Route brief · MAD → EDI
Madrid → Edinburgh
$96
−4% vs typical
seasonal median $100 · difference $4
Oct 2 – Oct 6 · 4 nights
Ryanair UK1 stop
- Usual monthly lows
- $97–$106
- Board rank
- Stronger than 4%
- Route sample
- 5 observed months
Cached fare — the booking search re-prices live before you pay.
Destination briefEDIEdinburghA volcanic crag with a castle on it, a medieval old town below, and the Highlands within a morning.Best windowMay–SepAirportsEdinburgh (EDI)All routes into EdinburghWhen this route gets cheap.
Cached-fare history: across 5 months, Oct is the cheapest for MAD → EDI. Best time to be there: May–Sep.
Fares bottom out in October around $96 and peak in February near $170 — a $74 spread across the 5 months we track. The cheapest itinerary we are tracking makes one stop and takes about 4 hours outbound, on a 4-night trip — ticketed under Ryanair UK, which on a connecting fare need not operate every leg. At $96 for 1,728 km each way, that works out to about $28 per 1,000 km flown. That is well under the $41 that short-haul fares on this board typically run. Across the 8 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Edinburgh, this fare ranks 3rd — 57% above the $61 from Barcelona. That puts it in the cheaper half of the 11 routes of similar length we watch out of Madrid, where the middle fare is $96.
The 5 days we hold a cached fare for
Tap a date → live search
The median cached fare across this calendar is 16% lower than when tracking began on Aug 8 — $116 then versus $97 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 $81, on Sep 22.
These are the only days we have a cached price for on this route so far — not the only days it flies. The search above covers any date.
Cheapest in Oct · around $96
4% below the $100 typical fare
Cheapest round-trip fare found per month · Madrid → Edinburgh · cached-price history
Route facts
- Airports
- Barajas (MAD) ↔ Edinburgh (EDI)
- Flight time
- ~4 hours outbound
- Distance
- ~1,728 km each way
- Typical price
- $100 round-trip (seasonal median)
- Airlines on the board
- Ryanair UK
- Itineraries
- Connections on current fares
- Best months to visit
- May–Sep
MAD → EDI, answered.
Is $96 a good price for Madrid to Edinburgh?
Only slightly. The seasonal median is around $100 round-trip and this fare is 4% under it, about $4. 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 Edinburgh?
Across 5 months of cached-fare history, Oct comes out cheapest on this route. The best months to actually be in Edinburgh are May–Sep — when those overlap, that's your window.
How far in advance should I book MAD → Edinburgh?
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, 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 Edinburgh?
The current cheapest fares involve a connection, ticketed under Ryanair UK. 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.
Next step
Sleeping in Edinburgh?
Lock the flight first — then compare stays for Oct 2 – Oct 6 · 4 nights.
Browse hotels ↗
Missed it?
Cached fares expire. This route has a feed of its own — follow it and the next MAD → EDI drop reaches you as soon as we find it.
Follow MAD → EDI