Route brief · LAX → BCN
Los Angeles → Barcelona
$579
−26% vs typical
seasonal median $785 · difference $206
Oct 6 – Oct 15 · 9 nights
Royal Air Maroc1 stop
- Usual monthly lows
- $779–$919
- Board rank
- Stronger than 71%
- Route sample
- 7 observed months
Cached fare — the booking search re-prices live before you pay.
Destination briefBCNBarcelonaGaudí’s fever dream with a beach attached. One of the cheapest big-city landings in Europe.Best windowMay–Jun · Sep–OctAirportsEl Prat (BCN)All routes into BarcelonaWhen this route gets cheap.
Cached-fare history: across 7 months, Oct is the cheapest for LA → BCN. Best time to be there: May–Jun · Sep–Oct.
Fares bottom out in October around $579 and peak in April near $935 — a $356 spread across the 7 months we track. The cheapest itinerary we are tracking makes one stop and takes about 13 hours outbound, on a 9-night trip — ticketed under Royal Air Maroc, which on a connecting fare need not operate every leg. At $579 for 9,654 km each way, that works out to about $30 per 1,000 km flown. That is well under the $44 that long-haul fares on this board typically run. Across the 17 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Barcelona, this fare ranks 5th — 25% above the $465 from Houston. That puts it in the cheaper half of the 42 routes of similar length we watch out of Los Angeles, where the middle fare is $687.
Day-level prices for the next 3 months
Tap any day → live search
The median cached fare across this calendar is 9% higher than when tracking began on Aug 8 — $807 then versus $878 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 $530, on Sep 11.
Cached day-level data for this route is sparse — 9 of 101 days priced, from 53 tracked fares. The days below are shown as found, with no cheapest-day or below-median call.
October 2026
November 2026
Cheapest in Oct · around $579
26% below the $785 typical fare
Cheapest round-trip fare found per month · Los Angeles → Barcelona · cached-price history
Route facts
- Airports
- LAX · Burbank (BUR) · Long Beach (LGB) ↔ El Prat (BCN)
- Flight time
- ~13 hours outbound
- Distance
- ~9,654 km each way
- Typical price
- $785 round-trip (seasonal median)
- Airlines on the board
- Royal Air Maroc
- Itineraries
- Connections on current fares
- Best months to visit
- May–Jun · Sep–Oct
LA → BCN, answered.
Is $579 a good price for Los Angeles to Barcelona?
Yes — the seasonal median for this route is around $785 round-trip. At $579 you're 26% below that, saving about $206, which we rate good for this route.
What is the cheapest month to fly from Los Angeles to Barcelona?
Across 7 months of cached-fare history, Oct comes out cheapest on this route. The best months to actually be in Barcelona are May–Jun · Sep–Oct — when those overlap, that's your window.
How far in advance should I book LA → Barcelona?
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 7 months of cached fares, Oct comes out lowest on this route. See /guides/what-moves-a-flight-price/ for what does move a fare.
Are there nonstop flights from Los Angeles to Barcelona?
The current cheapest fares involve a connection, ticketed under Royal Air Maroc. 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 Barcelona?
Lock the flight first — then compare stays for Oct 6 – Oct 15 · 9 nights.
Browse hotels ↗
Missed it?
Cached fares expire. This route has a feed of its own — follow it and the next LA → BCN drop reaches you as soon as we find it.
Follow LA → BCN