ExceptionalNonstop · 2h
MAD to RAKMorocco
Marrakech
$36
usually $95
−62%
Most monthly lows $58–$101. Cheaper than every other month on record (7).
Flights · MAD → HOU
Madrid to Houston
Best fare, round trip
$1,024
Too little price history on this route to compare — the fare is shown as found.
Found
- Depart
- Tue 29 Jun
- Return
- Thu 29 Jul
- Stay
- 30 nights
- Flight
- 2 stops · 13.5h
- Airline
TAP Air Portugal
Cached fare — the booking search re-prices live before you pay.
United StatesHoustonUnited’s Latin America gateway, the best Vietnamese food in the country, and NASA on the edge of town.Best windowMar–May · Oct–NovAirportsBush (IAH) · Hobby (HOU)Every route into HoustonFare seasonality
When this route gets cheap.
The cheapest itinerary we are tracking makes 2 stops and takes about 13.5 hours outbound, on a 30-night trip — ticketed under TAP Air Portugal, which on a connecting fare need not operate every leg. At $1,024 for 8,050 km each way, that works out to about $64 per 1,000 km flown. That is above the $44 per 1,000 km typical of long-haul fares here. Across the 18 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Houston, this fare ranks 16th — 60% above the $641 from Milan. For context, the middle fare among the 29 routes of similar length we watch out of Madrid is $673. We have 1 month of cached prices for this route so far — not enough to call a fare cheap or expensive, so we publish the price without a percentage. Fare history here is still too short to name a cheap season. The best time to be in Houston: Mar–May · Oct–Nov.
The one day we hold a cached fare for
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The median cached fare across this calendar is 13% lower than when tracking began on 21 Aug — $789 then versus $688 now, across 10 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 $659, on 25 Jan '27.
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.
Cached fares · checked 14 Oct 2026
We are still collecting this route's months — 1 month of cached prices so far, too few to chart.
Route facts
- Airports
- Barajas (MAD) ↔ Bush (IAH) · Hobby (HOU)
- Flight time
- ≈13.5 hours outbound
- Distance
- ≈8,050 km each way
- Airlines on the board
- TAP Air Portugal
- Itineraries
- Connections on current fares
- Best months to visit
- Mar–May · Oct–Nov
Good to know
MAD → HOU, answered.
How far in advance should I book MAD → Houston?
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. Our guide Why flight prices change covers the levers we can measure.
Are there nonstop flights from Madrid to Houston?
The current cheapest fares involve a connection, ticketed under TAP Air Portugal. We hold no nonstop fare on this route right now, which does not mean none flies — search your exact dates to see what does.
Are these prices guaranteed?
No — these are cached fares found on real searches (this one on 17 October). 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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