Route brief · MAD → ROM
Madrid → Rome
$76
−20% vs typical
seasonal median $95 · difference $19
Sep 14 – Sep 16 · 2 nights
Wizz Air MaltaNonstop
- Usual monthly lows
- $87–$114
- Board rank
- Stronger than 55%
- Route sample
- 5 observed months
Cached fare — the booking search re-prices live before you pay.
Destination briefROMRomeTwenty-eight centuries of showing off. Shoulder-season fares make the Colosseum a weekend idea.Best windowApr–Jun · Sep–OctAirportsFiumicino (FCO) · Ciampino (CIA)All routes into RomeWhen this route gets cheap.
Cached-fare history: across 5 months, Sep is the cheapest for MAD → ROM. Best time to be there: Apr–Jun · Sep–Oct.
Fares bottom out in September around $76 and peak in December near $142 — a $66 spread across the 5 months we track. The cheapest itinerary we are tracking flies Wizz Air Malta nonstop and takes about 2.5 hours outbound, on a 2-night trip. At $76 for 1,364 km each way, that works out to about $28 per 1,000 km flown. That is well under the $41 that short-haul fares on this board typically run. Across the 9 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Rome, this fare ranks 4th — 1.9× the $40 we hold from Brussels. That puts it in the cheaper half of the 8 routes of similar length we watch out of Madrid, where the middle fare is $76.
Cheapest day in the next 4 months: Sep 14 · $76 (45% below median)
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The median cached fare across this calendar is 20% higher than when tracking began on Aug 8 — $115 then versus $138 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 $66, on Oct 14.
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Cheapest in Sep · around $76
20% below the $95 typical fare
Cheapest round-trip fare found per month · Madrid → Rome · cached-price history
Route facts
- Airports
- Barajas (MAD) ↔ Fiumicino (FCO) · Ciampino (CIA)
- Flight time
- ~2.5 hours outbound
- Distance
- ~1,364 km each way
- Typical price
- $95 round-trip (seasonal median)
- Airlines on the board
- Wizz Air Malta
- Itineraries
- Nonstop available
- Best months to visit
- Apr–Jun · Sep–Oct
MAD → ROM, answered.
Is $76 a good price for Madrid to Rome?
Yes — the seasonal median for this route is around $95 round-trip. At $76 you're 20% below that, saving about $19, which we rate good for this route.
What is the cheapest month to fly from Madrid to Rome?
Across 5 months of cached-fare history, Sep comes out cheapest on this route. The best months to actually be in Rome are Apr–Jun · Sep–Oct — when those overlap, that's your window.
How far in advance should I book MAD → Rome?
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, Sep 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 Rome?
Yes — the current board includes nonstop fares (Wizz Air Malta). The outbound leg runs around 2.5 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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