Route brief · MAD → MEX
Madrid → Mexico City
$776
−15% vs typical
seasonal median $915 · difference $139
May 1 '27 – May 14 '27 · 13 nights
Lufthansa2 stops
- Usual monthly lows
- $794–$999
- Board rank
- Stronger than 38%
- Route sample
- 8 observed months
Cached fare — the booking search re-prices live before you pay.
Destination briefMEXMexico CityAltitude, murals, and arguably the best food city in the hemisphere at street prices.Best windowMar–May · Oct–NovAirportsBenito Juárez (MEX) · Felipe Ángeles (NLU)All routes into Mexico CityWhen this route gets cheap.
Cached-fare history: across 8 months, May is the cheapest for MAD → MEX. Best time to be there: Mar–May · Oct–Nov.
Fares bottom out in May around $776 and peak in October near $1,052 — a $276 spread across the 8 months we track. The cheapest itinerary we are tracking makes 2 stops and takes about 16.5 hours outbound, on a 13-night trip — ticketed under Lufthansa, which on a connecting fare need not operate every leg. At $776 for 9,063 km each way, that works out to about $43 per 1,000 km flown. That is about the $44 typical of long-haul fares here. Across the 20 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Mexico City, this fare ranks 3rd — 37% above the $565 from São Paulo. For context, the middle fare among the 34 routes of similar length we watch out of Madrid is $722.
Day-level prices for the next 4 months
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The median cached fare across this calendar is 4% higher than when tracking began on Aug 8 — $1,003 then versus $1,042 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 $773, on Sep 2.
Cached day-level data for this route is sparse — 14 of 122 days priced, from 65 tracked fares. The days below are shown as found, with no cheapest-day or below-median call.
Cheapest in May · around $776
15% below the $915 typical fare
Cheapest round-trip fare found per month · Madrid → Mexico City · cached-price history
Route facts
- Airports
- Barajas (MAD) ↔ Benito Juárez (MEX) · Felipe Ángeles (NLU)
- Flight time
- ~16.5 hours outbound
- Distance
- ~9,063 km each way
- Typical price
- $915 round-trip (seasonal median)
- Airlines on the board
- Lufthansa
- Itineraries
- Connections on current fares
- Best months to visit
- Mar–May · Oct–Nov
MAD → MEX, answered.
Is $776 a good price for Madrid to Mexico City?
Only slightly. The seasonal median is around $915 round-trip and this fare is 15% under it, about $139. 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 Mexico City?
Across 8 months of cached-fare history, May comes out cheapest on this route. The best months to actually be in Mexico City are Mar–May · Oct–Nov — when those overlap, that's your window.
How far in advance should I book MAD → Mexico City?
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 8 months of cached fares, May 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 Mexico City?
The current cheapest fares involve a connection, ticketed under Lufthansa. 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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