Route brief · BCN → ROM
Barcelona → Rome
$51
−7% vs typical
seasonal median $55 · difference $4
Oct 6 – Oct 10 · 4 nights
Wizz Air MaltaNonstop
- Usual monthly lows
- $51–$68
- Board rank
- Stronger than 11%
- Route sample
- 5 observed months
Cached fare — the booking search re-prices live before you pay.
Destination briefROMRomeTwenty-eight centuries of showing off. Shoulder-season fares make the Colosseum a weekend idea.Best windowApr–Jun · Sep–OctAirportsFiumicino (FCO) · Ciampino (CIA)All routes into RomeWhen this route gets cheap.
Cached-fare history: across 5 months, Oct is the cheapest for BCN → ROM. Best time to be there: Apr–Jun · Sep–Oct.
Fares bottom out in October around $51 and peak in January near $140 — a $89 spread across the 5 months we track. The cheapest itinerary we are tracking flies Wizz Air Malta nonstop and takes about 2 hours outbound, on a 4-night trip. At $51 for 859 km each way, that works out to about $30 per 1,000 km flown. That is below the $41 typical of short-haul fares here. Across the 6 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Rome, this fare ranks 2nd — 9% above the $47 from Vienna. That puts it in the cheaper half of the 9 routes of similar length we watch out of Barcelona, where the middle fare is $57.
Cheapest day in the next 3 months: Oct 13 · $50 (32% below median)
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The median cached fare across this calendar is 29% lower than when tracking began on Aug 8 — $90 then versus $64 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 $49, on Nov 26.
September 2026
Cheapest in Oct · around $51
7% below the $55 typical fare
Cheapest round-trip fare found per month · Barcelona → Rome · cached-price history
Route facts
- Airports
- El Prat (BCN) ↔ Fiumicino (FCO) · Ciampino (CIA)
- Flight time
- ~2 hours outbound
- Distance
- ~859 km each way
- Typical price
- $55 round-trip (seasonal median)
- Airlines on the board
- Wizz Air Malta
- Itineraries
- Nonstop available
- Best months to visit
- Apr–Jun · Sep–Oct
BCN → ROM, answered.
Is $51 a good price for Barcelona to Rome?
Only slightly. The seasonal median is around $55 round-trip and this fare is 7% 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 Rome?
Across 5 months of cached-fare history, Oct comes out cheapest on this route. The best months to actually be in Rome are Apr–Jun · Sep–Oct — when those overlap, that's your window.
How far in advance should I book BCN → Rome?
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, 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 Barcelona to Rome?
Yes — the current board includes nonstop fares (Wizz Air Malta). The outbound leg runs around 2 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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