Route brief · MAD → PRG
Madrid → Prague
$118
−16% vs typical
seasonal median $140 · difference $22
Jan 6 '27 – Jan 16 '27 · 10 nights
RyanairNonstop
- Usual monthly lows
- $126–$153
- Board rank
- Stronger than 42%
- Route sample
- 5 observed months
Cached fare — the booking search re-prices live before you pay.
Destination briefPRGPragueA fairy-tale skyline priced like a spreadsheet error — Central Europe’s best value, full stop.Best windowApr–Jun · Sep–OctAirportsVáclav Havel (PRG)All routes into PragueWhen this route gets cheap.
Cached-fare history: across 5 months, Jan is the cheapest for MAD → PRG. Best time to be there: Apr–Jun · Sep–Oct.
Fares bottom out in January around $118 and peak in September near $167 — a $49 spread across the 5 months we track. The cheapest itinerary we are tracking flies Ryanair nonstop and takes about 3 hours outbound, on a 10-night trip. At $118 for 1,773 km each way, that works out to about $33 per 1,000 km flown. That is below the $41 typical of short-haul fares here. Across the 5 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Prague, this fare ranks 5th — 42% above the $83 from Barcelona. That puts it in the cheaper half of the 10 routes of similar length we watch out of Madrid, where the middle fare is $118.
Day-level prices for the next 3 months
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The median cached fare across this calendar is 13% lower than when tracking began on Aug 8 — $223 then versus $195 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 $83, on Sep 29.
Cached day-level data for this route is sparse — 15 of 101 days priced, from 38 tracked fares. The days below are shown as found, with no cheapest-day or below-median call.
Cheapest in Jan · around $118
16% below the $140 typical fare
Cheapest round-trip fare found per month · Madrid → Prague · cached-price history
Route facts
- Airports
- Barajas (MAD) ↔ Václav Havel (PRG)
- Flight time
- ~3 hours outbound
- Distance
- ~1,773 km each way
- Typical price
- $140 round-trip (seasonal median)
- Airlines on the board
- Ryanair
- Itineraries
- Nonstop available
- Best months to visit
- Apr–Jun · Sep–Oct
MAD → PRG, answered.
Is $118 a good price for Madrid to Prague?
Only slightly. The seasonal median is around $140 round-trip and this fare is 16% under it, about $22. 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 Prague?
Across 5 months of cached-fare history, Jan comes out cheapest on this route. The best months to actually be in Prague are Apr–Jun · Sep–Oct — when those overlap, that's your window.
How far in advance should I book MAD → Prague?
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, 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 Prague?
Yes — the current board includes nonstop fares (Ryanair). The outbound leg runs around 3 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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