Route brief · DXB → MAD
Dubai → Madrid
$295
−24% vs typical
seasonal median $390 · difference $95
Dec 13 – Jan 9 '27 · 27 nights
Wizz Air2 stops
- Usual monthly lows
- $326–$467
- Board rank
- Stronger than 66%
- Route sample
- 6 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 6 months, Dec is the cheapest for DXB → MAD. Best time to be there: Apr–Jun · Sep–Oct.
Fares bottom out in December around $295 and peak in March near $473 — a $178 spread across the 6 months we track. The cheapest itinerary we are tracking makes 2 stops and takes about 10 hours outbound, on a 27-night trip — ticketed under Wizz Air, which on a connecting fare need not operate every leg. At $295 for 5,656 km each way, that works out to about $26 per 1,000 km flown. That is well under the $39 that medium-haul fares on this board typically run. Of the 7 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Madrid, this is the cheapest right now — 27% under the next one, Chicago. That puts it in the cheaper half of the 40 routes of similar length we watch out of Dubai, where the middle fare is $327.
Day-level prices for the next 4 months
Tap any day → live search
The median cached fare across this calendar is 16% lower than when tracking began on Aug 8 — $491 then versus $414 now, across 6 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 $291, on Oct 26.
Cached day-level data for this route is sparse — 21 of 122 days priced, from 68 tracked fares. The days below are shown as found, with no cheapest-day or below-median call.
September 2026
November 2026
December 2026
Cheapest in Dec · around $295
24% below the $390 typical fare
Cheapest round-trip fare found per month · Dubai → Madrid · cached-price history
Route facts
- Airports
- DXB · Al Maktoum (DWC) ↔ Barajas (MAD)
- Flight time
- ~10 hours outbound
- Distance
- ~5,656 km each way
- Typical price
- $390 round-trip (seasonal median)
- Airlines on the board
- Wizz Air
- Itineraries
- Connections on current fares
- Best months to visit
- Apr–Jun · Sep–Oct
DXB → MAD, answered.
Is $295 a good price for Dubai to Madrid?
Yes — the seasonal median for this route is around $390 round-trip. At $295 you're 24% below that, saving about $95, which we rate good for this route.
What is the cheapest month to fly from Dubai to Madrid?
Across 6 months of cached-fare history, Dec 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 DXB → 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 6 months of cached fares, Dec comes out lowest on this route. See /guides/what-moves-a-flight-price/ for what does move a fare.
Are there nonstop flights from Dubai to Madrid?
The current cheapest fares involve a connection, ticketed under Wizz Air. 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.
Next step
Sleeping in Madrid?
Lock the flight first — then compare stays for Dec 13 – Jan 9 '27 · 27 nights.
Browse hotels ↗
Missed it?
Cached fares expire. This route has a feed of its own — follow it and the next DXB → MAD drop reaches you as soon as we find it.
Follow DXB → MAD