Every ADS-B-tracked flight visualized in this print, captured over 7 days.

BCN logged 5,026 flights across seven days in early February 2026, averaging 718 movements per day and nearly 30 per hour around the clock. Departures outnumbered arrivals 2,733 to 2,293, and 1,188 distinct aircraft appeared in the dataset. The busiest single day was February 6 with 859 total movements, while the quietest was February 3 at 610. Within the daily cycle, the noon hour carried the heaviest load: 356 flights, split 220 departures to 136 arrivals. Activity dropped sharply after midnight, bottoming out at 9 movements in the 03:00 CET hour before climbing again through the morning. The Madrid route led all pairings with 210 combined movements, followed by Palma de Mallorca at 176. London Heathrow and Paris Charles de Gaulle each accounted for over 130 movements, and Rome Fiumicino, Milan Malpensa, Lisbon, Paris Orly, Amsterdam Schiphol, and London Gatwick all cleared 100. North was the dominant approach and departure bearing, with northeast and southwest also appearing consistently across both directions. The dataset recorded nearly 4 million individual ADS-B position points. Altitude data shows the heaviest concentration of ADS-B fixes below 1,000 feet, reflecting the volume of low-altitude approach and departure segments. Cruise traffic clustered between 35,000 and 38,000 feet, with the single highest-recorded track reaching 45,450 feet. The longest flight in the capture ran 2,170.6 nautical miles to Helsinki Vantaa over 212 minutes. Average groundspeed across all tracks was 289 knots, and aggregate distance flown totaled just over 3.14 million nautical miles. Aircraft registered to Croatia (HR), Italy, the United Kingdom, and Germany were the most frequently represented nationalities after the unclassified group.