Route brief · MAD → PEK
Madrid → Beijing
$540
−8% vs typical
seasonal median $590 · difference $50
Dec 2 – Dec 7 · 5 nights
Hainan Airlines1 stop
- Usual monthly lows
- $557–$656
- Board rank
- Stronger than 14%
- Route sample
- 5 observed months
Cached fare — the booking search re-prices live before you pay.
Destination briefPEKBeijingImperial scale — the Forbidden City, the Wall an hour north, and a visa-free transit window worth checking.Best windowSep–Oct · Apr–MayAirportsCapital (PEK) · Daxing (PKX)All routes into BeijingWhen this route gets cheap.
Cached-fare history: across 5 months, Dec is the cheapest for MAD → PEK. Best time to be there: Sep–Oct · Apr–May.
Fares bottom out in December around $540 and peak in November near $656 — a $116 spread across the 5 months we track. The cheapest itinerary we are tracking makes one stop and takes about 14 hours outbound, on a 5-night trip — ticketed under Hainan Airlines, which on a connecting fare need not operate every leg. At $540 for 9,218 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 28 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Beijing, this fare ranks 3rd — 3% above the $525 from Istanbul. It is also the 3rd cheapest of the 35 routes of similar length we watch out of Madrid.
Day-level prices for the next 3 months
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The median cached fare across this calendar is 7% higher than when tracking began on Aug 8 — $684 then versus $729 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 $592, on Nov 5.
Cached day-level data for this route is sparse — 12 of 101 days priced, from 22 tracked fares. The days below are shown as found, with no cheapest-day or below-median call.
Cheapest in Dec · around $540
8% below the $590 typical fare
Cheapest round-trip fare found per month · Madrid → Beijing · cached-price history
Route facts
- Airports
- Barajas (MAD) ↔ Capital (PEK) · Daxing (PKX)
- Flight time
- ~14 hours outbound
- Distance
- ~9,218 km each way
- Typical price
- $590 round-trip (seasonal median)
- Airlines on the board
- Hainan Airlines
- Itineraries
- Connections on current fares
- Best months to visit
- Sep–Oct · Apr–May
MAD → PEK, answered.
Is $540 a good price for Madrid to Beijing?
Only slightly. The seasonal median is around $590 round-trip and this fare is 8% under it, about $50. 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 Beijing?
Across 5 months of cached-fare history, Dec comes out cheapest on this route. The best months to actually be in Beijing are Sep–Oct · Apr–May — when those overlap, that's your window.
How far in advance should I book MAD → Beijing?
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, Dec 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 Beijing?
The current cheapest fares involve a connection, ticketed under Hainan Airlines. 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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