Route brief · MAD → DXB
Madrid → Dubai
$265
−30% vs typical
seasonal median $380 · difference $115
Oct 21 – Oct 25 · 4 nights
Wizz Air Malta2 stops
- Usual monthly lows
- $360–$441
- Board rank
- Stronger than 78%
- Route sample
- 7 observed months
Cached fare — the booking search re-prices live before you pay.
Destination briefDXBDubaiFuture-city skyline, desert dunes, winter sun on tap — and Emirates sales twice a year.Best windowNov–MarAirportsDXB · Al Maktoum (DWC)All routes into DubaiWhen this route gets cheap.
Cached-fare history: across 7 months, Oct is the cheapest for MAD → DXB. Best time to be there: Nov–Mar.
Fares bottom out in October around $265 and peak in December near $459 — a $194 spread across the 7 months we track. The cheapest itinerary we are tracking makes 2 stops and takes about 10 hours outbound, on a 4-night trip — ticketed under Wizz Air Malta, which on a connecting fare need not operate every leg. At $265 for 5,656 km each way, that works out to about $23 per 1,000 km flown. That is well under the $39 that medium-haul fares on this board typically run. Across the 26 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Dubai, this fare ranks 10th — 30% above the $204 from Stockholm. It is also the cheapest of the 12 routes of similar length we watch out of Madrid.
Cheapest day in the next 3 months: Oct 6 · $378 (17% below median)
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The median cached fare across this calendar is 12% lower than when tracking began on Aug 8 — $495 then versus $437 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 $359, on Nov 25.
September 2026
October 2026
Cheapest in Oct · around $265
30% below the $380 typical fare
Cheapest round-trip fare found per month · Madrid → Dubai · cached-price history
Route facts
- Airports
- Barajas (MAD) ↔ DXB · Al Maktoum (DWC)
- Flight time
- ~10 hours outbound
- Distance
- ~5,656 km each way
- Typical price
- $380 round-trip (seasonal median)
- Airlines on the board
- Wizz Air Malta
- Itineraries
- Connections on current fares
- Best months to visit
- Nov–Mar
MAD → DXB, answered.
Is $265 a good price for Madrid to Dubai?
Yes — the seasonal median for this route is around $380 round-trip. At $265 you're 30% below that, saving about $115, which we rate great for this route.
What is the cheapest month to fly from Madrid to Dubai?
Across 7 months of cached-fare history, Oct comes out cheapest on this route. The best months to actually be in Dubai are Nov–Mar — when those overlap, that's your window.
How far in advance should I book MAD → Dubai?
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 7 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 Dubai?
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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