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MAD Madrid ⇄ LIS Lisbon

Adolfo Suárez Madrid–Barajas Airport (Spain) and Lisbon Humberto Delgado Airport (Portugal): great-circle distance, estimated scheduled flight time each way, time difference and jet lag.

Distance513 km319 mi277 nautical miles
MAD → LIS1 h 40 minestimated block time
LIS → MAD1 h 35 minestimated block time
Clock change−1 hLisbon vs Madrid, today
Great-circle route from Madrid (MAD) to Lisbon (LIS)MADMadridLISLisbon
The shortest path over the Earth’s surface (great circle), drawn on a Natural Earth projection. Real flight paths bend around weather, winds and closed airspace.

Flight time each way

MAD → LIS

1 h 40 min

Estimated gate-to-gate scheduled time. Initial heading 250° (WSW).

Leave Madrid Sat 7 Nov, 10:00 local → arrive Lisbon Sat 7 Nov, 10:40 local.

LIS → MAD

1 h 35 min

Estimated gate-to-gate scheduled time. Initial heading 66° (ENE).

Leave Lisbon Sat 7 Nov, 10:00 local → arrive Madrid Sat 7 Nov, 12:35 local.

The two directions differ by 7 minutes in our estimate: this route is short, so the wind has little effect on the total. How we estimate it.

Distance

Great-circle distance513 km · 319 mi · 277 nmi
Initial heading250° (WSW) from MAD; 66° (ENE) from LIS
Farthest from the equator40.5°N
Crossesneither the equator nor the 180th meridian
Share of the longest possible trip3% of the 20,015 km to the far side of the Earth

Time zones and jet lag

MADEurope/Madrid — UTC+1 now; UTC+1 standard time, UTC+2 during daylight saving time
LISEurope/Lisbon — UTC+0 now; UTC+0 standard time, UTC+1 during daylight saving time
DifferenceLisbon is 1 hour behind Madrid today.

Jet lag, flying MAD → LIS. Your body clock has to move 1 hour later, like a westward trip. A shift this small rarely causes much jet lag; most people feel normal within a day or so. Flying the other way, the shift is reversed.

General information, not medical advice.

The two airports

MAD Adolfo Suárez Madrid–Barajas AirportMadrid, Spain · longest runway 14,271 ft4,350 m LIS Lisbon Humberto Delgado AirportLisbon, Portugal · longest runway 12,500 ft3,810 m

More routes from MAD and LIS

MADBCN Madrid – Barcelona 483 km300 mi · 1 h 35 min LHRMAD London – Madrid 1,244 km773 mi · 2 h 30 min MADLPA Madrid – Gran Canaria 1,766 km1,097 mi · 3 h 10 min MADCUN Madrid – Cancún 7,960 km4,946 mi · 11 h MEXMAD Mexico City – Madrid 9,065 km5,633 mi · 10 h 30 min SCLMAD Santiago – Madrid 10,719 km6,661 mi · 12 h 50 min CDGLIS Paris – Lisbon 1,470 km913 mi · 2 h 50 min LHRLIS London – Lisbon 1,564 km972 mi · 2 h 55 min JFKLIS New York – Lisbon 5,404 km3,358 mi · 6 h 35 min EWRLIS Newark – Lisbon 5,434 km3,376 mi · 6 h 40 min GIGLIS Rio de Janeiro – Lisbon 7,715 km4,794 mi · 9 h 40 min GRULIS São Paulo – Lisbon 7,935 km4,930 mi · 9 h 55 min

Routes of a similar length

CPHOSL Copenhagen – Oslo 517 km321 mi · 1 h 40 min ISTAYT Istanbul – Antalya 518 km322 mi · 1 h 35 min YULYYZ Montreal – Toronto 507 km315 mi · 1 h 40 min LHREDI London – Edinburgh 534 km332 mi · 1 h 40 min

Need a different pair? The flight-time calculator works for any two of 3,245 airports. Not covered: which airlines fly this route, schedules, fares and live status — that data is proprietary and we don’t guess it.

Photos on airport pages are credited there. Estimates are rounded to 5 minutes; typical error about 13 minutes (validation).