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title: "Madrid to Mexico City (MAD → MEX): distance and flight time · Orbit"
description: "Madrid to Mexico City is 9,065 km (5,633 mi) great circle, an estimated 11h 46m 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-mex
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MAD → MEX

# Madrid to Mexico City: distance, flight time and the route it really takes

Adolfo Suárez Madrid–Barajas to Mexico City Benito Juárez is 9,065 km of great circle — 5,633 mi — and an estimated 11h 46m in the air. It crosses from Europe to North America.

**Great circle**
9,065 km
5,633 mi

**Estimated in the air**
11h 46m
block time

**Furthest from equator**
43.8°N
at 25% along

**One lap of Earth**
22.6%
of 40,075 km

Of the [292 routes catalogued here](https://orbitflights.app/routes), this is the 62nd longest.

The Madrid to Mexico City route drawn as a great circle arc on a globe

## What the aircraft actually flies over

From Madrid the path crosses Spain, then Portugal, then 6,391 km of open water, then the United States, then 1,700 km of open water, then Mexico.

The furthest the great circle gets from the equator is 43.8°N, 25% of the way along.

Flying the line that looks straight on a Mercator map — one constant compass bearing — would cover 9,409 km. That is 343 km further, about 4% more, and roughly 26m of extra flying.

Leaving Madrid the aircraft points west (288°); it arrives into Mexico City heading south-west (230°). That is 58° 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 1.28 t of CO₂e each way, counting non-CO₂ warming.

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

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

MEX

## Mexico City Benito Juárez

Mexico City, Mexico · North America

19.4°N, 99.1°W

[MEX airport →](https://orbitflights.app/airports/mex) [Flights to Mexico City →](https://orbitflights.app/flights-to/mexico-city)

## Madrid to Mexico City, asked and answered

**How far is Madrid to Mexico City?**
Madrid to Mexico City (MAD to MEX) is 9,065 km, or 5,633 mi, measured as great circle distance between the two airports.

**How long is the flight from Madrid to Mexico City?**
About 11h 46m 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 Mexico City flight take?**
The great circle passes over Spain, then Portugal, then 6,391 km of open water, then the United States, then 1,700 km of open water, then Mexico. It reaches 43.8°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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## Nearby routes

[MAD → GRU Madrid to São Paulo 8,378 km](https://orbitflights.app/routes/mad-to-gru) [MAD → EZE Madrid to Buenos Aires 10,087 km](https://orbitflights.app/routes/mad-to-eze) [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) [LIM → MEX Lima to Mexico City 4,245 km](https://orbitflights.app/routes/lim-to-mex)

## 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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