Distance between Barcelona and Lisbon (straight line)
The straight-line distance between Barcelona (Spain) and Lisbon (Portugal) is 1,006 km (625 miles), 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
1,006 km
625 miles · straight line
Heading from Barcelona
257° (west-southwest)
initial compass bearing to Lisbon
Flight time estimate, not a booking
~1 h 15 min
at about 800 km/h, in the air only
Straight-line (great-circle) distance, as the crow flies. The road distance is longer.
BarcelonaLisbonThe line is the great circle: straight over the globe, curved on a flat map.
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Barcelona to Lisbon at a glance
- Straight-line distance
- 1,006 km (625 miles), as the crow flies
- Heading from Barcelona
- 257° (west-southwest) to Lisbon
- Heading from Lisbon
- 69° (east-northeast) to Barcelona
- Midpoint
- 40.1946° N, 3.6063° W, halfway along the straight line
- Flight time estimate, not a booking
- About 1 h 15 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)
- Lisbon, Portugal
- 38.7251° N, 9.1498° W (city centre)
Nearby city pairs
Other distances from Barcelona
- Barcelona to Madrid504 km
- Barcelona to Paris830 km
- Barcelona to Rome862 km
- Barcelona to London1,139 km
- Barcelona to Amsterdam1,239 km
- Barcelona to Berlin1,500 km
Other distances from Lisbon
- Lisbon to Madrid503 km
- Lisbon to Paris1,453 km
- Lisbon to London1,585 km
- Lisbon to Amsterdam1,863 km
- Lisbon to Rome1,865 km
- Lisbon to Berlin2,313 km
Questions
Is 1,006 km (625 miles) the driving distance from Barcelona to Lisbon?
No. 1,006 km (625 miles) 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 Lisbon measured?
Along a great circle: the shortest line over the Earth's surface, from Barcelona's centre (41.3888° N, 2.1590° E) to Lisbon's (38.7251° N, 9.1498° 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.