Route brief · VIE → BCN
Vienna → Barcelona
$73
−23% vs typical
seasonal median $95 · difference $22
Oct 6 – Oct 8 · 2 nights
RyanairNonstop
- Usual monthly lows
- $78–$113
- Board rank
- Stronger than 63%
- Route sample
- 6 observed months
Cached fare — the booking search re-prices live before you pay.
Destination briefBCNBarcelonaGaudí’s fever dream with a beach attached. One of the cheapest big-city landings in Europe.Best windowMay–Jun · Sep–OctAirportsEl Prat (BCN)All routes into BarcelonaWhen this route gets cheap.
Cached-fare history: across 6 months, Oct is the cheapest for VIE → BCN. Best time to be there: May–Jun · Sep–Oct.
Fares bottom out in October around $73 and peak in April near $117 — a $44 spread across the 6 months we track. The cheapest itinerary we are tracking flies Ryanair nonstop and takes about 2.5 hours outbound, on a 2-night trip. At $73 for 1,350 km each way, that works out to about $27 per 1,000 km flown. That is well under the $41 that short-haul fares on this board typically run. Across the 8 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Barcelona, this fare ranks 6th — 1.9× the $39 we hold from London. It is also the cheapest of the 10 routes of similar length we watch out of Vienna.
Cheapest day in the next 3 months: Sep 16 · $90 (46% below median)
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The median cached fare across this calendar is 1% higher than when tracking began on Aug 8 — $164 then versus $165 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 $68, on Oct 31.
September 2026
October 2026
Cheapest in Oct · around $73
23% below the $95 typical fare
Cheapest round-trip fare found per month · Vienna → Barcelona · cached-price history
Route facts
- Airports
- Schwechat (VIE) ↔ El Prat (BCN)
- Flight time
- ~2.5 hours outbound
- Distance
- ~1,350 km each way
- Typical price
- $95 round-trip (seasonal median)
- Airlines on the board
- Ryanair
- Itineraries
- Nonstop available
- Best months to visit
- May–Jun · Sep–Oct
VIE → BCN, answered.
Is $73 a good price for Vienna to Barcelona?
Yes — the seasonal median for this route is around $95 round-trip. At $73 you're 23% below that, saving about $22, which we rate good for this route.
What is the cheapest month to fly from Vienna to Barcelona?
Across 6 months of cached-fare history, Oct comes out cheapest on this route. The best months to actually be in Barcelona are May–Jun · Sep–Oct — when those overlap, that's your window.
How far in advance should I book VIE → Barcelona?
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 6 months of cached fares, Oct comes out lowest on this route. See /guides/what-moves-a-flight-price/ for what does move a fare.
Are there nonstop flights from Vienna to Barcelona?
Yes — the current board includes nonstop fares (Ryanair). 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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