Route brief · MAD → SEL
Madrid → Seoul
$614
−16% vs typical
seasonal median $730 · difference $116
Nov 11 – Nov 17 · 6 nights
Sichuan Airlines1 stop
- Usual monthly lows
- $699–$769
- Board rank
- Stronger than 42%
- Route sample
- 9 observed months
Cached fare — the booking search re-prices live before you pay.
Destination briefSELSeoulPalaces wedged between skyscrapers, barbecue smoke at midnight, cafés that outnumber people.Best windowApr–May · Sep–OctAirportsIncheon (ICN) · Gimpo (GMP)All routes into SeoulWhen this route gets cheap.
Cached-fare history: across 9 months, Nov is the cheapest for MAD → SEL. Best time to be there: Apr–May · Sep–Oct.
Fares bottom out in November around $614 and peak in May near $792 — a $178 spread across the 9 months we track. The cheapest itinerary we are tracking makes one stop and takes about 15.5 hours outbound, on a 6-night trip — ticketed under Sichuan Airlines, which on a connecting fare need not operate every leg. At $614 for 9,995 km each way, that works out to about $31 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 Seoul, this fare ranks 12th — 27% above the $484 from Istanbul. That puts it in the cheaper half of the 34 routes of similar length we watch out of Madrid, where the middle fare is $729.
Day-level prices for the next 3 months
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The median cached fare across this calendar is unchanged since tracking began on Aug 8 — $770 then versus $771 now, across 7 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 $580, on Nov 17.
Cached day-level data for this route is sparse — 18 of 93 days priced, from 47 tracked fares. The days below are shown as found, with no cheapest-day or below-median call.
Cheapest in Nov · around $614
16% below the $730 typical fare
Cheapest round-trip fare found per month · Madrid → Seoul · cached-price history
Route facts
- Airports
- Barajas (MAD) ↔ Incheon (ICN) · Gimpo (GMP)
- Flight time
- ~15.5 hours outbound
- Distance
- ~9,995 km each way
- Typical price
- $730 round-trip (seasonal median)
- Airlines on the board
- Sichuan Airlines
- Itineraries
- Connections on current fares
- Best months to visit
- Apr–May · Sep–Oct
MAD → SEL, answered.
Is $614 a good price for Madrid to Seoul?
Only slightly. The seasonal median is around $730 round-trip and this fare is 16% under it, about $116. 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 Seoul?
Across 9 months of cached-fare history, Nov comes out cheapest on this route. The best months to actually be in Seoul are Apr–May · Sep–Oct — when those overlap, that's your window.
How far in advance should I book MAD → Seoul?
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 9 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 Seoul?
The current cheapest fares involve a connection, ticketed under Sichuan Airlines. 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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