Route brief · AMS → BCN
Amsterdam → Barcelona
$132
−6% vs typical
seasonal median $140 · difference $8
Oct 10 – Oct 14 · 4 nights
Ryanair1 stop
- Usual monthly lows
- $138–$169
- Board rank
- Stronger than 8%
- Route sample
- 7 observed months
Cached fare — the booking search re-prices live before you pay.
Destination briefBCNBarcelonaGaudí’s fever dream with a beach attached. One of the cheapest big-city landings in Europe.Best windowMay–Jun · Sep–OctAirportsEl Prat (BCN)All routes into BarcelonaWhen this route gets cheap.
Cached-fare history: across 7 months, Oct is the cheapest for AMS → BCN. Best time to be there: May–Jun · Sep–Oct.
Fares bottom out in October around $132 and peak in July near $241 — a $109 spread across the 7 months we track. The cheapest itinerary we are tracking makes one stop and takes about 4 hours outbound, on a 4-night trip — ticketed under Ryanair, which on a connecting fare need not operate every leg. At $132 for 1,239 km each way, that works out to about $53 per 1,000 km flown. That is above the $41 typical of short-haul fares here. Across the 9 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Barcelona, this fare ranks 9th — 3.4× the $39 we hold from London. It is also the 3rd cheapest of the 11 routes of similar length we watch out of Amsterdam.
Cheapest day in the next 3 months: Oct 13 · $137 (23% below median)
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The median cached fare across this calendar is 2% higher than when tracking began on Aug 8 — $166 then versus $170 now, across 7 recorded snapshots. This is a calendar-level trend, so an individual deal above can be lower. The lowest single day we have seen here is $120, on Sep 26.
September 2026
October 2026
Cheapest in Oct · around $132
6% below the $140 typical fare
Cheapest round-trip fare found per month · Amsterdam → Barcelona · cached-price history
Route facts
- Airports
- Schiphol (AMS) ↔ El Prat (BCN)
- Flight time
- ~4 hours outbound
- Distance
- ~1,239 km each way
- Typical price
- $140 round-trip (seasonal median)
- Airlines on the board
- Ryanair
- Itineraries
- Connections on current fares
- Best months to visit
- May–Jun · Sep–Oct
AMS → BCN, answered.
Is $132 a good price for Amsterdam to Barcelona?
Only slightly. The seasonal median is around $140 round-trip and this fare is 6% under it, about $8. We do not call a drop notable until 20%, so this is an ordinary price for the route rather than a reason to hurry.
What is the cheapest month to fly from Amsterdam to Barcelona?
Across 7 months of cached-fare history, Oct comes out cheapest on this route. The best months to actually be in Barcelona are May–Jun · Sep–Oct — when those overlap, that's your window.
How far in advance should I book AMS → Barcelona?
We do not publish a number for this, because we cannot measure it yet. Answering it honestly means watching the same departure date on this route over many weeks as it approaches, and that archive is still filling up — so any "book N days ahead" figure here would be borrowed from somewhere else rather than measured. What we can measure is which month is cheap: across 7 months of cached fares, Oct comes out lowest on this route. See /guides/what-moves-a-flight-price/ for what does move a fare.
Are there nonstop flights from Amsterdam to Barcelona?
The current cheapest fares involve a connection, ticketed under Ryanair. Nonstop options exist on many dates at higher prices — check the live search for your exact dates.
Are these prices guaranteed?
No — these are cached fares found on real searches (this one on September 1). Airlines reprice constantly, so the booking search re-checks the live price before you pay. Fresher finds are far more likely to still be available.
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