Distance between Istanbul and Madrid (straight line)
The straight-line distance between Istanbul (Turkey) and Madrid (Spain) is 2,737 km (1,700 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
2,737 km
1,700 miles · straight line
Heading from Istanbul
279° (west)
initial compass bearing to Madrid
Flight time estimate, not a booking
~3 h 25 min
at about 800 km/h, in the air only
Straight-line (great-circle) distance, as the crow flies. The road distance is longer.
IstanbulMadridThe line is the great circle: straight over the globe, curved on a flat map.
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Istanbul to Madrid at a glance
- Straight-line distance
- 2,737 km (1,700 miles), as the crow flies
- Heading from Istanbul
- 279° (west) to Madrid
- Heading from Madrid
- 78° (east-northeast) to Istanbul
- Midpoint
- 41.8843° N, 12.5483° E, halfway along the straight line
- Flight time estimate, not a booking
- About 3 h 25 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.
- Istanbul, Turkey
- 41.0138° N, 28.9497° E (city centre)
- Madrid, Spain
- 40.4165° N, 3.7026° W (city centre)
Nearby city pairs
Other distances from Istanbul
- Istanbul to Cairo1,235 km
- Istanbul to Rome1,371 km
- Istanbul to Berlin1,736 km
- Istanbul to Amsterdam2,211 km
- Istanbul to Barcelona2,233 km
- Istanbul to Paris2,253 km
Other distances from Madrid
- Madrid to Lisbon503 km
- Madrid to Barcelona504 km
- Madrid to Paris1,052 km
- Madrid to London1,264 km
- Madrid to Rome1,365 km
- Madrid to Amsterdam1,481 km
Questions
Is 2,737 km (1,700 miles) the driving distance from Istanbul to Madrid?
No. 2,737 km (1,700 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 Istanbul and Madrid measured?
Along a great circle: the shortest line over the Earth's surface, from Istanbul's centre (41.0138° N, 28.9497° E) to Madrid's (40.4165° N, 3.7026° 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.