Barcelona, Spain

Barcelona, Spain is a submarine cable landing point in Spain (coordinates 41.3856°, 2.1688°). It serves 3 submarine cable systems, making it a multi-cable landing site in Spain's international connectivity infrastructure.

Barcelona is a city on the northeastern coast of Spain. It is the capital and largest city of the autonomous community of Catalonia, as well as the second-most populous municipality of Spain. With a population of 1.7 million within city limits, its urban area extends to numerous neighbouring municipalities within the province of Barcelona and is home to around 5.7 million people, making it the fifth most populous urban area of the European Union after Paris, the Ruhr area, Madrid and Milan. It is one of the largest metropolises on the Mediterranean Sea, located on the coast between the mouths of the rivers Llobregat and Besòs, bounded to the west by the Serra de Collserola mountain range. Wikipedia

Connected submarine cables

Operators landing at Barcelona, Spain

Cables landing at Barcelona, Spain are operated by 10 distinct consortium partners and carriers, including AFRIX Telecom, Bayobab, China Mobile, Meta, Orange, SIPARTECH Sarl, Telecom Egypt, Vodafone, WIOCC, center3. Each cable is typically jointly owned by a consortium of tier-one carriers and hyperscale operators who share construction costs and capacity; the operator mix reflects both regional incumbents and global players with interest in the routes served by this landing point.

Connectivity profile

From Barcelona, Spain, international traffic can reach 41 countries through 3 cable systems. Destinations include Algeria, Angola, Bahrain, Comoros, Cyprus, Côte d'Ivoire, Dem. Rep., Djibouti and 33 more.

Monitoring status

GeoCables recorded 2 monitoring events on cables serving Barcelona, Spain in the past 90 days. Our monitoring network continuously samples latency from external probes to targets reachable via these cables.

About the cables

• Medusa Submarine Cable System (2026) — Medusa is a 8,760 km submarine cable system that lights up in 2026 and links the Mediterranean rim. It lands in a remarkable eighteen stations across thirteen countries — from Carcavelos and Sesimbra on the Portuguese Atlantic, along the Spanish Mediterranean coast at Barcelona, through Marseille in France and Mazara del Vallo in Sicily, to Algeria, Tunisia, Libya (Bizerte, Benghazi, Misuratah, Tr Read more →
• 2Africa (2024) — 2Africa is a major intercontinental submarine cable system spanning 34 countries across West Africa, Middle East, Southern Africa. With 50 landing points — including Abidjan, Abu Dhabi, Accra, Al Faw, Al Khobar, and 45 more — it forms one of the backbone links carrying international internet traffic between continents. Read more →
• Medloop (2023) — Medloop is a regional submarine cable serving 3 countries: France, Spain, Italy. With landing points at Ajaccio, Barcelona, Genoa, Marseille, it strengthens regional internet resilience and provides route diversity — crucial when nearby cables experience faults. Read more →

Submarine cable data from TeleGeography. Geographic context from Wikipedia. Monitoring metrics updated continuously by GeoCables.