Route brief · ROM → MAD
Rome → Madrid
$61
−19% vs typical
seasonal median $75 · difference $14
Nov 28 – Nov 30 · 2 nights
Wizz Air MaltaNonstop
- Usual monthly lows
- $73–$80
- Board rank
- Stronger than 52%
- Route sample
- 8 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 8 months, Nov is the cheapest for ROM → MAD. Best time to be there: Apr–Jun · Sep–Oct.
Fares bottom out in November around $61 and peak in March near $106 — a $45 spread across the 8 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 $61 for 1,364 km each way, that works out to about $22 per 1,000 km flown. That is well under the $41 that short-haul fares on this board typically run. Across the 10 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Madrid, this fare ranks 3rd — 1.6× the $37 we hold from Milan. That puts it in the cheaper half of the 13 routes of similar length we watch out of Rome, where the middle fare is $67.
Cheapest day in the next 3 months: Nov 28 · $64 (54% below median)
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The median cached fare across this calendar is 22% lower than when tracking began on Aug 8 — $163 then versus $127 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 $62, on Nov 28.
Cheapest in Nov · around $61
19% below the $75 typical fare
Cheapest round-trip fare found per month · Rome → Madrid · cached-price history
Route facts
- Airports
- Fiumicino (FCO) · Ciampino (CIA) ↔ Barajas (MAD)
- Flight time
- ~2.5 hours outbound
- Distance
- ~1,364 km each way
- Typical price
- $75 round-trip (seasonal median)
- Airlines on the board
- Wizz Air Malta
- Itineraries
- Nonstop available
- Best months to visit
- Apr–Jun · Sep–Oct
ROM → MAD, answered.
Is $61 a good price for Rome to Madrid?
Only slightly. The seasonal median is around $75 round-trip and this fare is 19% under it, about $14. 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 Rome to Madrid?
Across 8 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 ROM → 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 8 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 Rome to Madrid?
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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