Route brief · MAD → LIM
Madrid → Lima
$806
−9% vs typical
seasonal median $885 · difference $79
Mar 25 '27 – Apr 8 '27 · 14 nights
Punta EuropaNonstop
- Usual monthly lows
- $829–$926
- Board rank
- Stronger than 17%
- Route sample
- 10 observed months
Cached fare — the booking search re-prices live before you pay.
Destination briefLIMLimaThe best restaurant city in South America, on a cliff above the Pacific — and the way to Cusco.Best windowDec–AprAirportsJorge Chávez (LIM)All routes into LimaWhen this route gets cheap.
Cached-fare history: across 10 months, Mar is the cheapest for MAD → LIM. Best time to be there: Dec–Apr.
Fares bottom out in March around $806 and peak in September near $1,072 — a $266 spread across the 10 months we track. The cheapest itinerary we are tracking flies Punta Europa nonstop and takes about 12 hours outbound, on a 14-night trip. At $806 for 9,509 km each way, that works out to about $42 per 1,000 km flown. That is about the $44 typical of long-haul fares here. Across the 17 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Lima, this fare ranks 3rd — 13% above the $714 from Copenhagen. For context, the middle fare among the 35 routes of similar length we watch out of Madrid is $722.
Cheapest day in the next 3 months: Nov 3 · $820 (20% below median)
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The median cached fare across this calendar is 5% higher than when tracking began on Aug 8 — $987 then versus $1,040 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 $807, on Nov 21.
September 2026
Cheapest in Mar · around $806
9% below the $885 typical fare
Cheapest round-trip fare found per month · Madrid → Lima · cached-price history
Route facts
- Airports
- Barajas (MAD) ↔ Jorge Chávez (LIM)
- Flight time
- ~12 hours outbound
- Distance
- ~9,509 km each way
- Typical price
- $885 round-trip (seasonal median)
- Airlines on the board
- Punta Europa
- Itineraries
- Nonstop available
- Best months to visit
- Dec–Apr
MAD → LIM, answered.
Is $806 a good price for Madrid to Lima?
Only slightly. The seasonal median is around $885 round-trip and this fare is 9% under it, about $79. 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 Lima?
Across 10 months of cached-fare history, Mar comes out cheapest on this route. The best months to actually be in Lima are Dec–Apr — when those overlap, that's your window.
How far in advance should I book MAD → Lima?
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 10 months of cached fares, Mar 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 Lima?
Yes — the current board includes nonstop fares (Punta Europa). The outbound leg runs around 12 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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