Classic route
Almería–Granada
Almería → Granada · Spain
- Distance
- 176 km
- Fastest time
- ≈ 2 h 25 min
- Average speed
- 73 km/h
- Operator
- Renfe
- Train
- Media Distancia
- Countries
- Spain
- In service since
- 1895
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
Across the high desert of the Hoya de Guadix: Almería’s palms to Granada by way of Moreda, through the badlands the spaghetti Westerns loved.
How this line was checked
- The 171 km this route shares with OpenStreetMap relation 6641022 is drawn from that relation's own nodes, thinned to within 30 m of them
- Checked against OpenStreetMap: the whole line lies on real track, a median 10 m from it
- Checked against the running timetable via ÖBB Scotty: our line sits 0.1 km from the shape of IR 37087
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