Route brief · MAD → HOU
Madrid → Houston
$780
round-trip · too little price history on this route to compare
Oct 30 – Nov 6 · 7 nights
ITA Airways1 stop
Cached fare — the booking search re-prices live before you pay.
Destination briefHOUHoustonUnited’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)All routes into HoustonWhen this route gets cheap.
Best time to be in Houston: Mar–May · Oct–Nov. Fare history for this route is still thin, so we make no seasonal call yet.
The cheapest itinerary we are tracking makes one stop and takes about 15 hours outbound, on a 7-night trip — ticketed under ITA Airways, which on a connecting fare need not operate every leg. At $780 for 8,050 km each way, that works out to about $48 per 1,000 km flown. That is about the $44 typical of long-haul fares here. Across the 18 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Houston, this fare ranks 10th — 10% above the $708 from Rome. For context, the middle fare among the 29 routes of similar length we watch out of Madrid is $719. We have 3 months 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.
The 5 days we hold a cached fare for
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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.
Route facts
- Airports
- Barajas (MAD) ↔ Bush (IAH) · Hobby (HOU)
- Flight time
- ~15 hours outbound
- Distance
- ~8,050 km each way
- Airlines on the board
- ITA Airways
- Itineraries
- Connections on current fares
- Best months to visit
- Mar–May · Oct–Nov
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We do not publish a number for this, because we cannot measure it yet.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. See /guides/what-moves-a-flight-price/ for the levers we can measure.
Are there nonstop flights from Madrid to Houston?
The current cheapest fares involve a connection, ticketed under ITA Airways. 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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