Route brief · MAD → LIS
Madrid → Lisbon
$50
−38% vs typical
seasonal median $80 · difference $30
Oct 7 – Oct 8 · 1 night
RyanairNonstop
- Usual monthly lows
- $65–$87
- Board rank
- Stronger than 87%
- Route sample
- 9 observed months
Cached fare — the booking search re-prices live before you pay.
Destination briefLISLisbonTiled hills, custard tarts, Atlantic light — TAP’s hub wars keep this Europe’s cheapest gateway.Best windowMar–Jun · Sep–OctAirportsHumberto Delgado (LIS)All routes into LisbonWhen this route gets cheap.
Cached-fare history: across 9 months, Oct is the cheapest for MAD → LIS. Best time to be there: Mar–Jun · Sep–Oct.
Fares bottom out in October around $50 and peak in August near $116 — a $66 spread across the 9 months we track. The cheapest itinerary we are tracking flies Ryanair nonstop and takes about 1.5 hours outbound, on a 1-night trip. That puts it in the cheaper half of the 7 routes of similar length we watch out of Madrid, where the middle fare is $50.
Cheapest day in the next 4 months: Oct 7 · $50 (40% below median)
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The median cached fare across this calendar is unchanged since tracking began on Aug 8 — $80 then versus $80 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 $42, on Sep 9.
September 2026
Cheapest in Oct · around $50
38% below the $80 typical fare
Cheapest round-trip fare found per month · Madrid → Lisbon · cached-price history
Route facts
- Airports
- Barajas (MAD) ↔ Humberto Delgado (LIS)
- Flight time
- ~1.5 hours outbound
- Distance
- ~503 km each way
- Typical price
- $80 round-trip (seasonal median)
- Airlines on the board
- Ryanair
- Itineraries
- Nonstop available
- Best months to visit
- Mar–Jun · Sep–Oct
MAD → LIS, answered.
Is $50 a good price for Madrid to Lisbon?
Yes — the seasonal median for this route is around $80 round-trip. At $50 you're 38% below that, saving about $30, which we rate great for this route.
What is the cheapest month to fly from Madrid to Lisbon?
Across 9 months of cached-fare history, Oct comes out cheapest on this route. The best months to actually be in Lisbon are Mar–Jun · Sep–Oct — when those overlap, that's your window.
How far in advance should I book MAD → Lisbon?
We do not publish a number for this, because we cannot measure it yet.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 9 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 Lisbon?
Yes — the current board includes nonstop fares (Ryanair). The outbound leg runs around 1.5 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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