Barcelona Airport to Barcelona city centre taxi

From £30.44 fixed for a pre-booked saloon to Barcelona city centre.

Barcelona El Prat sits south west of the city, between El Prat de Llobregat and the sea, and it is two airports wearing one name. Terminal T1 is the big newer building on one side of the airfield; T2A, T2B and T2C are the older row on the other. They are a free ride apart rather than a walk apart, and almost every difference between the options on this page comes back to which of the two you land at.

Fixed price: from £30.44
Journey: 21 minutes
Distance: 8.6 miles

Lowest live operator quote, checked 16 October 2026.

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Lowest live operator quote to Barcelona city centre, saloon, 16 October 2026.

What the fixed price includes

60 minutes free waiting after your flight lands; the rank meter charges from the moment you sit down
a fixed price confirmed when you book, with no meter and no surge
express pick-up at the airport's designated pick-up point
flight tracking, so a delayed arrival moves your pick-up time
free cancellation up to 24 hours before pick-up

How much is a taxi from Barcelona Airport to the city centre?

Our price is agreed when you book and does not move afterwards. A rank car is metered instead, and the meter Barcelona sets is unusually easy to read: one flag fall, one rate per kilometre by day and a higher one at night and at weekends, a fixed supplement for starting at the airport, and a floor below which a journey from the airport cannot be charged. That floor is the part worth knowing, because on a short hop into the nearer parts of the city it is the number that decides the fare rather than the distance.

Leave the metropolitan area and the rules change hands entirely. The fares stop being the city's and become the Generalitat's, on a different scale with its own supplements, which is why a run down the coast to Salou or up it to Lloret de Mar is priced on a wholly different basis from a run into the middle of Barcelona.

Where a booked car earns its money here is a T2 landing late at night, a large party with hold luggage, an address in Gràcia or up in the Carmel where the alternatives below stop short, or a cruise departure from the port. Travelling alone in daylight into the middle of Barcelona, the alternatives in the table below are cheaper. The meter is for the whole car, so for up to four people going into the centre by day a rank car usually comes to less than our price too, and we would rather say so on this page than let you work it out at the rank.

Travelling as

Option	Cost for 2	Journey time	Door to door?	Pre-bookable?
Airport Taxi Hub, pre-booked	Cost for 2: £30.44 one price per car, up to 3 passengersFrom £30.44, fixed, including 60 minutes free waiting after your flight lands	Journey time: 21 minutes	Door to door? Yes	Pre-bookable? Yes
Taxi from the airport rank	Cost for 2: Metered on tariff T-1 by day, 2,80 euros to start and 1,35 euros a kilometre, plus a 4,60 euro airport supplement; a journey starting at the airport cannot be charged below 21,00 euros	Journey time: no journey time is published	Door to door? Yes	Pre-bookable? No
Metro line L9 Sud	Cost for 2: £9.94 2 × Airport ticket€5.90 each, fare checked 16 September 20265,90 euros for the Airport ticket, which is sold only for the metro; the T-casual most visitors buy is not valid at the airport stations	Journey time: 32 minutes to the city centre	Door to door? No	Pre-bookable? No
Aerobús A1 and A2 express	Cost for 2: £13.08 2 × Aerobús single€7.75 each, fare checked 16 September 20267,75 euros a single and 13,30 euros a return, valid 90 days, children under four free	Journey time: no journey time is published	Door to door? No	Pre-bookable? Yes
R2 Nord train from Terminal T2	Cost for 2: An ordinary integrated fare, and every integrated pass is valid to and from the airport on the railway	Journey time: no journey time is published	Door to door? No	Pre-bookable? No

Local fares converted to pounds at the rate checked 16 October 2026, rounded down. Totals count every traveller at the fare shown; children often travel cheaper or free.

Where do I meet my driver at Barcelona?

Know your terminal before you fly. T1 and T2 are separate buildings on opposite sides of the airfield, and the two are linked only by the free 24-hour service Aena runs between them, every 5 minutes through the day and every 10 minutes in the small hours.
Contact your driver as soon as you land, their number is in your supplier details email. It arrives separately from your booking confirmation, so save it to your phone before you fly.
Express pick-up is included in the price you paid: the driver waits at the airport's designated pick-up point rather than inside the hall. Aena publishes one meeting point for pre-booked chauffeur-driven cars, in the T1 car park on Floor -1, and your driver will tell you on the phone whether that is where they are.
Do not join the rank queue by mistake. The public ranks are opposite the arrivals areas of T1 and of T2A, T2B and T2C, and the app cars are in the car parks, and your driver is at neither of those unless they tell you otherwise.
Your flight is tracked at no charge, and your booking carries 60 minutes free waiting after your flight lands, so a slow bag belt at T1 does not cost you the car.

Contact your driver as soon as you land, their number is in your supplier details email.

Arrivals-hall meet and greet with a name board is available as a paid extra at checkout.

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Last updated 16 September 2026, from the most recent verified fact on this page rather than the build date. Sources are listed with each fact.

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