Flight Report

ADS-B data captured from Adolfo Suárez Madrid–Barajas Airport (MAD/LEMD) on February 5, 2026, recorded 1,073 total flights across 24 hours, comprising 518 arrivals, 537 departures, and 18 touch-and-goes. Traffic ran continuously from 00:00 through 23:59 CET. The peak hour was 10:00, with 74 movements, and the average across all hours was 44.7 flights per hour. A second concentration appears in the evening, with hours 18, 19, and 22 each logging 69, 70, and 71 movements respectively. The quietest window fell between 02:00 and 03:00, with just 3 total flights at 02:00. A total of 416 unique aircraft were tracked, producing 801,901 individual ADS-B position points. The busiest route pair was Madrid to Barcelona (BCN), with 33 combined movements. Rome Fiumicino (FCO) and Paris Orly (ORY) each registered 28 total movements, followed by London Heathrow (LHR) at 26 and both Palma de Mallorca (PMI) and Lisbon (LIS) at 25. Approach directions were dominated by NNE (93 counts) and ENE (84 counts), with departure traffic similarly concentrated toward NNE (91) and ENE (81). The fleet registered by country of registration shows the largest identified groups from Croatia (27 aircraft), Italy (19), the United States (17), and Germany (17), though 230 aircraft carried an unresolved country code. Cruise altitudes clustered heavily in the 34,000 to 38,000 foot range, with the 34,000 to 35,000 foot band producing the highest position count at 38,698 ADS-B points. The average observed altitude across all tracked points was 19,067 feet, and the highest recorded altitude was 45,425 feet on a departure to Beirut (BEY). The longest flight by distance was an arrival covering 15,505 nautical miles, operated by a Chinese-registered aircraft (B-7879). Average leg distance across all flights was 640.6 nautical miles, with an average leg duration of 110.3 minutes. Total cumulative distance flown by all tracked flights was 687,337 nautical miles.