Route brief · VIE → MAD
Vienna → Madrid
$98
−11% vs typical
seasonal median $110 · difference $12
Oct 19 – Oct 22 · 3 nights
RyanairNonstop
- Usual monthly lows
- $109–$111
- Board rank
- Stronger than 24%
- Route sample
- 4 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 4 months, Oct is the cheapest for VIE → MAD. Best time to be there: Apr–Jun · Sep–Oct.
Fares bottom out in October around $98 and peak in December near $152 — a $54 spread across the 4 months we track. The cheapest itinerary we are tracking flies Ryanair nonstop and takes about 3 hours outbound, on a 3-night trip. At $98 for 1,809 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 Madrid, this fare ranks 2nd — 1.6× the $61 we hold from Rome. It is also the 2nd cheapest of the 10 routes of similar length we watch out of Vienna.
Cheapest day in the next 3 months: Oct 19 · $98 (55% below median)
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The median cached fare across this calendar is 4% higher than when tracking began on Aug 8 — $203 then versus $211 now, across 8 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 $84, on Oct 7.
September 2026
Cheapest in Oct · around $98
11% below the $110 typical fare
Cheapest round-trip fare found per month · Vienna → Madrid · cached-price history
Route facts
- Airports
- Schwechat (VIE) ↔ Barajas (MAD)
- Flight time
- ~3 hours outbound
- Distance
- ~1,809 km each way
- Typical price
- $110 round-trip (seasonal median)
- Airlines on the board
- Ryanair
- Itineraries
- Nonstop available
- Best months to visit
- Apr–Jun · Sep–Oct
VIE → MAD, answered.
Is $98 a good price for Vienna to Madrid?
Only slightly. The seasonal median is around $110 round-trip and this fare is 11% under it, about $12. 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 Vienna to Madrid?
Across 4 months of cached-fare history, Oct 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 VIE → 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 4 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 Madrid?
Yes — the current board includes nonstop fares (Ryanair). The outbound leg runs around 3 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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