Route brief · AMS → MAD
Amsterdam → Madrid
$150
−14% vs typical
seasonal median $175 · difference $25
Nov 19 – Nov 22 · 3 nights
Ryanair1 stop
- Usual monthly lows
- $163–$180
- Board rank
- Stronger than 35%
- Route sample
- 6 observed months
Cached fare — the booking search re-prices live before you pay.
Destination briefMADMadridDinner at 10pm, museums at world-class density, and Iberia fare sales that border on typos.Best windowApr–Jun · Sep–OctAirportsBarajas (MAD)All routes into MadridWhen this route gets cheap.
Cached-fare history: across 6 months, Nov is the cheapest for AMS → MAD. Best time to be there: Apr–Jun · Sep–Oct.
Fares bottom out in November around $150 and peak in December near $278 — a $128 spread across the 6 months we track. The cheapest itinerary we are tracking makes one stop and takes about 4.5 hours outbound, on a 3-night trip — ticketed under Ryanair, which on a connecting fare need not operate every leg. At $150 for 1,481 km each way, that works out to about $51 per 1,000 km flown. That is above the $41 typical of short-haul fares here. Across the 10 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Madrid, this fare ranks 8th — 4.1× the $37 we hold from Milan. That puts it in the cheaper half of the 11 routes of similar length we watch out of Amsterdam, where the middle fare is $172.
Cheapest day in the next 4 months: Nov 19 · $150 (34% below median)
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The median cached fare across this calendar is 5% higher than when tracking began on Aug 8 — $208 then versus $218 now, across 6 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 $147, on Sep 19.
September 2026
October 2026
Cheapest in Nov · around $150
14% below the $175 typical fare
Cheapest round-trip fare found per month · Amsterdam → Madrid · cached-price history
Route facts
- Airports
- Schiphol (AMS) ↔ Barajas (MAD)
- Flight time
- ~4.5 hours outbound
- Distance
- ~1,481 km each way
- Typical price
- $175 round-trip (seasonal median)
- Airlines on the board
- Ryanair
- Itineraries
- Connections on current fares
- Best months to visit
- Apr–Jun · Sep–Oct
AMS → MAD, answered.
Is $150 a good price for Amsterdam to Madrid?
Only slightly. The seasonal median is around $175 round-trip and this fare is 14% under it, about $25. 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 Madrid?
Across 6 months of cached-fare history, Nov comes out cheapest on this route. The best months to actually be in Madrid are Apr–Jun · Sep–Oct — when those overlap, that's your window.
How far in advance should I book AMS → Madrid?
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 6 months of cached fares, Nov 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 Madrid?
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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