Shuttle bus
You park the car yourself and a transfer bus runs you to the terminal. Usually the cheapest per day, and the one that needs the most slack in your timings — budget for the wait as well as the ride, in both directions.
Airport parking at Madrid Barajas
MADMadrid, Spain
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Madrid
T4 and its satellite, T4S, form a separate complex at Madrid-Barajas, with its own approach road, car parks and stations, while T1, T2 and T3 stand together. The airport lies inside Madrid’s city limits; your airline decides which terminal you need, so check first.
Terminals 1 2 3 4 4S
Before you fly
Airport guide: Madrid Barajas
Driving to the airport
The M-14 runs from the M-40 to T1, T2 and T3, and the M-11, which leaves the M-30 ring at the Manoteras junction, also leads there; from that terminal area the M-13 carries on to T4.
T4 also has its own approach, the M-12, which links the M-40 with the A-1, partly in a tunnel under Juan Carlos I park. It is run by the state company SEITT and charges tolls on some sections, the tunnel among them.
Terminals
T1, T2 and T3 are adjacent, and their shared metro station is inside T2. T4 stands apart, and passengers for its satellite, T4S, check in and pass security at T4, then ride an automated people mover from level -2.
A free bus links T1, T2 and T4, calling at T3 only on the return run.
Drop-off and pick-up
For dropping off or collecting passengers, Aena points drivers to its express car parks: one faces T1 with direct access to arrivals, and T2 has one with direct access to departures and check-in and another opposite arrivals.
A brief stop at the T2 departures express car park is free; go beyond it and the entire stay is charged, and a maximum stay applies. At T4, Aena lists P4 for pick-ups and drop-offs.
The airport’s own car parks
Each terminal group has a general car park: P1 at T1, P2 in a covered building next to T2 and T3, and P4, an indoor car park with direct access to T4, whose modules C and D hold a premium section.
Free shuttle buses link the long-stay car parks for T1–T3 and for T4 with the terminals, and a low-cost car park for T1–T3 takes advance bookings only. VIP car parks at T1, T2 and T4 add a driver who takes and returns your car at the terminal door.
Without a car
Metro line 8 runs from Nuevos Ministerios to Aeropuerto T1-T2-T3 and Aeropuerto T4; an ordinary zone A Metro ticket needs an airport supplement to enter or leave either station. Renfe Cercanías line C1, via Atocha and Chamartín, ends at T4.
EMT’s line 203 Airport Express links Atocha station and Cibeles with T1, T2 and T4, and line 200 runs from Avenida de América to T1, T2, T3 and T4.
Good to know
P1, P2, P4, the T4 premium section and the T1 and T2 express car parks have marked lanes for Via-T toll tags.
Long-distance coaches to cities across Spain and abroad leave from a bus terminal beside module F of P4 at T4.
Official airport website aena.es
What Parkena guarantees
- Price locked at booking
- The operator is named before you pay
- A person read the listing before it appeared
What Parkena does not claim
- Not independently verified
- The handover is not recorded by Parkena
How Parkena lists
Choosing a car park at Madrid Barajas
Parkena is not a directory of every space near Madrid. It shows car parks an operator has put on sale and a Parkena reviewer has approved — and it prices them only for the dates you give it.
Listing
Approved operators only
A car park reaches this site once its operator has been approved by a Parkena reviewer, is still active, and has finished setting the lot up. All three are re-checked in the database every time results are asked for, so a listing that stops meeting any of them stops appearing.
Pricing
A price for your stay, never a headline rate
Your price depends on your exact dates, so enter your drop-off and pick-up and you will see the total for that stay — worked out from the operator’s own rate plan, in the currency that operator settles in. Before you name a stay there is no price to show, and that is why this page carries no “from” figure anywhere on it.
Charging
The amount is recomputed before it is charged
The total you agreed to is the total you are charged. Your price is never carried in the link: the booking page asks for it again, and the database works it out once more inside the same transaction that writes your reservation, then checks it against the figure you were shown. Match, and you are booked; differ by anything at all, and the booking is refused rather than quietly re-priced — so you are never charged a figure you were not shown.
Not claimed
What Parkena does not yet know about MAD
You will not find a transfer time or a distance to Departures for any car park at Madrid Barajas here: none has been mapped to a terminal yet, and Parkena will not print a number nobody has measured. What you can rely on is where they are — every listing appears because it is in or near Madrid, and the results page says so on itself.
What is listed here
See what is available at Madrid Barajas
Give Parkena your drop-off and pick-up and it asks every approved operator in or near the city what that stay costs, right now. Nothing on this page is a quote; that page is where a quote comes from.
Check prices for your dates
Takes you to the search. Your drop-off and pick-up are what produce a price.
MAD
Illustration, not a map. Parkena lists car parks in and around Madrid, and names each one and its operator on the results page.
Off-airport parking
Getting from the car park to the terminal
Off-airport parking comes in three shapes and they change the whole shape of your morning. Every listing at Madrid Barajas states the handover — whether the car park takes your keys or you keep them — and the operator’s own arrival instructions — there before you book, and on your booking afterwards — tell you how you reach Departures.
Walk to terminal
The car park is close enough to walk in from. No bus, no waiting, and no transfer to get wrong on the way back at midnight. Typically the dearest of the three, and worth it with light luggage or a tight connection.
Attended handover
You hand the keys over on arrival and someone else parks the car. Every listing states whether a car park takes your keys or leaves them with you — that is the one fact about the handover the platform actually records.
Good to know
Questions, answered
How much does parking at Madrid Barajas cost?
Prices depend on your dates. Enter your drop-off and pick-up in the search at the top of this page and every approved operator near Madrid quotes that exact stay from its own rate plan, in the currency it settles in. That is also why there is no “from” figure for Madrid Barajas on this site: a car park has no price until somebody names a stay, and no operator has agreed to one.
How are the days counted?
A started day is a charged day. A stay of exactly 24 hours is one day; 24 hours and one minute is two. That is why we ask for times, not just dates.
How do I get from the car park to the terminals at Madrid Barajas?
Each listing at Madrid Barajas states how the car changes hands — you park it yourself, or an attendant takes it — and the operator's own arrival instructions carry the rest. Parkena does not publish a transfer time or a distance for any car park, because the operator platform records neither; every listing shows what the operator declared and nothing else.
Can I charge an electric car, or hand the keys over, at Madrid Barajas?
Only if the operator says so. A listing at Madrid Barajas shows the facilities and the handover its operator has confirmed, and the search page lets you filter on them. An empty facilities list means unknown, not hidden — Parkena never fills one in.
Can I cancel or change a parking booking at Madrid Barajas?
Cancellation works the same for every listing: the booking page shows the free-cancellation window and the processing fee in full before you confirm, and the terms recorded on your booking stay as recorded even if they change later. To cancel, look the booking up at /booking with your reference and the email you booked with — that works any time before check-in. Cancelling inside the free window refunds the total minus the processing fee; cancelling after it keeps the total instead, exactly as not arriving at all would. To change a booking, Parkena cannot help — new dates or a different car park is a fresh booking. The one exception is the vehicle registration, which you can correct at /booking until your stay begins.
How far ahead do I need to book at Madrid Barajas?
That is each operator's own rule. Some car parks at Madrid Barajas need notice before a stay starts and some set a minimum or maximum length; Parkena applies those rules when it quotes, so a stay the operator cannot accept is shown as not bookable, with the reason, rather than quoted and refused later.