Route brief · MAD → OTP
Madrid → Bucharest
$107
−11% vs typical
seasonal median $120 · difference $13
Jan 28 '27 – Jan 31 '27 · 3 nights
Wizz Air MaltaNonstop
- Usual monthly lows
- $110–$131
- Board rank
- Stronger than 24%
- Route sample
- 6 observed months
Cached fare — the booking search re-prices live before you pay.
Destination briefOTPBucharestBelle-époque villas next to communist concrete, and the cheapest capital in the European Union.Best windowMay–Jun · Sep–OctAirportsHenri Coandă (OTP)All routes into BucharestWhen this route gets cheap.
Cached-fare history: across 6 months, Jan is the cheapest for MAD → OTP. Best time to be there: May–Jun · Sep–Oct.
Fares bottom out in January around $107 and peak in July near $242 — a $135 spread across the 6 months we track. The cheapest itinerary we are tracking flies Wizz Air Malta nonstop and takes about 4 hours outbound, on a 3-night trip. At $107 for 2,470 km each way, that works out to about $22 per 1,000 km flown. That is well under the $41 that short-haul fares on this board typically run. Across the 7 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Bucharest, this fare ranks 5th — 1.7× the $64 we hold from London. That puts it in the cheaper half of the 10 routes of similar length we watch out of Madrid, where the middle fare is $130.
Day-level prices for the next 4 months
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The median cached fare across this calendar is 27% lower than when tracking began on Aug 8 — $180 then versus $132 now, across 6 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 $110, on Oct 26.
Cached day-level data for this route is sparse — 12 of 122 days priced, from 28 tracked fares. The days below are shown as found, with no cheapest-day or below-median call.
November 2026
Cheapest in Jan · around $107
11% below the $120 typical fare
Cheapest round-trip fare found per month · Madrid → Bucharest · cached-price history
Route facts
- Airports
- Barajas (MAD) ↔ Henri Coandă (OTP)
- Flight time
- ~4 hours outbound
- Distance
- ~2,470 km each way
- Typical price
- $120 round-trip (seasonal median)
- Airlines on the board
- Wizz Air Malta
- Itineraries
- Nonstop available
- Best months to visit
- May–Jun · Sep–Oct
MAD → OTP, answered.
Is $107 a good price for Madrid to Bucharest?
Only slightly. The seasonal median is around $120 round-trip and this fare is 11% under it, about $13. 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 Bucharest?
Across 6 months of cached-fare history, Jan comes out cheapest on this route. The best months to actually be in Bucharest are May–Jun · Sep–Oct — when those overlap, that's your window.
How far in advance should I book MAD → Bucharest?
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 6 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 Bucharest?
Yes — the current board includes nonstop fares (Wizz Air Malta). The outbound leg runs around 4 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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