Route brief · BCN → EDI
Barcelona → Edinburgh
$61
−59% vs typical
seasonal median $150 · difference $89
Sep 9 – Sep 16 · 7 nights
RyanairNonstop
- Usual monthly lows
- $99–$152
- Board rank
- Stronger than 98%
- Route sample
- 4 observed months
Cached fare — the booking search re-prices live before you pay.
Destination briefEDIEdinburghA volcanic crag with a castle on it, a medieval old town below, and the Highlands within a morning.Best windowMay–SepAirportsEdinburgh (EDI)All routes into EdinburghWhen this route gets cheap.
Cached-fare history: across 4 months, Sep is the cheapest for BCN → EDI. Best time to be there: May–Sep.
Fares bottom out in September around $61 and peak in April near $159 — a $98 spread across the 4 months we track. The cheapest itinerary we are tracking flies Ryanair nonstop and takes about 3 hours outbound, on a 7-night trip. At $61 for 1,665 km each way, that works out to about $18 per 1,000 km flown. That is well under the $41 that short-haul fares on this board typically run. Of the 8 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Edinburgh, this is the cheapest right now — 30% under the next one, Milan. It is also the 2nd cheapest of the 9 routes of similar length we watch out of Barcelona.
The 6 days we hold a cached fare for
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The median cached fare across this calendar is 46% lower than when tracking began on Aug 8 — $215 then versus $116 now, across 5 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 $62, on Sep 9.
These are the only days we have a cached price for on this route so far — not the only days it flies. The search above covers any date.
Cheapest in Sep · around $61
59% below the $150 typical fare
Cheapest round-trip fare found per month · Barcelona → Edinburgh · cached-price history
Route facts
- Airports
- El Prat (BCN) ↔ Edinburgh (EDI)
- Flight time
- ~3 hours outbound
- Distance
- ~1,665 km each way
- Typical price
- $150 round-trip (seasonal median)
- Airlines on the board
- Ryanair
- Itineraries
- Nonstop available
- Best months to visit
- May–Sep
BCN → EDI, answered.
Is $61 a good price for Barcelona to Edinburgh?
Yes — the seasonal median for this route is around $150 round-trip. At $61 you're 59% below that, saving about $89, which we rate exceptional for this route.
What is the cheapest month to fly from Barcelona to Edinburgh?
Across 4 months of cached-fare history, Sep comes out cheapest on this route. The best months to actually be in Edinburgh are May–Sep — when those overlap, that's your window.
How far in advance should I book BCN → Edinburgh?
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 4 months of cached fares, Sep comes out lowest on this route. See /guides/what-moves-a-flight-price/ for what does move a fare.
Are there nonstop flights from Barcelona to Edinburgh?
Yes — the current board includes nonstop fares (Ryanair). 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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