distance, flight time and the route it really takes London Heathrow to Josep Tarradellas Barcelona-El Prat is 1,148 km of great circle — 713 mi — and an estimated 1h 56m in the air. Both ends are in Europe. **Great circle** 1,148 km 713 mi **Estimated in the air** 1h 56m block time **Furthest from equator** 51.5°N at 0% along **One lap of Earth** 2.9% of 40,075 km Of the [292 routes catalogued here](https://orbitflights.app/routes), this is the 245th longest. The London to Barcelona route drawn as a great circle arc on a globe ## What the aircraft actually flies over From London the path crosses United Kingdom, then France, then Spain. The furthest the great circle gets from the equator is 51.5°N, 0% 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. The heading barely moves: south out of London, south into Barcelona. Over this distance the curve has too little room to bend the compass. One economy seat on it is about 170 kg of CO₂e each way, counting non-CO₂ warming. [LHR–BCN carbon footprint →](https://orbitflights.app/tools/flight-carbon-calculator?from=LHR&to=BCN) [Map this route →](https://orbitflights.app/tools/flight-route-map?r=LHR-BCN) From LHR ## London Heathrow London, United Kingdom · Europe 51.5°N, 0.5°W [LHR airport →](https://orbitflights.app/airports/lhr) [Flights to London →](https://orbitflights.app/flights-to/london) To 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) ## London to Barcelona, asked and answered **How far is London to Barcelona?** London to Barcelona (LHR to BCN) is 1,148 km, or 713 mi, measured as great circle distance between the two airports. **How long is the flight from London to Barcelona?** About 1h 56m 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 London to Barcelona flight take?** The great circle passes over United Kingdom, then France, then Spain. It reaches 51.5°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? Orbit logs it in two taps and draws the arc on your own globe, along with every other flight you can remember. Free for your first 15. [Download now](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.qwertybit.orbit) ## Nearby routes [LHR → OSL London to Oslo 1,206 km](https://orbitflights.app/routes/lhr-to-osl) [AMS → BCN Amsterdam to Barcelona 1,241 km](https://orbitflights.app/routes/ams-to-bcn) [LHR → MAD London to Madrid 1,244 km](https://orbitflights.app/routes/lhr-to-mad) [LHR → PRG London to Prague 1,044 km](https://orbitflights.app/routes/lhr-to-prg) [LHR → VIE London to Vienna 1,275 km](https://orbitflights.app/routes/lhr-to-vie) [LHR → CPH London to Copenhagen 979 km](https://orbitflights.app/routes/lhr-to-cph) ## 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) --- Markdown copy of https://orbitflights.app/routes/lhr-to-bcn for language models and agents. Site index: https://orbitflights.app/llms.txt