10 agosto 2026 · 6 min read
The short answer
For a typical journey from El Prat into central Barcelona — Eixample, the Gothic Quarter, El Born — expect somewhere in the region of €30 to €40 on the meter during the day, and more at night or at weekends when the higher tariff applies.
That figure is not a quote from us. It is what the official meter produces for a journey of roughly 13 to 16 kilometres once the fixed airport supplement is added. Every licensed taxi in Barcelona runs the same meter at the same rates.
How the meter builds the fare
Three things combine: a fixed start fare charged the moment the meter runs, a per-kilometre rate, and any applicable supplements.
The per-kilometre rate depends on when you travel. The daytime rate applies Monday to Friday between 08:00 and 20:00. Outside that — evenings, nights, all of Saturday and Sunday, and public holidays — the higher rate applies. The difference is around 20 to 25 per cent, so an identical journey genuinely costs more at 22:00 than at 14:00.
On top of that sits the El Prat airport supplement, a fixed amount added to any journey starting or ending at the airport. Sants station, the Fira Gran Via exhibition centre and the Moll Adossat cruise terminal carry their own smaller supplements, and there is a cap on the total supplements chargeable on a single service.
The airport minimum fare
Journeys that start at El Prat have a minimum fare. If the meter would otherwise produce less than that figure, the minimum is what you pay.
In practice this only affects very short hops — to El Prat town, or an airport hotel. Any journey into Barcelona proper comfortably exceeds it, so the minimum never comes into play.
What about the cruise port?
The run between El Prat and the Moll Adossat cruise terminal is different. It has an official fixed closed price rather than running on the meter, which removes the traffic risk on a journey people usually make against a boarding deadline.
If you enter the cruise terminal as your destination when getting a price, the estimate switches to that fixed figure automatically.
Is booking ahead more expensive?
The metered fare is identical whether you book ahead or join the rank — it has to be, because the rate is regulated.
What differs is our booking fee, a separate service charge for reserving the car, assigning a driver and supporting the trip. You see it as its own line before you pay, and it never appears on the taxi meter.
You can also choose to prepay the entire journey at a fixed price. That price sits slightly above the expected meter reading, because fixing it in advance means we absorb the traffic risk rather than you. In exchange nothing at all is owed in the taxi.