Distance between Barcelona and Chicago (straight line)
The straight-line distance between Barcelona (Spain) and Chicago (United States) is 4,402 miles (7,084 km), as the crow flies, measured from one city centre to the other. It is the shortest path over the Earth's surface; any road between them is longer.
Straight-line distance
4,402 miles
7,084 km · straight line
Heading from Barcelona
304° (northwest)
initial compass bearing to Chicago
Flight time estimate, not a booking
~8 h 50 min
at about 800 km/h, in the air only
Straight-line (great-circle) distance, as the crow flies. The road distance is longer.
BarcelonaChicagoThe line is the great circle: straight over the globe, curved on a flat map.
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Barcelona to Chicago at a glance
- Straight-line distance
- 4,402 miles (7,084 km), as the crow flies
- Heading from Barcelona
- 304° (northwest) to Chicago
- Heading from Chicago
- 57° (east-northeast) to Barcelona
- Midpoint
- 51.4374° N, 42.5413° W, halfway along the straight line
- Flight time estimate, not a booking
- About 8 h 50 min in the air at a cruising speed of 800 km/h along the straight line. Take-off, landing, the real flight path and any stops add more.
- Barcelona, Spain
- 41.3888° N, 2.1590° E (city centre)
- Chicago, United States
- 41.8500° N, 87.6500° W (city centre)
Nearby city pairs
Other distances from Barcelona
- Barcelona to Madrid313 miles
- Barcelona to Paris516 miles
- Barcelona to Rome535 miles
- Barcelona to Lisbon625 miles
- Barcelona to London708 miles
- Barcelona to Amsterdam770 miles
Other distances from Chicago
- Chicago to Toronto437 miles
- Chicago to New York712 miles
- Chicago to Houston939 miles
- Chicago to Miami1,189 miles
- Chicago to Las Vegas1,520 miles
- Chicago to Mexico City1,689 miles
Questions
Is 4,402 miles (7,084 km) the driving distance from Barcelona to Chicago?
No. 4,402 miles (7,084 km) is the straight-line distance between the two city centres, as the crow flies. A road route is always longer, because roads bend around terrain and water, and MapGO does not measure driving distance or travel time.
How is the distance between Barcelona and Chicago measured?
Along a great circle: the shortest line over the Earth's surface, from Barcelona's centre (41.3888° N, 2.1590° E) to Chicago's (41.8500° N, 87.6500° W). This is what "straight-line distance" and "as the crow flies" mean on a globe. On a flat map the line can look curved.
How accurate is this distance?
Within about 0.5% for the two centre points. The figure treats the Earth as a sphere (the haversine formula), while the real Earth is slightly flattened, which shifts a long straight-line distance by up to about 0.5%. Measuring from another part of either city changes it more, since a large city can be tens of kilometres across.
Computed by MapGO from each city's centre point (GeoNames) with the haversine formula. All distances on this page are straight lines over the Earth's surface, not road distances.