✈ GRU → MAD
10H 44M FLIGHT. YOU WILL CRY DURING A ROMCOM. IT'S FINE.
Flight from São Paulo to Madrid
From Guarulhos (GRU), Brazil South America → Barajas (MAD), Spain Europe
↔ Flying the other way? Madrid → São Paulo
How long is the flight from São Paulo to Madrid?
A nonstop flight from São Paulo (GRU) to Madrid (MAD) takes about 10 hours 44 minutes, covering a great-circle distance of 5,207 miles (8,380 km). Actual scheduled time varies by airline, routing, and wind — expect ±15 to 30 minutes from this estimate.
Avg flight time
10h 44m
Nonstop, scheduled
Distance
5,207 mi
8,380 km · great-circle
Avg speed
781 km/h
Door-to-door including taxi
Time zones & jet lag
São Paulo timezone
UTC-3
America/Sao_Paulo
Madrid timezone
UTC+2
Europe/Madrid
Time difference
+5h
5 hours ahead
Jet lag (rough)
~5d
Eastward — worse
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 São Paulo
Nearest destinations
- São Paulo → Rio de Janeiro
- São Paulo → Buenos Aires
- São Paulo → Santiago
- São Paulo → Cape Town
- São Paulo → Miami
- São Paulo → Cancun
- São Paulo → Mexico City
- São Paulo → Johannesburg
- São Paulo → Atlanta
- São Paulo → Casablanca
Long-haul from São Paulo
- São Paulo → Osaka
- São Paulo → Taipei
- São Paulo → Shanghai
- São Paulo → Tokyo
- São Paulo → Manila
- São Paulo → Seoul
- São Paulo → Hong Kong
- São Paulo → Beijing
- São Paulo → Bangkok
- São Paulo → Singapore
More flights to Europe
Flights to Madrid
Nearest origins
- Barcelona → Madrid
- Lisbon → Madrid
- Casablanca → Madrid
- Paris → Madrid
- Milan → Madrid
- Zurich → Madrid
- London → Madrid
- Brussels → Madrid
- Rome → Madrid
- Frankfurt → Madrid
Long-haul to Madrid
- Auckland → Madrid
- Sydney → Madrid
- Melbourne → Madrid
- Bali (Denpasar) → Madrid
- Manila → Madrid
- Singapore → Madrid
- Kuala Lumpur → Madrid
- Tokyo → Madrid
- Taipei → Madrid
- Santiago → Madrid