Route brief · CAN → MAD
Guangzhou → Madrid
$781
round-trip · too little price history on this route to compare
Nov 23 – Dec 4 · 11 nights
Hainan Airlines3 stops
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.
Best time to be in Madrid: Apr–Jun · Sep–Oct. Fare history for this route is still thin, so we make no seasonal call yet.
The cheapest itinerary we are tracking makes 3 stops and takes about 16.5 hours outbound, on a 11-night trip — ticketed under Hainan Airlines, which on a connecting fare need not operate every leg. At $781 for 10,408 km each way, that works out to about $38 per 1,000 km flown. That is below the $44 typical of long-haul fares here. Across the 16 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Madrid, this fare ranks 14th — 1.8× the $431 we hold from Houston. That puts it in the cheaper half of the 27 routes of similar length we watch out of Guangzhou, where the middle fare is $880. We have 1 month of cached prices for this route so far — not enough to call a fare cheap or expensive, so we publish the price without a percentage.
The one day we hold a cached fare for
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The median cached fare across this calendar is 15% lower than when tracking began on Aug 17 — $922 then versus $781 now, across 3 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 $781, on Nov 23.
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.
Route facts
- Airports
- Baiyun (CAN) ↔ Barajas (MAD)
- Flight time
- ~16.5 hours outbound
- Distance
- ~10,408 km each way
- Airlines on the board
- Hainan Airlines
- Itineraries
- Connections on current fares
- Best months to visit
- Apr–Jun · Sep–Oct
CAN → MAD, answered.
How far in advance should I book CAN → 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We do not publish a number for this, because we cannot measure it yet.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. See /guides/what-moves-a-flight-price/ for the levers we can measure.
Are there nonstop flights from Guangzhou to Madrid?
The current cheapest fares involve a connection, ticketed under Hainan 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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