Route brief · ZRH → MAD
Zurich → Madrid
$160
−18% vs typical
seasonal median $195 · difference $35
Nov 30 – Dec 3 · 3 nights
Air EuropaNonstop
- Usual monthly lows
- $189–$215
- Board rank
- Stronger than 49%
- Route sample
- 5 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 5 months, Nov is the cheapest for ZRH → MAD. Best time to be there: Apr–Jun · Sep–Oct.
Fares bottom out in November around $160 and peak in December near $242 — a $82 spread across the 5 months we track. The cheapest itinerary we are tracking flies Air Europa nonstop and takes about 2.5 hours outbound, on a 3-night trip. At $160 for 1,247 km each way, that works out to about $64 per 1,000 km flown. That is above the $41 typical of short-haul fares here. Across the 10 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Madrid, this fare ranks 9th — 4.3× the $37 we hold from Milan. That puts it in the cheaper half of the 11 routes of similar length we watch out of Zurich, where the middle fare is $168.
Day-level prices for the next 3 months
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The median cached fare across this calendar is 2% higher than when tracking began on Aug 8 — $236 then versus $241 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 $138, on Aug 18.
Cached day-level data for this route is sparse — 16 of 101 days priced, from 35 tracked fares. The days below are shown as found, with no cheapest-day or below-median call.
November 2026
Cheapest in Nov · around $160
18% below the $195 typical fare
Cheapest round-trip fare found per month · Zurich → Madrid · cached-price history
Route facts
- Airports
- Zurich (ZRH) ↔ Barajas (MAD)
- Flight time
- ~2.5 hours outbound
- Distance
- ~1,247 km each way
- Typical price
- $195 round-trip (seasonal median)
- Airlines on the board
- Air Europa
- Itineraries
- Nonstop available
- Best months to visit
- Apr–Jun · Sep–Oct
ZRH → MAD, answered.
Is $160 a good price for Zurich to Madrid?
Only slightly. The seasonal median is around $195 round-trip and this fare is 18% under it, about $35. 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 Zurich to Madrid?
Across 5 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 ZRH → 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 5 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 Zurich to Madrid?
Yes — the current board includes nonstop fares (Air Europa). 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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