Route brief · DUB → MAD
Dublin → Madrid
$103
−10% vs typical
seasonal median $115 · difference $12
Feb 27 '27 – Mar 2 '27 · 3 nights
IberiaNonstop
- Usual monthly lows
- $106–$172
- Board rank
- Stronger than 20%
- 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, Feb is the cheapest for DUB → MAD. Best time to be there: Apr–Jun · Sep–Oct.
Fares bottom out in February around $103 and peak in March near $248 — a $145 spread across the 6 months we track. The cheapest itinerary we are tracking flies Iberia nonstop and takes about 2.5 hours outbound, on a 3-night trip. At $103 for 1,451 km each way, that works out to about $35 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 6th — 2.8× the $37 we hold from Milan. That puts it in the cheaper half of the 16 routes of similar length we watch out of Dublin, where the middle fare is $114.
Day-level prices for the next 4 months
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The median cached fare across this calendar is 32% higher than when tracking began on Aug 8 — $100 then versus $132 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 $68, on Sep 21.
Cached day-level data for this route is sparse — 13 of 122 days priced, from 30 tracked fares. The days below are shown as found, with no cheapest-day or below-median call.
November 2026
Cheapest in Feb · around $103
10% below the $115 typical fare
Cheapest round-trip fare found per month · Dublin → Madrid · cached-price history
Route facts
- Airports
- Dublin (DUB) ↔ Barajas (MAD)
- Flight time
- ~2.5 hours outbound
- Distance
- ~1,451 km each way
- Typical price
- $115 round-trip (seasonal median)
- Airlines on the board
- Iberia
- Itineraries
- Nonstop available
- Best months to visit
- Apr–Jun · Sep–Oct
DUB → MAD, answered.
Is $103 a good price for Dublin to Madrid?
Only slightly. The seasonal median is around $115 round-trip and this fare is 10% under it, about $12. 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 Dublin to Madrid?
Across 6 months of cached-fare history, Feb 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 DUB → 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, Feb comes out lowest on this route. See /guides/what-moves-a-flight-price/ for what does move a fare.
Are there nonstop flights from Dublin to Madrid?
Yes — the current board includes nonstop fares (Iberia). 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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