Route brief · MAD → RIO
Madrid → Rio de Janeiro
$824
−14% vs typical
seasonal median $960 · difference $136
Feb 26 '27 – Mar 26 '27 · 28 nights
IberiaNonstop
- Usual monthly lows
- $928–$1,049
- Board rank
- Stronger than 35%
- Route sample
- 7 observed months
Cached fare — the booking search re-prices live before you pay.
Destination briefRIORio de JaneiroBeaches with mountains growing out of them. Fares south swing hard — we catch the dips.Best windowApr–Jun · Sep–OctAirportsGaleão (GIG) · Santos Dumont (SDU)All routes into Rio de JaneiroWhen this route gets cheap.
Cached-fare history: across 7 months, Feb is the cheapest for MAD → RIO. Best time to be there: Apr–Jun · Sep–Oct.
Fares bottom out in February around $824 and peak in December near $1,171 — a $347 spread across the 7 months we track. The cheapest itinerary we are tracking flies Iberia nonstop and takes about 10.5 hours outbound, on a 28-night trip. At $824 for 8,140 km each way, that works out to about $51 per 1,000 km flown. That is above the $44 typical of long-haul fares here. Across the 26 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Rio de Janeiro, this fare ranks 10th — 1.9× the $439 we hold from Boston. For context, the middle fare among the 29 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 — $1,048 then versus $1,085 now, across 6 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 $776, on Sep 16.
Cached day-level data for this route is sparse — 16 of 122 days priced, from 52 tracked fares. The days below are shown as found, with no cheapest-day or below-median call.
Cheapest in Feb · around $824
14% below the $960 typical fare
Cheapest round-trip fare found per month · Madrid → Rio de Janeiro · cached-price history
Route facts
- Airports
- Barajas (MAD) ↔ Galeão (GIG) · Santos Dumont (SDU)
- Flight time
- ~10.5 hours outbound
- Distance
- ~8,140 km each way
- Typical price
- $960 round-trip (seasonal median)
- Airlines on the board
- Iberia
- Itineraries
- Nonstop available
- Best months to visit
- Apr–Jun · Sep–Oct
MAD → RIO, answered.
Is $824 a good price for Madrid to Rio de Janeiro?
Only slightly. The seasonal median is around $960 round-trip and this fare is 14% under it, about $136. 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 Rio de Janeiro?
Across 7 months of cached-fare history, Feb comes out cheapest on this route. The best months to actually be in Rio de Janeiro are Apr–Jun · Sep–Oct — when those overlap, that's your window.
How far in advance should I book MAD → Rio de Janeiro?
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 7 months of cached fares, Feb 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 Rio de Janeiro?
Yes — the current board includes nonstop fares (Iberia). The outbound leg runs around 10.5 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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