Getting from Federico Garcia Lorca Granada Airport to the city

What the data actually shows

• A stop named Aeropuerto sits about 430 metres from the runway reference point in the Andalusian consortium's published network data.
• A second, Acceso A Chauchina, is about 280 metres away on the access road.
• The heavy services here are village lines, not airport lines. Line 0242, Granada to Santa Fe to Chauchina to Cijuela, has about 137 scheduled calls. Line 0240 runs the same corridor to Fuente Vaqueros, 07:00 to 22:48.
• Lines 0241 and 0336 add trips through the day.
• Line 0245, Granada-Aeropuerto, appears with a single scheduled call. Do not build a plan on it.

What that means in practice

• The corridor buses do pass the airport, so a connection exists, but it is a rural service pattern.
• Check the timetable for the specific day. These lines thin out at weekends.
• The airport also has an operator-run coach linked to flight times, which is the conventional way visitors reach the city.

The geography

• Granada's airport is about 15 km west of the city, on the vega, the flat farmland below the Sierra Nevada.
• Santa Fe and Fuente Vaqueros are the villages nearby. Fuente Vaqueros is where Federico Garcia Lorca was born, which is who the airport is named after.
• Granada's own bus station is at Carretera de Jaen, north-west of the centre, and that is where intercity coaches arrive.

Alternatives

• Malaga is about 130 km away and many visitors to Granada fly there instead, with a direct coach.
• Granada has high-speed rail to Madrid, so the train is a serious alternative to flying domestically.