Route brief · MAD → BCN
Madrid → Barcelona
$91
−13% vs typical
seasonal median $105 · difference $14
Jan 7 '27 – Jan 10 '27 · 3 nights
Wizz Air Malta1 stop
- Usual monthly lows
- $92–$112
- Board rank
- Stronger than 31%
- Route sample
- 5 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 5 months, Jan is the cheapest for MAD → BCN. Best time to be there: May–Jun · Sep–Oct.
Fares bottom out in January around $91 and peak in October near $115 — a $24 spread across the 5 months we track. The cheapest itinerary we are tracking makes one stop and takes about 2.5 hours outbound, on a 3-night trip — ticketed under Wizz Air Malta, which on a connecting fare need not operate every leg. For context, the middle fare among the 7 routes of similar length we watch out of Madrid is $50.
Cheapest day in the next 3 months: Nov 11 · $101 (21% below median)
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The median cached fare across this calendar is 3% higher than when tracking began on Aug 8 — $130 then versus $134 now, across 7 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 $84, on Aug 12.
September 2026
November 2026
Cheapest in Jan · around $91
13% below the $105 typical fare
Cheapest round-trip fare found per month · Madrid → Barcelona · cached-price history
Route facts
- Airports
- Barajas (MAD) ↔ El Prat (BCN)
- Flight time
- ~2.5 hours outbound
- Distance
- ~505 km each way
- Typical price
- $105 round-trip (seasonal median)
- Airlines on the board
- Wizz Air Malta
- Itineraries
- Connections on current fares
- Best months to visit
- May–Jun · Sep–Oct
MAD → BCN, answered.
Is $91 a good price for Madrid to Barcelona?
Only slightly. The seasonal median is around $105 round-trip and this fare is 13% under it, about $14. 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 Barcelona?
Across 5 months of cached-fare history, Jan 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 MAD → 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 5 months of cached fares, Jan 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 Barcelona?
The current cheapest fares involve a connection, ticketed under Wizz Air Malta. 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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