Route brief · BRU → MAD
Brussels → Madrid
$87
−17% vs typical
seasonal median $105 · difference $18
Nov 9 – Nov 12 · 3 nights
RyanairNonstop
- Usual monthly lows
- $88–$103
- Board rank
- Stronger than 45%
- Route sample
- 4 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 4 months, Nov is the cheapest for BRU → MAD. Best time to be there: Apr–Jun · Sep–Oct.
Fares bottom out in November around $87 and peak in December near $157 — a $70 spread across the 4 months we track. The cheapest itinerary we are tracking flies Ryanair nonstop and takes about 2.5 hours outbound, on a 3-night trip. At $87 for 1,316 km each way, that works out to about $33 per 1,000 km flown. That is below the $41 typical of short-haul fares here. Across the 10 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Madrid, this fare ranks 5th — 2.4× the $37 we hold from Milan. For context, the middle fare among the 12 routes of similar length we watch out of Brussels is $85.
Day-level prices for the next 3 months
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The median cached fare across this calendar is 27% lower than when tracking began on Aug 8 — $186 then versus $135 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 $56, on Sep 30.
Cached day-level data for this route is sparse — 17 of 93 days priced, from 60 tracked fares. The days below are shown as found, with no cheapest-day or below-median call.
Cheapest in Nov · around $87
17% below the $105 typical fare
Cheapest round-trip fare found per month · Brussels → Madrid · cached-price history
Route facts
- Airports
- Zaventem (BRU) · Charleroi (CRL) ↔ Barajas (MAD)
- Flight time
- ~2.5 hours outbound
- Distance
- ~1,316 km each way
- Typical price
- $105 round-trip (seasonal median)
- Airlines on the board
- Ryanair
- Itineraries
- Nonstop available
- Best months to visit
- Apr–Jun · Sep–Oct
BRU → MAD, answered.
Is $87 a good price for Brussels to Madrid?
Only slightly. The seasonal median is around $105 round-trip and this fare is 17% under it, about $18. 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 Brussels to Madrid?
Across 4 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 BRU → 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 4 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 Brussels to Madrid?
Yes — the current board includes nonstop fares (Ryanair). The outbound leg runs around 2.5 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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