✈ SEA → MAD
10H 54M FLIGHT. YOU WILL CRY DURING A ROMCOM. IT'S FINE.
Flight from Seattle to Madrid
From Sea-Tac (SEA), USA North America → Barajas (MAD), Spain Europe
↔ Flying the other way? Madrid → Seattle
How long is the flight from Seattle to Madrid?
A nonstop flight from Seattle (SEA) to Madrid (MAD) takes about 10 hours 54 minutes, covering a great-circle distance of 5,295 miles (8,521 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
8,521 km · great-circle
Avg speed
782 km/h
Door-to-door including taxi
Time zones & jet lag
Seattle timezone
UTC-7
America/Los_Angeles
Madrid timezone
UTC+2
Europe/Madrid
Time difference
+9h
9 hours ahead
Jet lag (rough)
~9d
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 Seattle
Nearest destinations
- Seattle → Vancouver
- Seattle → San Francisco
- Seattle → Las Vegas
- Seattle → Los Angeles
- Seattle → Dallas
- Seattle → Chicago
- Seattle → Toronto
- Seattle → Atlanta
- Seattle → Mexico City
- Seattle → New York
Long-haul from Seattle
- Seattle → Johannesburg
- Seattle → Cape Town
- Seattle → Nairobi
- Seattle → Melbourne
- Seattle → Bali (Denpasar)
- Seattle → Kuala Lumpur
- Seattle → Singapore
- Seattle → Sydney
- Seattle → Mumbai
- Seattle → Abu Dhabi
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