Compare trains, buses, flights and ferries from Dakar to Barcelona. From €301.04, fastest 8h 8m, with the total price and every fee shown up front.
Traveling from Dakar to Barcelona costs €301.04 at the cheapest and takes 8h 8m door to door at the fastest, across 1 mode and 1 operator. The route covers 3,624 km. Cheapest is by Flight, fastest is by Flight.
Checked September 11, 2026Priced for September 29, 2026One passenger, all fees included
Journey times below are door to door, so they include getting to the terminal and away from it at the other end. Fares are the cheapest we currently sell on September 29, 2026.
Door to door means the whole journey, including reaching the terminal and leaving it at the far end. Fares are the cheapest sold on each mode.
Mode
Door to door
Moving
At the ends
From
CO2
Per day
Flight
8h 39m
5h 29m
3h 10m
€355.91
536.4 kg
5
8h 39mFastest, by Flight
€355.91Cheapest, by Flight
536.4 kgLowest CO2, by Flight
3,624 kmDistance traveled
Real services
The cheapest and the fastest on September 29, 2026
Two journeys we can sell today, with the service number each operator files them under.
Cheapest€301.04
Royal Air Maroc RA267707:303h 34m11:04Dakar DSSCasablanca CMN
Air Arabia Maroc AA314912:412h 1m14:42Casablanca CMNBarcelona GRO
Changes at Casablanca, with 97 minutes between services and a walk of about 5 minutes.
Door to door 10h 22mCO2 897.9 kgChanges 1Fixed, no changes
Intermodalidad de Levante IL618114:173h 48m18:05Madrid Puerta de AtochaBarcelona Sants
Changes at Madrid, with 101 minutes between services and a walk of about 14 minutes.
Door to door 12h 32mCO2 497.6 kgChanges 1Fixed, no changes
Today's real departures
Live from the operators' own published timetables, through the open transit feeds they publish. Times and services are real. Fares are modeled until our booking connectors are live.
No live timetable for this trip yet.
Live from the operators' own published timetables, through the open transit feeds they publish. Times and services are real. Fares are modeled until our booking connectors are live.
Prices over the next three weeks
Live from our own engine, refreshed on every request. The cheapest days for each way of traveling are marked.
Cheapest fare by mode and day for Dakar to Barcelona
Cheapest fare by mode and day for Dakar to Barcelona
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Booking window
When to book Dakar to Barcelona
The same search run across the whole booking window, so the shape of the curve is visible rather than described.
€410.7890 days
€246.7660 days
€293.3745 days
€292.7830 days
€378.9221 days
€542.9414 days
€602.537 days
€564.183 days
€788.381 days
Cheapest lead time
Fares bottom out around 60 days ahead, at €246.76.
How much it moves
The gap between the cheapest and most expensive lead time is 219 percent. The most expensive point is €788.38, 1 days out.
What that means
Today sits inside the cheap window, which closes about 60 days before departure. Waiting from here has usually cost money on this corridor rather than saved it.
Book now Fares on this route are lowest around 60 days ahead. You are inside that window.
Day of the week
Which departure day costs least
Median cheapest fare for each weekday, taken across the next three weeks of real prices.
€455.62Sun
€355.91Mon
€356.50Tue
€381.28Wed
€488.07Thu
€542.94Fri
€446.18Sat
Across the year
How the fare moves month by month
The same journey priced on the fifteenth of each of the next six months.
€484.53Sep
€356.50Oct
€327.00Nov
€316.97Dec
€279.21Jan
€232.60Feb
The route
The journey
What the journey actually looks like
Direct or connecting, how far the route really runs, and what happens when a connection is missed.
Direct or connecting
20% of the services we sell on this corridor run through without a change. The remaining 80% involve one connection.
How far it really runs
The route covers 3,624 km against 3,518 km in a straight line, a detour of 3 percent. Track and road geometry account for the difference.
Where the change is
Connections are made at Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Algiers, Casablanca, Madrid. The gap between arriving and leaving is 46 minutes, of which about 5 is walking.
If the connection is missed
The tightest connection we sell here has a 20 percent chance of not being made on the timetable alone. Part of this journey is a self transfer between separate tickets, so leave more time than the minimum and expect to check in again.
First and last departure
The first service of the day leaves Dakar at 06:46 and the last at 07:30, across 5 departures. The return direction keeps its own timetable, so the times back are not these times reversed.
Terminals
Where you leave from and where you arrive
The stations, airports and ports each mode on this corridor actually uses.
Dakar
Rail
Dakar station
Hann station
Colobane station
Bus
Terminus Dakar Dem Dikk Liberté 5
Gare Routière Petersen
Air
DSS
DKR
Ferry
Dakar
Casamance;Dakar
Barcelona
Rail
Barcelona Sants
Barcelona-Sagrera
Barcelona-El Port station
Bus
Barcelona Nord
Estació d'Autobusos Barcelona Nord
Air
BCN
GRO
REU
Ferry
Barcelona Moll de Barcelona
Barcelona
BCN is not in Barcelona, and the drive in from it is the part of the trip nobody plans. We sell the flight and stop at the terminal door.
Getting from BCN into Barcelona?
A price agreed before you fly, a driver at arrivals, and a car big enough for the bags.
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Questions about Dakar to Barcelona
The questions people actually ask about this trip, answered from the same prices and times the page above is built on rather than written once and left to go stale.
How long does it take to get from Dakar to Barcelona?
The fastest journey from Dakar to Barcelona takes 8h 8m door to door, of which 5h 29m is spent moving, on the Flight. Most services take around 8h 26m, because that average includes slower stopping services and journeys with a connection. Times include reaching the terminal and leaving it at the far end.
How much does it cost to travel from Dakar to Barcelona?
The cheapest fare from Dakar to Barcelona is €301.04, checked on September 29, 2026. A typical fare across the next three weeks is €488.07. Both figures are the total for one passenger, including taxes, supplier fees and our service fee, so nothing is added at checkout.
What is the cheapest way to get from Dakar to Barcelona?
The cheapest way from Dakar to Barcelona is by Flight, at €355.91 for one passenger on September 29, 2026. That journey takes 8h 39m door to door. Cheaper is rarely faster on this corridor, and the comparison table on this page shows what each mode costs against what it saves.
When should I book Dakar to Barcelona?
Fares from Dakar to Barcelona bottom out around 60 days before departure, at €246.76. Across the whole booking window the gap between the cheapest and the most expensive lead time is 219 percent, measured on September 29, 2026. Booking inside the last week has consistently cost more on this corridor.
Which day of the week is cheapest for Dakar to Barcelona?
Monday is the cheapest day to depart from Dakar to Barcelona, at €355.91. That is the median of 21 priced departure days across the next three weeks, checked on September 29, 2026. Shifting a departure by one day is usually worth more than shifting the booking by one week.
Which month is cheapest for Dakar to Barcelona?
February is the cheapest of the next 6 months to travel from Dakar to Barcelona, at €232.60 for one passenger. Each month is priced on its fifteenth, so the comparison is like for like rather than a mix of weekends and midweek departures.
Who runs service from Dakar to Barcelona?
1 operators sell services from Dakar to Barcelona across 1 modes: Vueling Airlines. Journey times, fares and fare conditions differ between them, and the operator table on this page compares all of them on speed, flexibility and what is provided on board.
Is there a direct service from Dakar to Barcelona?
20 percent of the services we sell from Dakar to Barcelona are direct. The rest connect at Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Algiers, Casablanca, Madrid, with about 46 minutes between the two services. Both legs are sold on one booking, so a missed connection is rebooked at no charge.
Which station or terminal do services from Dakar to Barcelona use?
Services from Dakar to Barcelona by Flight leave from Dakar DKR and arrive at Barcelona BCN. Allow about 3h 10m in total for reaching the departure terminal and leaving the arrival one, which is already included in every door to door time on this page.
Can I change or refund a ticket from Dakar to Barcelona?
0 of the 1 operators we sell from Dakar to Barcelona allow a change or a refund. A change on a changeable fare costs €5.00. The operator table on this page names which is which, and the condition is shown again before you pay.
Where these numbers come from
Observed service A carrier record shows this named operator serving this named pair, and we carry that through unchanged.
Schedules, seat counts and fares are generated by our own model until the supplier contracts are signed. Places, coordinates, operators, which operator serves which pair, and every distance are real. We would rather say that on every page than let a modeled number pass for a filed one.
Every figure above was computed for Dakar to Barcelona on September 11, 2026: 3624 km of route against 3518 km in a straight line, 5 services a day, 1 operators, a cheapest fare of €301.04, and 8h 8m door to door on the fastest mode. The return direction is computed separately and its numbers are not these numbers.
Being on the water gives Barcelona a set of days out that do not start at a station. We do not sell those either.
Things to do in Barcelona
The tickets worth having in advance, because the line at the door is usually the whole morning.