Route brief · BCN → HAM
Barcelona → Hamburg
$111
−3% vs typical
seasonal median $115 · difference $4
Nov 22 – Nov 28 · 6 nights
VuelingNonstop
- Usual monthly lows
- $113–$134
- Board rank
- Stronger than 2%
- Route sample
- 5 observed months
Cached fare — the booking search re-prices live before you pay.
Destination briefHAMHamburgMore canals than Venice and a working port at its centre — Germany at its least postcard-like.Best windowMay–SepAirportsHamburg (HAM)All routes into HamburgWhen this route gets cheap.
Cached-fare history: across 5 months, Nov is the cheapest for BCN → HAM. Best time to be there: May–Sep.
Fares bottom out in November around $111 and peak in December near $144 — a $33 spread across the 5 months we track. The cheapest itinerary we are tracking flies Vueling nonstop and takes about 3 hours outbound, on a 6-night trip. At $111 for 1,473 km each way, that works out to about $38 per 1,000 km flown. That is below the $41 typical of short-haul fares here. Across the 3 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Hamburg, this fare ranks 2nd — 1.9× the $58 we hold from Rome. For context, the middle fare among the 7 routes of similar length we watch out of Barcelona is $83.
Day-level prices for the next 3 months
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The median cached fare across this calendar is 18% lower than when tracking began on Aug 8 — $196 then versus $161 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 $111, on Nov 22.
Cached day-level data for this route is sparse — 13 of 93 days priced, from 39 tracked fares. The days below are shown as found, with no cheapest-day or below-median call.
November 2026
Cheapest in Nov · around $111
3% below the $115 typical fare
Cheapest round-trip fare found per month · Barcelona → Hamburg · cached-price history
Route facts
- Airports
- El Prat (BCN) ↔ Hamburg (HAM)
- Flight time
- ~3 hours outbound
- Distance
- ~1,473 km each way
- Typical price
- $115 round-trip (seasonal median)
- Airlines on the board
- Vueling
- Itineraries
- Nonstop available
- Best months to visit
- May–Sep
BCN → HAM, answered.
Is $111 a good price for Barcelona to Hamburg?
Only slightly. The seasonal median is around $115 round-trip and this fare is 3% under it, about $4. 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 Barcelona to Hamburg?
Across 5 months of cached-fare history, Nov comes out cheapest on this route. The best months to actually be in Hamburg are May–Sep — when those overlap, that's your window.
How far in advance should I book BCN → Hamburg?
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 5 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 Barcelona to Hamburg?
Yes — the current board includes nonstop fares (Vueling). 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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