Route brief · AMS → LIS
Amsterdam → Lisbon
$155
−16% vs typical
seasonal median $185 · difference $30
Jan 16 '27 – Jan 28 '27 · 12 nights
TransaviaNonstop
- Usual monthly lows
- $171–$222
- Board rank
- Stronger than 42%
- Route sample
- 7 observed months
Cached fare — the booking search re-prices live before you pay.
Destination briefLISLisbonTiled hills, custard tarts, Atlantic light — TAP’s hub wars keep this Europe’s cheapest gateway.Best windowMar–Jun · Sep–OctAirportsHumberto Delgado (LIS)All routes into LisbonWhen this route gets cheap.
Cached-fare history: across 7 months, Jan is the cheapest for AMS → LIS. Best time to be there: Mar–Jun · Sep–Oct.
Fares bottom out in January around $155 and peak in April near $316 — a $161 spread across the 7 months we track. The cheapest itinerary we are tracking flies Transavia nonstop and takes about 3 hours outbound, on a 12-night trip. At $155 for 1,863 km each way, that works out to about $42 per 1,000 km flown. That is about the $41 typical of short-haul fares here. Across the 12 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Lisbon, this fare ranks 11th — 2.3× the $68 we hold from London. That puts it in the cheaper half of the 13 routes of similar length we watch out of Amsterdam, where the middle fare is $155.
Cheapest day in the next 3 months: Nov 18 · $166 (25% below median)
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The median cached fare across this calendar is 1% higher than when tracking began on Aug 8 — $212 then versus $214 now, across 8 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 $146, on Sep 8.
September 2026
October 2026
Cheapest in Jan · around $155
16% below the $185 typical fare
Cheapest round-trip fare found per month · Amsterdam → Lisbon · cached-price history
Route facts
- Airports
- Schiphol (AMS) ↔ Humberto Delgado (LIS)
- Flight time
- ~3 hours outbound
- Distance
- ~1,863 km each way
- Typical price
- $185 round-trip (seasonal median)
- Airlines on the board
- Transavia
- Itineraries
- Nonstop available
- Best months to visit
- Mar–Jun · Sep–Oct
AMS → LIS, answered.
Is $155 a good price for Amsterdam to Lisbon?
Only slightly. The seasonal median is around $185 round-trip and this fare is 16% under it, about $30. 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 Lisbon?
Across 7 months of cached-fare history, Jan comes out cheapest on this route. The best months to actually be in Lisbon are Mar–Jun · Sep–Oct — when those overlap, that's your window.
How far in advance should I book AMS → Lisbon?
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, Jan 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 Lisbon?
Yes — the current board includes nonstop fares (Transavia). The outbound leg runs around 3 hours.
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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