Route brief · DFW → MAD
Dallas → Madrid
$461
−31% vs typical
seasonal median $665 · difference $204
Sep 11 – Sep 23 · 12 nights
Turkish Airlines1 stop
- Usual monthly lows
- $509–$667
- Board rank
- Stronger than 80%
- 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, Sep is the cheapest for DFW → MAD. Best time to be there: Apr–Jun · Sep–Oct.
Fares bottom out in September around $461 and peak in November near $747 — a $286 spread across the 4 months we track. The cheapest itinerary we are tracking makes one stop and takes about 16.5 hours outbound, on a 12-night trip — ticketed under Turkish Airlines, which on a connecting fare need not operate every leg. At $461 for 7,956 km each way, that works out to about $29 per 1,000 km flown. That is well under the $44 that long-haul fares on this board typically run. Across the 11 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Madrid, this fare ranks 4th — 33% above the $347 from Miami. It is also the cheapest of the 27 routes of similar length we watch out of Dallas.
The 3 days we hold a cached fare for
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The median cached fare across this calendar is 26% lower than when tracking began on Aug 17 — $659 then versus $488 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 $461, on Sep 11.
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 $461
31% below the $665 typical fare
Cheapest round-trip fare found per month · Dallas → Madrid · cached-price history
Route facts
- Airports
- DFW · Love Field (DAL) ↔ Barajas (MAD)
- Flight time
- ~16.5 hours outbound
- Distance
- ~7,956 km each way
- Typical price
- $665 round-trip (seasonal median)
- Airlines on the board
- Turkish Airlines
- Itineraries
- Connections on current fares
- Best months to visit
- Apr–Jun · Sep–Oct
DFW → MAD, answered.
Is $461 a good price for Dallas to Madrid?
Yes — the seasonal median for this route is around $665 round-trip. At $461 you're 31% below that, saving about $204, which we rate great for this route.
What is the cheapest month to fly from Dallas to Madrid?
Across 4 months of cached-fare history, Sep 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 DFW → 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, 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 Dallas to Madrid?
The current cheapest fares involve a connection, ticketed under Turkish Airlines. 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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