One passenger pays between £42.09 and £97.17, every fee included, depending on the operator and the way you travel. Services cover 1,267 km and are run by 6 operators across 2 modes.
What one seat costs
The spread between the cheapest and dearest typical fare on this corridor, across 6 operators and 2 ways of making the journey. The operator sets the price on the day.
Typical fares · Priced for 26 October 2026
£42.09 to £97.17
- 169%Moves across the booking window
Departures on 28 September 2026
Real departures, filed by the operators themselves. Times only, no fares.
10:4021:3210h 52m
EST 9133Eurostar3 changes
Amsterdam-Centraal → Barcelone-Sants
Reservation required
Book with Eurostar10:4421:3210h 48m
ICD 1830NS4 changes
Amsterdam Zuid → Barcelone-Sants
Bikes carried
NS timetable
BlaBlaCar runs this service and does not sell it here. Trainline takes the payment.
Buying this journey
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Fares by date
What this journey usually costs, by departure date. It shows which days run dearer.
Typical fares
- about £92.04Tue6
- about £80.73Wed7
- about £99.10Thu8
- about £74.60Fri9
- about £78.85Sat10
- about £72.25Sun11
- about £66.60Mon12
- about £55.28Tue13
- about £55.28Wed14
- about £64.71Thu15
- about £60.00Fri16
- about £61.41Sat17
- about £58.59Sun18
- about £52.46Mon19
- about £43.51Tue20
- about £43.98Wed21
- about £54.34Thu22
- about £51.98Fri23
- about £52.93Sat24
- about £49.16Sun25
- about £42.09Mon26
Based on what this route has cost recently. The live fare is confirmed when you book.
The flight gets you into Barcelona. These two partners take it from there, and the bed is theirs to book.

A room in Barcelona for the night the flight gets in
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When to book Amsterdam to Barcelona
The same search run across the whole booking window, so the shape of the curve is visible rather than described.
- £41.1590 days
- £51.0560 days
- £47.2745 days
- £36.9030 days
- £42.0921 days
- £52.4614 days
- £66.607 days
- £99.103 days
- £92.041 days
- Cheapest lead time
- Fares bottom out around 30 days ahead, at £36.90.
- How much it moves
- The gap between the cheapest and dearest lead time is 169 percent. The dearest point is £99.10, 3 days out.
- What that means
- Today sits inside the cheap window, which closes about 30 days before departure. Waiting from here has usually cost money on this corridor rather than saved it.
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This corridor, specifically
Facts that apply to Amsterdam to Barcelona and to no other route on the site.
Clocks
10:40 → 15:51
Both ends keep the same time, so the arrival is the departure plus the journey.
The shape of it
1,267 km
1,239 km as the crow flies, 2% further by the route services take. The bearing runs south.
Who lives at each end
741,636 → 1,686,208
Population at the departure city and at the arrival city, which is usually what decides how often anything runs.
The route
What the journey looks like
Direct or connecting, how far the route really runs, and what happens when a connection is missed.
- How far it really runs
- The route covers 1,267 km against 1,239 km in a straight line, a detour of 2 percent. Track and road geometry account for the difference.
Barcelona is large, and the road in from BCN can take longer than the last hour of the flight. Cars are not our business.

A car waiting when you land in Barcelona
Settled in advance, so the ride into Barcelona costs what it said it would rather than what the rank says.
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Who runs this route
The flight gets in hours before any room is ready. Holding a bag is not what we sell.

Left luggage near Barcelona Sants
Most of the points near Barcelona Sants open before the first train and shut after the last one.
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Questions about Amsterdam to Barcelona
The questions people actually ask about this journey, 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 Amsterdam to Barcelona?
Amsterdam to Barcelona covers 1,267 km. Each operator's own departure and arrival times for the date you pick are in the search at the top of this page, beside the total price.
How much does it cost to travel from Amsterdam to Barcelona?
The cheapest fare from Amsterdam to Barcelona is £42.09, as of 5 October 2026. A typical fare across the next three weeks is £131.03. 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 Amsterdam to Barcelona?
The cheapest way from Amsterdam to Barcelona is by coach, at £42.09 for one passenger on 26 October 2026. The comparison table on this page shows what each mode costs side by side.
When should I book Amsterdam to Barcelona?
Fares from Amsterdam to Barcelona bottom out around 30 days before departure, at £36.90. Across the whole booking window the gap between the cheapest and the dearest lead time is 169 percent, measured on 5 October 2026. Booking inside the last week has consistently cost more on this corridor.
Which day of the week is cheapest for Amsterdam to Barcelona?
Monday is the cheapest day to depart from Amsterdam to Barcelona, at £52.46. That is the median of 21 priced departure days across the next three weeks, as of 5 October 2026. Shifting a departure by one day is usually worth more than shifting the booking by one week.
Which month is cheapest for Amsterdam to Barcelona?
February is the cheapest of the next 6 months to travel from Amsterdam to Barcelona, at £35.02 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 services from Amsterdam to Barcelona?
6 operators sell services from Amsterdam to Barcelona across 2 modes: BlaBlaCar, easyJet, easyJet Europe, KLM Royal Dutch Airlines, Transavia Holland, 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 Amsterdam to Barcelona?
Every service we sell from Amsterdam to Barcelona is direct. No connection is needed, so there is no missed connection risk to plan around on this corridor.
How much CO2 does the journey from Amsterdam to Barcelona produce?
Travelling from Amsterdam to Barcelona by coach produces about 42.1 kg of CO2 per passenger, the lowest of any mode on this corridor. The same journey by Flight produces about 266.7 kg, roughly 6 times as much for one passenger.
Which station or terminal do services from Amsterdam to Barcelona use?
Services from Amsterdam to Barcelona by flight leave from Amsterdam Airport Schiphol AMS and arrive at Josep Tarradellas Barcelona-El Prat Airport 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 Amsterdam to Barcelona?
1 of the 6 operators we sell from Amsterdam to Barcelona allow a change or a refund. A change on a changeable fare costs £4.28. The operator table on this page names which is which, and the condition is shown again before you pay.
Where these numbers come from
Places, coordinates, operators, which operator serves which pair, and every distance on this page are real and come from open data. Where a corridor has a filed timetable the departure times are real too, and ferry fares are the prices the operators publish themselves.
Observed service A carrier record names this operator on this pair, carried through unchanged.
Prices come from the supplier wherever we hold a live quote. Elsewhere we show an indicative price built from the real distance, the real operator and a fare curve over lead time, day of the week and season. Those are labelled Estimated fare and cannot be booked.
Defined in full at Door to door, Fares, The booking window, Carbon, Distances
Being on the water gives Barcelona a set of days out that do not start at a station.

Day trips out of Barcelona and across Spain
Day trips that leave Barcelona in the morning and cover a good part of Spain by evening.
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The two ends, compared
Amsterdam reaches 223 places in 63 countries on services we hold, over distances from 22 to 12,142 km. Barcelona reaches 207 places in 53 countries, from 48 to 11,182 km.
Other ways to make this journey
Leaving Amsterdam
- 223Places you can leave for
- 63Countries
- 99Operators
Arriving in Barcelona
Leaving Barcelona
- 207Places you can leave for
- 53Countries
- 84Operators
