Route brief · MAD → NCE
Madrid → Nice
$73
−42% vs typical
seasonal median $125 · difference $52
Nov 19 – Nov 22 · 3 nights
IberiaNonstop
- Usual monthly lows
- $101–$135
- Board rank
- Stronger than 91%
- Route sample
- 5 observed months
Cached fare — the booking search re-prices live before you pay.
Destination briefNCENiceThe Riviera’s front door — Monaco, Antibes and Cannes all on a local train that costs a few euros.Best windowMay–Jun · Sep–OctAirportsCôte d’Azur (NCE)All routes into NiceWhen this route gets cheap.
Cached-fare history: across 5 months, Nov is the cheapest for MAD → NCE. Best time to be there: May–Jun · Sep–Oct.
Fares bottom out in November around $73 and peak in July near $168 — a $95 spread across the 5 months we track. The cheapest itinerary we are tracking flies Iberia nonstop and takes about 2 hours outbound, on a 3-night trip. At $73 for 975 km each way, that works out to about $37 per 1,000 km flown. That is below the $41 typical of short-haul fares here. Across the 6 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Nice, this fare ranks 2nd — 55% above the $47 from London.
Day-level prices for the next 3 months
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The median cached fare across this calendar is 12% higher than when tracking began on Aug 8 — $155 then versus $173 now, across 4 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 $71, on Oct 2.
Cached day-level data for this route is sparse — 11 of 101 days priced, from 33 tracked fares. The days below are shown as found, with no cheapest-day or below-median call.
November 2026
Cheapest in Nov · around $73
42% below the $125 typical fare
Cheapest round-trip fare found per month · Madrid → Nice · cached-price history
Route facts
- Airports
- Barajas (MAD) ↔ Côte d’Azur (NCE)
- Flight time
- ~2 hours outbound
- Distance
- ~975 km each way
- Typical price
- $125 round-trip (seasonal median)
- Airlines on the board
- Iberia
- Itineraries
- Nonstop available
- Best months to visit
- May–Jun · Sep–Oct
MAD → NCE, answered.
Is $73 a good price for Madrid to Nice?
Yes — the seasonal median for this route is around $125 round-trip. At $73 you're 42% below that, saving about $52, which we rate rare for this route.
What is the cheapest month to fly from Madrid to Nice?
Across 5 months of cached-fare history, Nov comes out cheapest on this route. The best months to actually be in Nice are May–Jun · Sep–Oct — when those overlap, that's your window.
How far in advance should I book MAD → Nice?
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 5 months of cached fares, Nov 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 Nice?
Yes — the current board includes nonstop fares (Iberia). The outbound leg runs around 2 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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