Distance from Barcelona to Chicago
Flying the shortest possible route, Chicago lies 7,084 km (4,402 miles, 3,825 nautical miles) from Barcelona — the great-circle distance between their coordinates.
The numbers
- Great-circle distance
- 7,084 km · 4,402 mi · 3,825 nmi
- Initial bearing Barcelona → Chicago
- 304° (NW)
- Initial bearing Chicago → Barcelona
- 57° (ENE)
- Nonstop flight (rough estimate)
- ≈ 9 h 00 min
- Time zones
- Barcelona UTC+01:00 · Chicago UTC-06:00 (-7 h)
- Sunrise gap today
- 361 min — the sun rises earlier in Barcelona
Flight time is a cruise-speed approximation (no routing/wind); driving distance depends on roads and is typically 20–40% longer than great-circle.
The two cities
- Barcelona
- 41.3888, 2.1590
- Sunrise / sunset today
- 06:32 UTC / 16:40 UTC
- Chicago
- 41.8500, -87.6500
- Sunrise / sunset today
- 12:32 UTC / 22:38 UTC
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Distances here are straight-line (great-circle). Road routes typically run 1.2–1.4× longer — here's why, with the visual.