Rare1 stop · 10.5h
WAS to LIMPeru
Lima
$347
usually $630
−45%
Most monthly lows $409–$630. Cheaper than every other month on record (3).
Flights · WAS → BCN
Washington to Barcelona
Best fare, round trip
$433
Too little price history on this route to compare — the fare is shown as found.
Found
- Depart
- Wed 28 Oct
- Return
- Fri 6 Nov
- Stay
- 9 nights
- Flight
- 1 stop · 9h
- Airline
TAP Air Portugal
Cached fare — the booking search re-prices live before you pay.
SpainBarcelonaGaudí’s fever dream with a beach attached. One of the cheapest big-city landings in Europe.Best windowMay–Jun · Sep–OctAirportsEl Prat (BCN)Every route into BarcelonaFare seasonality
When this route gets cheap.
The cheapest itinerary we are tracking makes one stop and takes about 9 hours outbound, on a 9-night trip — ticketed under TAP Air Portugal, which on a connecting fare need not operate every leg. At $433 for 6,490 km each way, that works out to about $33 per 1,000 km flown. That is below the $44 per 1,000 km typical of long-haul fares here. Across the 9 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Barcelona, this fare ranks 4th — 52% above the $285 from Abu Dhabi. That puts it in the cheaper half of the 28 routes of similar length we watch out of Washington, where the middle fare is $728. We have 1 month 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. Fare history here is still too short to name a cheap season. The best time to be in Barcelona: May–Jun · Sep–Oct.
The 2 days we hold a cached fare for
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The median cached fare across this calendar is 49% lower than when tracking began on 8 Aug — $747 then versus $380 now, across 16 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 $326, on 24 Oct.
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.
Cached fares · checked 13 Oct 2026
We are still collecting this route's months — 1 month of cached prices so far, too few to chart.
Route facts
- Airports
- Dulles (IAD) · Reagan National (DCA) · Baltimore (BWI) ↔ El Prat (BCN)
- Flight time
- ≈9 hours outbound
- Distance
- ≈6,490 km each way
- Airlines on the board
- TAP Air Portugal
- Itineraries
- Connections on current fares
- Best months to visit
- May–Jun · Sep–Oct
Good to know
WAS → BCN, answered.
How far in advance should I book WAS → 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. Our guide Why flight prices change covers the levers we can measure.
Are there nonstop flights from Washington to Barcelona?
The current cheapest fares involve a connection, ticketed under TAP Air Portugal. We hold no nonstop fare on this route right now, which does not mean none flies — search your exact dates to see what does.
Are these prices guaranteed?
No — these are cached fares found on real searches (this one on 17 October). 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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