Route brief · NYC → MAD
New York → Madrid
$501
−13% vs typical
seasonal median $575 · difference $74
Nov 12 – Nov 16 · 4 nights
TAP Air Portugal1 stop
- Usual monthly lows
- $574–$648
- Board rank
- Stronger than 31%
- Route sample
- 7 observed months
Cached fare — the booking search re-prices live before you pay.
Destination briefMADMadridDinner at 10pm, museums at world-class density, and Iberia fare sales that border on typos.Best windowApr–Jun · Sep–OctAirportsBarajas (MAD)All routes into MadridWhen this route gets cheap.
Cached-fare history: across 7 months, Nov is the cheapest for NYC → MAD. Best time to be there: Apr–Jun · Sep–Oct.
Fares bottom out in November around $501 and peak in April near $681 — a $180 spread across the 7 months we track. The cheapest itinerary we are tracking makes one stop and takes about 8 hours outbound, on a 4-night trip — ticketed under TAP Air Portugal, which on a connecting fare need not operate every leg. At $501 for 5,768 km each way, that works out to about $43 per 1,000 km flown. That is about the $39 typical of medium-haul fares here. Across the 8 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Madrid, this fare ranks 6th — 1.7× the $295 we hold from Dubai. That puts it in the cheaper half of the 27 routes of similar length we watch out of New York, where the middle fare is $584.
Day-level prices for the next 3 months
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The median cached fare across this calendar is 11% lower than when tracking began on Aug 8 — $590 then versus $525 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 $308, on Sep 15.
Cached day-level data for this route is sparse — 18 of 101 days priced, from 40 tracked fares. The days below are shown as found, with no cheapest-day or below-median call.
Cheapest in Nov · around $501
13% below the $575 typical fare
Cheapest round-trip fare found per month · New York → Madrid · cached-price history
Route facts
- Airports
- JFK · Newark (EWR) · LaGuardia (LGA) ↔ Barajas (MAD)
- Flight time
- ~8 hours outbound
- Distance
- ~5,768 km each way
- Typical price
- $575 round-trip (seasonal median)
- Airlines on the board
- TAP Air Portugal
- Itineraries
- Connections on current fares
- Best months to visit
- Apr–Jun · Sep–Oct
NYC → MAD, answered.
Is $501 a good price for New York to Madrid?
Only slightly. The seasonal median is around $575 round-trip and this fare is 13% under it, about $74. 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 New York to Madrid?
Across 7 months of cached-fare history, Nov comes out cheapest on this route. The best months to actually be in Madrid are Apr–Jun · Sep–Oct — when those overlap, that's your window.
How far in advance should I book NYC → Madrid?
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, 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 New York to Madrid?
The current cheapest fares involve a connection, ticketed under TAP Air Portugal. 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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