Route brief · MAD → KIX
Madrid → Osaka
$761
−19% vs typical
seasonal median $940 · difference $179
Jan 6 '27 – Jan 16 '27 · 10 nights
Air China1 stop
- Usual monthly lows
- $812–$1,121
- Board rank
- Stronger than 52%
- Route sample
- 6 observed months
Cached fare — the booking search re-prices live before you pay.
Destination briefKIXOsakaJapan with the volume up — street food, blunt humour, and Kyoto and Nara both under an hour by train.Best windowMar–May · Oct–NovAirportsKansai (KIX) · Itami (ITM)All routes into OsakaWhen this route gets cheap.
Cached-fare history: across 6 months, Jan is the cheapest for MAD → KIX. Best time to be there: Mar–May · Oct–Nov.
Fares bottom out in January around $761 and peak in August near $1,133 — a $372 spread across the 6 months we track. The cheapest itinerary we are tracking makes one stop and takes about 14 hours outbound, on a 10-night trip — ticketed under Air China, which on a connecting fare need not operate every leg. At $761 for 10,690 km each way, that works out to about $36 per 1,000 km flown. That is below the $44 typical of long-haul fares here. Across the 31 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Osaka, this fare ranks 7th — 53% above the $498 from San Francisco. For context, the middle fare among the 32 routes of similar length we watch out of Madrid is $734.
The 4 days we hold a cached fare for
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The median cached fare across this calendar is 3% higher than when tracking began on Aug 8 — $1,032 then versus $1,062 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 $832, on Sep 28.
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 Jan · around $761
19% below the $940 typical fare
Cheapest round-trip fare found per month · Madrid → Osaka · cached-price history
Route facts
- Airports
- Barajas (MAD) ↔ Kansai (KIX) · Itami (ITM)
- Flight time
- ~14 hours outbound
- Distance
- ~10,690 km each way
- Typical price
- $940 round-trip (seasonal median)
- Airlines on the board
- Air China
- Itineraries
- Connections on current fares
- Best months to visit
- Mar–May · Oct–Nov
MAD → KIX, answered.
Is $761 a good price for Madrid to Osaka?
Only slightly. The seasonal median is around $940 round-trip and this fare is 19% under it, about $179. 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 Osaka?
Across 6 months of cached-fare history, Jan comes out cheapest on this route. The best months to actually be in Osaka are Mar–May · Oct–Nov — when those overlap, that's your window.
How far in advance should I book MAD → Osaka?
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 6 months of cached fares, Jan 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 Osaka?
The current cheapest fares involve a connection, ticketed under Air China. 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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