Route brief · SEL → MAD
Seoul → Madrid
$566
round-trip · too little price history on this route to compare
Oct 15 – Oct 22 · 7 nights
Air China1 stop
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.
Best time to be in Madrid: Apr–Jun · Sep–Oct. Fare history for this route is still thin, so we make no seasonal call yet.
The cheapest itinerary we are tracking makes one stop and takes about 14.5 hours outbound, on a 7-night trip — ticketed under Air China, which on a connecting fare need not operate every leg. At $566 for 9,995 km each way, that works out to about $28 per 1,000 km flown. That is well under the $44 that long-haul fares on this board typically run. Across the 16 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Madrid, this fare ranks 6th — 31% above the $431 from Houston. That puts it in the cheaper half of the 46 routes of similar length we watch out of Seoul, where the middle fare is $762. We have 2 months of cached prices for this route so far — not enough to call a fare cheap or expensive, so we publish the price without a percentage.
The 2 days we hold a cached fare for
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The median cached fare across this calendar is 10% lower than when tracking began on Aug 8 — $829 then versus $747 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 $607, on Oct 24.
These are the only days we have a cached price for on this route so far — not the only days it flies. The search above covers any date.
Route facts
- Airports
- Incheon (ICN) · Gimpo (GMP) ↔ Barajas (MAD)
- Flight time
- ~14.5 hours outbound
- Distance
- ~9,995 km each way
- Airlines on the board
- Air China
- Itineraries
- Connections on current fares
- Best months to visit
- Apr–Jun · Sep–Oct
SEL → MAD, answered.
How far in advance should I book SEL → 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We do not publish a number for this, because we cannot measure it yet.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. See /guides/what-moves-a-flight-price/ for the levers we can measure.
Are there nonstop flights from Seoul to Madrid?
The current cheapest fares involve a connection, ticketed under Air China. 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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