Route brief · MAD → AMS
Madrid → Amsterdam
$173
−4% vs typical
seasonal median $180 · difference $7
Oct 15 – Oct 18 · 3 nights
IberiaNonstop
- Usual monthly lows
- $177–$182
- Board rank
- Stronger than 4%
- Route sample
- 5 observed months
Cached fare — the booking search re-prices live before you pay.
Destination briefAMSAmsterdamCanals, Vermeers and bicycles with right of way. KLM’s network makes it a deal-alert regular.Best windowApr–May · SepAirportsSchiphol (AMS)All routes into AmsterdamWhen this route gets cheap.
Cached-fare history: across 5 months, Oct is the cheapest for MAD → AMS. Best time to be there: Apr–May · Sep.
Fares bottom out in October around $173 and peak in December near $231 — a $58 spread across the 5 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 $173 for 1,481 km each way, that works out to about $58 per 1,000 km flown. That is above the $41 typical of short-haul fares here. Across the 4 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Amsterdam, this fare ranks 3rd — 32% above the $131 from Barcelona. For context, the middle fare among the 9 routes of similar length we watch out of Madrid is $118.
Cheapest day in the next 3 months: Sep 16 · $146 (40% below median)
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The median cached fare across this calendar is 9% lower than when tracking began on Aug 8 — $242 then versus $221 now, across 4 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 $146, on Sep 16.
November 2026
Cheapest in Oct · around $173
4% below the $180 typical fare
Cheapest round-trip fare found per month · Madrid → Amsterdam · cached-price history
Route facts
- Airports
- Barajas (MAD) ↔ Schiphol (AMS)
- Flight time
- ~2.5 hours outbound
- Distance
- ~1,481 km each way
- Typical price
- $180 round-trip (seasonal median)
- Airlines on the board
- Iberia
- Itineraries
- Nonstop available
- Best months to visit
- Apr–May · Sep
MAD → AMS, answered.
Is $173 a good price for Madrid to Amsterdam?
Only slightly. The seasonal median is around $180 round-trip and this fare is 4% under it, about $7. 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 Madrid to Amsterdam?
Across 5 months of cached-fare history, Oct comes out cheapest on this route. The best months to actually be in Amsterdam are Apr–May · Sep — when those overlap, that's your window.
How far in advance should I book MAD → Amsterdam?
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 5 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 Madrid to Amsterdam?
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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