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title: "Madrid to Buenos Aires (MAD → EZE): distance and flight time · Orbit"
description: "Madrid to Buenos Aires is 10,087 km (6,267 mi) great circle, an estimated 13h 02m 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/mad-to-eze
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MAD → EZE

# Madrid to Buenos Aires: distance, flight time and the route it really takes

Adolfo Suárez Madrid–Barajas to Ezeiza International Airport - Ministro Pistarini is 10,087 km of great circle — 6,267 mi — and an estimated 13h 02m in the air. It crosses from Europe to South America.

**Great circle**
10,087 km
6,267 mi

**Estimated in the air**
13h 02m
block time

**Furthest from equator**
40.5°N
at 0% along

**One lap of Earth**
25.2%
of 40,075 km

Of the [292 routes catalogued here](https://orbitflights.app/routes), this is the 40th longest.

The Madrid to Buenos Aires route drawn as a great circle arc on a globe

## What the aircraft actually flies over

From Madrid the path crosses Spain, then 5,598 km of open water, then Brazil, then Uruguay.

The furthest the great circle gets from the equator is 40.5°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.

It arrives on almost the heading it left on — south-west at both ends. The two airports sit at nearly mirrored latitudes, so the arc climbs away from the equator and falls back to it by the same amount, and the compass ends up where it started.

One economy seat on it is about 1.43 t of CO₂e each way, counting non-CO₂ warming.

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

From

MAD

## Adolfo Suárez Madrid–Barajas

Madrid, Spain · Europe

40.5°N, 3.6°W

[MAD airport →](https://orbitflights.app/airports/mad) [Flights to Madrid →](https://orbitflights.app/flights-to/madrid)

To

EZE

## Ezeiza International Airport - Ministro Pistarini

Buenos Aires, Argentina · South America

34.8°S, 58.5°W

[EZE airport →](https://orbitflights.app/airports/eze)

## Madrid to Buenos Aires, asked and answered

**How far is Madrid to Buenos Aires?**
Madrid to Buenos Aires (MAD to EZE) is 10,087 km, or 6,267 mi, measured as great circle distance between the two airports.

**How long is the flight from Madrid to Buenos Aires?**
About 13h 02m 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 Madrid to Buenos Aires flight take?**
The great circle passes over Spain, then 5,598 km of open water, then Brazil, then Uruguay. It reaches 40.5°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?

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

## Nearby routes

[MAD → MEX Madrid to Mexico City 9,065 km](https://orbitflights.app/routes/mad-to-mex) [EZE → SYD Buenos Aires to Sydney 11,767 km](https://orbitflights.app/routes/eze-to-syd) [MAD → GRU Madrid to São Paulo 8,378 km](https://orbitflights.app/routes/mad-to-gru) [MAD → BOG Madrid to Bogotá 8,031 km](https://orbitflights.app/routes/mad-to-bog) [MAD → JFK Madrid to New York 5,760 km](https://orbitflights.app/routes/mad-to-jfk) [MAD → DXB Madrid to Dubai 5,650 km](https://orbitflights.app/routes/mad-to-dxb)

## 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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