BCN to NCE: Distance and Flight Time

How far is it from Barcelona to Nice, Alpes-Maritimes?

The great-circle distance between Josep Tarradellas Barcelona-El Prat Airport (BCN) and Nice-Côte d'Azur Airport (NCE) is 496 km (308 mi, 268 nautical miles). That is the straight-line distance; a real flight is a little longer because of air-traffic routing.

How long is the flight from BCN to NCE?

A nonstop flight typically takes about 1h 5m. This is an estimate from the distance; actual block times depend on the aircraft, winds and the exact routing. NCE is roughly northeast of BCN.

How is the BCN to NCE route written in code?

The pair is written BCN-NCE in IATA codes and LEBL-LFMN in ICAO codes, the form used on a flight plan. Josep Tarradellas Barcelona-El Prat Airport is BCN (LEBL), Nice-Côte d'Azur Airport is NCE (LFMN).

Both ICAO codes start with L, the prefix ICAO assigns to southern Europe, so this is a route inside one ICAO region. How ICAO prefixes are laid out.

The two fields sit at almost the same height, within 0 ft (0 m) of each other.

Airlines flying BCN to NCE

2 airlines appear on this route in the open route dataset, 2 of them still listed as active. Each row gives the IATA code, the ICAO code and the radio callsign, which is what an air traffic controller hears:

A further 1 carrier sell this pair as a codeshare without operating it: IB.

Route and carrier data comes from the OpenFlights open dataset, regenerated here on 3 July 2026. It is a historical snapshot of scheduled connections, not a live schedule, and it includes codeshare listings, so some carriers shown may no longer operate the route or exist. How we build this · Data and sources.

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