Route brief · LIS → MAD
Lisbon → Madrid
$32
−51% vs typical
seasonal median $65 · difference $33
Sep 22 – Sep 29 · 7 nights
TAP Air PortugalNonstop
- Usual monthly lows
- $58–$82
- Board rank
- Stronger than 96%
- Route sample
- 10 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 10 months, Sep is the cheapest for LIS → MAD. Best time to be there: Apr–Jun · Sep–Oct.
Fares bottom out in September around $32 and peak in April near $96 — a $64 spread across the 10 months we track. The cheapest itinerary we are tracking flies TAP Air Portugal nonstop and takes about 1.5 hours outbound, on a 7-night trip.
Cheapest day in the next 3 months: Sep 21 · $31 (70% below median)
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The median cached fare across this calendar is 4% higher than when tracking began on Aug 8 — $83 then versus $86 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 $28, on Sep 28.
September 2026
Cheapest in Sep · around $32
51% below the $65 typical fare
Cheapest round-trip fare found per month · Lisbon → Madrid · cached-price history
Route facts
- Airports
- Humberto Delgado (LIS) ↔ Barajas (MAD)
- Flight time
- ~1.5 hours outbound
- Distance
- ~503 km each way
- Typical price
- $65 round-trip (seasonal median)
- Airlines on the board
- TAP Air Portugal
- Itineraries
- Nonstop available
- Best months to visit
- Apr–Jun · Sep–Oct
LIS → MAD, answered.
Is $32 a good price for Lisbon to Madrid?
Yes — the seasonal median for this route is around $65 round-trip. At $32 you're 51% below that, saving about $33, which we rate rare for this route.
What is the cheapest month to fly from Lisbon to Madrid?
Across 10 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 LIS → 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We do not publish a number for this, because we cannot measure it yet.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 10 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 Lisbon to Madrid?
Yes — the current board includes nonstop fares (TAP Air Portugal). The outbound leg runs around 1.5 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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