Route brief · MAD → TYO
Madrid → Tokyo
$641
−15% vs typical
seasonal median $755 · difference $114
Feb 9 '27 – Feb 22 '27 · 13 nights
China Southern1 stop
- Usual monthly lows
- $710–$886
- Board rank
- Stronger than 38%
- Route sample
- 12 observed months
Cached fare — the booking search re-prices live before you pay.
Destination briefTYOTokyoNeon canyons, 3am ramen, and the world’s most polite chaos. The yen is kind to visitors right now.Best windowMar–May · Oct–NovAirportsNarita (NRT) · Haneda (HND)All routes into TokyoWhen this route gets cheap.
Cached-fare history: across 12 months, Feb is the cheapest for MAD → TYO. Best time to be there: Mar–May · Oct–Nov.
Fares bottom out in February around $641 and peak in August near $1,129 — a $488 spread across the 12 months we track. The cheapest itinerary we are tracking makes one stop and takes about 17 hours outbound, on a 13-night trip — ticketed under China Southern, which on a connecting fare need not operate every leg. At $641 for 10,762 km each way, that works out to about $30 per 1,000 km flown. That is well under the $44 that long-haul fares on this board typically run. Across the 31 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Tokyo, this fare ranks 7th — 48% above the $434 from New York. That puts it in the cheaper half of the 31 routes of similar length we watch out of Madrid, where the middle fare is $722.
Cheapest day in the next 3 months: Nov 30 · $750 (21% below median)
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The median cached fare across this calendar is 4% lower than when tracking began on Aug 8 — $963 then versus $923 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 $663, on Nov 26.
Cheapest in Feb · around $641
15% below the $755 typical fare
Cheapest round-trip fare found per month · Madrid → Tokyo · cached-price history
Route facts
- Airports
- Barajas (MAD) ↔ Narita (NRT) · Haneda (HND)
- Flight time
- ~17 hours outbound
- Distance
- ~10,762 km each way
- Typical price
- $755 round-trip (seasonal median)
- Airlines on the board
- China Southern
- Itineraries
- Connections on current fares
- Best months to visit
- Mar–May · Oct–Nov
MAD → TYO, answered.
Is $641 a good price for Madrid to Tokyo?
Only slightly. The seasonal median is around $755 round-trip and this fare is 15% under it, about $114. 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 Tokyo?
Across 12 months of cached-fare history, Feb comes out cheapest on this route. The best months to actually be in Tokyo are Mar–May · Oct–Nov — when those overlap, that's your window.
How far in advance should I book MAD → Tokyo?
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 12 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 Tokyo?
The current cheapest fares involve a connection, ticketed under China Southern. 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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