International airport serving Madrid, Spain

Barajas

Adolfo Suárez Madrid–Barajas Airport is the main international airport serving Madrid, the capital of Spain, and its metropolitan area.

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Every way there

Valencia → Barajas
7120 km · quickest by air, 15h 35m · $1,050–1,620
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Zaragoza → Barajas
262 km · quickest by road, 4h 15m · €31–43
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Bilbao → Barajas
315 km · quickest by air, 3h 40m · €70–110
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Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.

The field note

What is in and around Barajas, ranked by how widely it is written about, how you reach it, and the nearest places where we have researched how people move.

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What Barajas has

YScheduled flightsMadrid (MAD), 3 km
FTrains and coachesTransitous carries 3 timetable feeds for this country, 0 with real-time; a stop for a place this small is unverified
NFerriesno crossing within 25 km
YDriving and taxiOpenStreetMap roads; cab fare from the country band
NBike and scooter share1 share feeds in Transitous, not surfaced yet
NCruisesno open itinerary source anywhere

Y routable now · F found, not yet implemented · N no source known. Nearest place with more: Coslada, 5 km.

40.472°, -3.561°

At 3,050 ha in area, it is the second-largest airport in Europe by physical size behind Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport. In 2025, 68.1 million passengers travelled through Madrid–Barajas, making it the country's busiest airport as well as Europe's fifth-busiest.

Text adapted from Wikipedia and Wikivoyage, CC BY-SA 4.0. Photograph: Diego Delso (see Commons), Wikimedia Commons.