Route brief · MAD → CUN
Madrid → Cancún
$729
−10% vs typical
seasonal median $810 · difference $81
Nov 6 – Nov 16 · 10 nights
IberojetNonstop
- Usual monthly lows
- $770–$812
- Board rank
- Stronger than 20%
- Route sample
- 9 observed months
Cached fare — the booking search re-prices live before you pay.
Destination briefCUNCancúnCaribbean blue, Mayan ruins, cenotes — the highest deal-frequency beach route in the Americas.Best windowDec–AprAirportsCancún (CUN)All routes into CancúnWhen this route gets cheap.
Cached-fare history: across 9 months, Nov is the cheapest for MAD → CUN. Best time to be there: Dec–Apr.
Fares bottom out in November around $729 and peak in July near $932 — a $203 spread across the 9 months we track. The cheapest itinerary we are tracking flies Iberojet nonstop and takes about 11 hours outbound, on a 10-night trip. At $729 for 7,941 km each way, that works out to about $46 per 1,000 km flown. That is about the $44 typical of long-haul fares here. Across the 19 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Cancún, this fare ranks 8th — 33% above the $549 from São Paulo. For context, the middle fare among the 27 routes of similar length we watch out of Madrid is $722.
Day-level prices for the next 3 months
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The median cached fare across this calendar is 3% higher than when tracking began on Aug 8 — $792 then versus $818 now, across 5 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 $635, on Sep 2.
Cached day-level data for this route is sparse — 11 of 101 days priced, from 39 tracked fares. The days below are shown as found, with no cheapest-day or below-median call.
Cheapest in Nov · around $729
10% below the $810 typical fare
Cheapest round-trip fare found per month · Madrid → Cancún · cached-price history
Route facts
- Airports
- Barajas (MAD) ↔ Cancún (CUN)
- Flight time
- ~11 hours outbound
- Distance
- ~7,941 km each way
- Typical price
- $810 round-trip (seasonal median)
- Airlines on the board
- Iberojet
- Itineraries
- Nonstop available
- Best months to visit
- Dec–Apr
MAD → CUN, answered.
Is $729 a good price for Madrid to Cancún?
Only slightly. The seasonal median is around $810 round-trip and this fare is 10% under it, about $81. 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 Cancún?
Across 9 months of cached-fare history, Nov comes out cheapest on this route. The best months to actually be in Cancún are Dec–Apr — when those overlap, that's your window.
How far in advance should I book MAD → Cancún?
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 9 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 Madrid to Cancún?
Yes — the current board includes nonstop fares (Iberojet). The outbound leg runs around 11 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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