Route brief · LAX → MAD
Los Angeles → Madrid
$542
−21% vs typical
seasonal median $690 · difference $148
Nov 17 – Nov 30 · 13 nights
Royal Air Maroc1 stop
- Usual monthly lows
- $579–$690
- Board rank
- Stronger than 58%
- Route sample
- 4 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 4 months, Nov is the cheapest for LA → MAD. Best time to be there: Apr–Jun · Sep–Oct.
Fares bottom out in November around $542 and peak in December near $750 — a $208 spread across the 4 months we track. The cheapest itinerary we are tracking makes one stop and takes about 12.5 hours outbound, on a 13-night trip — ticketed under Royal Air Maroc, which on a connecting fare need not operate every leg. At $542 for 9,363 km each way, that works out to about $29 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 Madrid, this fare ranks 4th — 56% above the $347 from Miami. That puts it in the cheaper half of the 40 routes of similar length we watch out of Los Angeles, where the middle fare is $687.
The 6 days we hold a cached fare for
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The median cached fare across this calendar is unchanged since tracking began on Aug 8 — $724 then versus $724 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 $558, on Oct 2.
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.
Cheapest in Nov · around $542
21% below the $690 typical fare
Cheapest round-trip fare found per month · Los Angeles → Madrid · cached-price history
Route facts
- Airports
- LAX · Burbank (BUR) · Long Beach (LGB) ↔ Barajas (MAD)
- Flight time
- ~12.5 hours outbound
- Distance
- ~9,363 km each way
- Typical price
- $690 round-trip (seasonal median)
- Airlines on the board
- Royal Air Maroc
- Itineraries
- Connections on current fares
- Best months to visit
- Apr–Jun · Sep–Oct
LA → MAD, answered.
Is $542 a good price for Los Angeles to Madrid?
Yes — the seasonal median for this route is around $690 round-trip. At $542 you're 21% below that, saving about $148, which we rate good for this route.
What is the cheapest month to fly from Los Angeles to Madrid?
Across 4 months of cached-fare history, Nov 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 LA → 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 4 months of cached fares, Nov 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 Madrid?
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.
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