✈ BCN → GIG
10H 54M FLIGHT. YOU WILL CRY DURING A ROMCOM. IT'S FINE.
Flight from Barcelona to Rio de Janeiro
From El Prat (BCN), Spain Europe → Galeão (GIG), Brazil South America
↔ Flying the other way? Rio de Janeiro → Barcelona
How long is the flight from Barcelona to Rio de Janeiro?
A nonstop flight from Barcelona (BCN) to Rio de Janeiro (GIG) takes about 10 hours 54 minutes, covering a great-circle distance of 5,295 miles (8,522 km). Actual scheduled time varies by airline, routing, and wind — expect ±15 to 30 minutes from this estimate.
Avg flight time
10h 54m
Nonstop, scheduled
Distance
5,295 mi
8,522 km · great-circle
Avg speed
782 km/h
Door-to-door including taxi
Time zones & jet lag
Barcelona timezone
UTC+2
Europe/Madrid
Rio de Janeiro timezone
UTC-3
America/Sao_Paulo
Time difference
-5h
5 hours behind
Jet lag (rough)
~3.5d
Westward — easier
CO₂ footprint per passenger
Economy class, single passenger. Source: DEFRA 2024 averages.
This flight emits roughly 3.6× the CO₂ of an equivalent train trip and 0.9× a car driven alone over the same distance.
Flights from Barcelona
Nearest destinations
- Barcelona → Madrid
- Barcelona → Milan
- Barcelona → Rome
- Barcelona → Zurich
- Barcelona → Paris
- Barcelona → Lisbon
- Barcelona → Brussels
- Barcelona → Frankfurt
- Barcelona → Munich
- Barcelona → London
Long-haul from Barcelona
- Barcelona → Auckland
- Barcelona → Sydney
- Barcelona → Melbourne
- Barcelona → Bali (Denpasar)
- Barcelona → Manila
- Barcelona → Santiago
- Barcelona → Singapore
- Barcelona → Kuala Lumpur
- Barcelona → Buenos Aires
- Barcelona → Tokyo
More flights to South America
Flights to Rio de Janeiro
Nearest origins
- São Paulo → Rio de Janeiro
- Buenos Aires → Rio de Janeiro
- Santiago → Rio de Janeiro
- Cape Town → Rio de Janeiro
- Miami → Rio de Janeiro
- Cancun → Rio de Janeiro
- Johannesburg → Rio de Janeiro
- Casablanca → Rio de Janeiro
- Atlanta → Rio de Janeiro
- Mexico City → Rio de Janeiro
Long-haul to Rio de Janeiro
- Osaka → Rio de Janeiro
- Tokyo → Rio de Janeiro
- Taipei → Rio de Janeiro
- Shanghai → Rio de Janeiro
- Manila → Rio de Janeiro
- Seoul → Rio de Janeiro
- Hong Kong → Rio de Janeiro
- Beijing → Rio de Janeiro
- Bangkok → Rio de Janeiro
- Bali (Denpasar) → Rio de Janeiro