Route brief · MAD → MUC
Madrid → Munich
$157
−30% vs typical
seasonal median $225 · difference $68
Oct 13 – Oct 27 · 14 nights
Wizz Air Malta1 stop
- Usual monthly lows
- $211–$226
- Board rank
- Stronger than 78%
- Route sample
- 4 observed months
Cached fare — the booking search re-prices live before you pay.
Destination briefMUCMunichBeer halls and baroque, with the Alps close enough to be a day trip and Oktoberfest pricing to match.Best windowMay–Jun · SepAirportsFranz Josef Strauss (MUC)All routes into MunichWhen this route gets cheap.
Cached-fare history: across 4 months, Oct is the cheapest for MAD → MUC. Best time to be there: May–Jun · Sep.
Fares bottom out in October around $157 and peak in December near $251 — a $94 spread across the 4 months we track. The cheapest itinerary we are tracking makes one stop and takes about 4 hours outbound, on a 14-night trip — ticketed under Wizz Air Malta, which on a connecting fare need not operate every leg. At $157 for 1,485 km each way, that works out to about $53 per 1,000 km flown. That is above the $41 typical of short-haul fares here. Across the 6 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Munich, this fare ranks 4th — 51% above the $104 from Dublin. For context, the middle fare among the 9 routes of similar length we watch out of Madrid is $118.
The 7 days we hold a cached fare for
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The median cached fare across this calendar is 5% lower than when tracking began on Aug 8 — $255 then versus $242 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 $183, on Sep 23.
- Wed, Sep 2$293
- Fri, Sep 4$230
- Sat, Sep 5$242
- Wed, Sep 23$183
- Wed, Oct 7$184
- Fri, Oct 9$314
- Sun, Oct 11$246
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.
Cheapest in Oct · around $157
30% below the $225 typical fare
Cheapest round-trip fare found per month · Madrid → Munich · cached-price history
Route facts
- Airports
- Barajas (MAD) ↔ Franz Josef Strauss (MUC)
- Flight time
- ~4 hours outbound
- Distance
- ~1,485 km each way
- Typical price
- $225 round-trip (seasonal median)
- Airlines on the board
- Wizz Air Malta
- Itineraries
- Connections on current fares
- Best months to visit
- May–Jun · Sep
MAD → MUC, answered.
Is $157 a good price for Madrid to Munich?
Yes — the seasonal median for this route is around $225 round-trip. At $157 you're 30% below that, saving about $68, which we rate great for this route.
What is the cheapest month to fly from Madrid to Munich?
Across 4 months of cached-fare history, Oct comes out cheapest on this route. The best months to actually be in Munich are May–Jun · Sep — when those overlap, that's your window.
How far in advance should I book MAD → Munich?
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 4 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 Munich?
The current cheapest fares involve a connection, ticketed under Wizz Air Malta. 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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