What you fly over between Buenos Aires (Ezeiza) and Barcelona

The EZE–BCN flight covers 10,481 km, crosses 14 airspace regions and 10 time zones, and spends 46% of the way over water. See what is below you, leg by leg.

The planet seen from outside, with the EZE–BCN route drawn as a line between both airports
The route over the planet. On a flat map the short path looks curved; here it looks like what it is: a straight line on a sphere.

Summary

Estimated duration
12 h 33 min
Great-circle distance
10,481 km
In miles
6,513 mi · 5,659 NM
Initial bearing
41°
Over water
46% · 4,786 km
Longest stretch of water
3,808 km · Atlantic Ocean
Time difference
+5 h

Airspace regions crossed (14)

Each one is a separate control region: when the aircraft crosses the boundary, the centre talking to the pilot changes. Boundaries are approximate — they come from the VATSIM data set, not from the official ICAO chart.

  1. Baires TMA - Ezeiza
  2. Montevideo
  3. Curitiba (Completo) - Curitiba
  4. Brasilia (Completo) - Brasilia
  5. Recife (Completo) - Recife
  6. Atlantico (Completo) - Atlantico
  7. Dakar Oceanic
  8. Sal Oceanic
  9. Dakar
  10. Canarias Oceanic
  11. Casablanca
  12. Sevilla
  13. Valencia (FL245-)
  14. Barcelona

Time zones crossed (10)

  1. America/Argentina/Buenos_Aires
  2. America/Montevideo
  3. America/Sao_Paulo
  4. America/Bahia
  5. America/Maceio
  6. America/Recife
  7. America/Fortaleza
  8. Africa/El_Aaiun
  9. Africa/Casablanca
  10. Europe/Madrid

Where it passes

Named oceans, seas, mountain ranges, deserts and islands under the track, in order.

  1. Pampas
  2. Río de la Plata
  3. Serra Geral
  4. Brazilian Highlands
  5. Serra do Mar
  6. Brazilian Highlands
  7. Serra da Mantiquiera
  8. Brazilian Highlands
  9. Borborema Plateau
  10. Caatinga
  11. Cape Verde
  12. Sahara
  13. Atlas Mountains
  14. Rif
  15. Alboran Sea
  16. Iberian Peninsula
  17. Sierra Nevada
  18. Iberian Peninsula
  19. Balearic Sea
  20. Iberian Peninsula

Peaks near the route

Within 120 km of the track. Highest first.

  • Jbel Toubkal — 4,165 m
  • Mulhacén — 3,479 m
  • Jbel Tidirhine — 2,456 m
  • Serra do Barbado — 2,033 m
  • Pico Paraná — 1,877 m
  • Pico do Jabre — 1,197 m

And all of this, on board

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How this was calculated

The route is the great circle between both airports, split into 300 points. At each point a point-in-polygon test runs against 1,102 airspace regions, 418 time zones and 1,338 physical geography polygons. A real aircraft does not fly the exact great circle: it follows airways, avoids storms and rides the wind. This is the reference, not the flight plan.