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Cheap Flights from Madrid to California

Cheapest round-trip prices found by our users on KAYAK in the last 5 days
Los Angeles
Los Angeles1 stop$524
San Francisco
San Francisco1 stop$566
San Diego
San Diego2 stops$714
Sacramento
Sacramento2 stops$737
San Jose
San Jose1 stop$660
Reno
Reno2 stops$991
Los Angeles
Los Angeles1 stop$524
San Francisco
San Francisco1 stop$566
San Diego
San Diego2 stops$714
Sacramento
Sacramento2 stops$737
San Jose
San Jose1 stop$660
Reno
Reno2 stops$991
Booking Insights

KAYAK's insights & trends for Madrid to California flights

Get data-powered insights and trends into flights from Madrid to California to help you find the cheapest flights, the best time to fly and much more.

How much is a round-trip flight from Madrid to California?

Flight prices are below average for this route right now.

Flights to California from Madrid usually cost between $642 and $901 in November.
The lowest price found in the past 5 days was $524 on TAP AIR PORTUGAL (Nov 5-Nov 28).

What is the cheapest Madrid to California flight route?

The cheapest ticket to California from Madrid found in the last 5 days was to Los Angeles, at $773 round-trip. The most popular route is from Madrid (MAD) to Los Angeles (LAX), and the cheapest round-trip airline ticket found on this route in the last 5 days was $773.

What is the cheapest time of day to fly to California?

The cheapest time of day to fly to California is generally in the afternoon, when round-trip flights cost $1,020 on average. The most expensive time of day to fly to California is generally in the morning, which is peak travel time and where the average cost of a ticket is $1,078.

Can I save money by flying with a layover from Madrid to California?

No, with an average price for the route of $838, prices are generally cheapest when you fly direct.

What is the cheapest month to fly from Madrid to California?

The cheapest month for flights from Madrid to California is February, when tickets cost $576 (return) on average. On the other hand, the most expensive months are July and June, when the average cost of round-trip tickets is $984 and $959 respectively.

What’s the cheapest day of the week to fly from Madrid to California?

When flying from Madrid to California, you should consider leaving on a Wednesday and avoid Fridays if you are looking for the best rates. For your return to Madrid, you’ll find the best rates on Sundays and the most expensive ones on Saturdays.

How far in advance should I book a flight from Madrid to California?

To get a below average price on the flight from Madrid to California, you should book around 4 weeks before departure, which saves you about 39% compared to booking last minute. For the absolute cheapest price, our data suggests you should book 10 weeks before departure.

Good to know

Low season

February

Cheapest flight

$426
Best time to beat the crowds with an average 33% drop in price.
Most popular time to fly with an average 23% increase in price.
Flight from Madrid to San Jose

Flights from Madrid to California: the best tips from KAYAK users

Insights shared by verified travelers who flew the route from Madrid to California 
Verified travelerFlew with Iberia-Jun 2025
Arrive early to the airport, it takes a long time to check in and reach the boarding gates
Verified travelerFlew with British Airways-May 2024
Terminal 4 in Madrid is not well signed to tell where passengers need to go after each step. Planes are far from the Terminal. Baggage check in is slow.

FAQs - booking California flights

  • How does KAYAK find such low prices on flights from Madrid to California?

    KAYAK is a travel search engine. That means we look across the web to find the best prices we can find for our users. With over 2 billion flight queries processed yearly, we are able to display a variety of prices and options on flights from Madrid to California.

  • How does KAYAK's flight Price Forecast tool help me choose the right time to buy my flight ticket from Madrid to California?

    KAYAK’s flight Price Forecast tool uses historical data to determine whether the price for a flight from Madrid to California is likely to change within 7 days, so travelers know whether to wait or book now.

  • What is the Hacker Fare option on flights from Madrid to California?

    Hacker Fares allow you to combine one-way tickets in order to save you money over a traditional round-trip ticket. You could then fly from Madrid to California with an airline and back with another airline.

  • What is KAYAK's "flexible dates" feature and why should I care when looking for a flight from Madrid to California?

    Sometimes travel dates aren't set in stone. If your preferred travel dates have some wiggle room, flexible dates will show you all the options when flying from Madrid to California up to 3 days before/after your preferred dates. You can then pick the flights that suit you best.

  • How many flights are there between Madrid and California per day?

    There is a maximum of 1 nonstop flight a day that takes off from Madrid and lands in California, with an average flight time of 12h 45m. The most common departure time is 12:00 pm and most flights take off in the morning. Each week, there are 3 flights.

Reviews of the top 5 airlines serving from Madrid to California

 
Need help choosing which airline to fly with from Madrid to California? KAYAK airline reviews give an overall score for each airline based on loads of factors, including comfort, boarding, in-flight entertainment and more, to make your decision easier. See airline scores according to verified KAYAK customer reviews.
7.2
TAP AIR PORTUGALOverall score based on 2381 reviews
6.3Food
6.4Entertainment
7.2Comfort
7.1Boarding
7.8Crew
Airline reviews

I feel like the boarding process could be a little better. But the staff and everyone does a really great job.

10.0 ExcellentAnonymous, Oct 2026
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I feel like the boarding process could be a little better. But the staff and everyone does a really great job.

Flight was delayed more than 1.5 hours. Essentially no communication with passengers regarding how long the delay would last or any updates as to the delay.

Flight smooth and on-time. Food a joke, crew humorless but efficient. Really a budget airline masquerading as a flagship, but it gets you there.

Excellent! Flight left a bit late but overall a pleasant experience.

Business class seats aren't comfortable. Food was not good.

Kayak let me choose these flights on TAP but then after 2 months, cancelled my flights because they didn't think 90 minutes was enough time for the connection. I notice that neither flight was actually cancelled. Just my reservation. Why let me go through all of that effort to find the right flights for us, only to cancel it from underneath us 2 months later leaving us scrambling to find an alternative?

Delayed departure Madrid to Lisboa and my luggage no arrived

TAP boarding gate agents singled out Group A line to gate check all carry on bags …. Supposedly because of lack on bin space. BUT ALL OTHERS WERE PERMITTED WITH CARRY ON BAGS. Additionally so many passengers entering the plane after us were permitted carry on bags. And when the plane was fully loaded, there was a number of open spaces in the overhead bins. I WILL SEARCH OTHER OPTIONS BEFORE FLYING TAP AGAIN

The flight from MAD to LIS was absolutely horrible since they didn't allow me to board the flight I had paid for. It turns out TAP has a rule hidden deep in their terms of services that if I miss any of the flights in my multi-city plan they will automatically cancel all the remaining flights. I don't know if this is unique to TAP or common practice, but it seems quite ridiculous that I pay for a flight plan and due to unforeseen circumstances miss one leg of that plan that all remaining plan flights be terminated.

Great airline, new, comfortable and quiet planes. Plenty of leg room and state of the art entertainment system. The big downside is the connection in Lisbon. The airport is small and a bus is needed from the plane to the terminal. Is a mess, takes a lot of time, nobody gives an explanation, boarding zones are not honored, etc.

boarding sucked they lost my bag never flying Iberia again

Overall good, but it would be better more movies and tv shows options

I had the best flight crew I have ever experienced in all my years flying with AA. I would specially like to thank Till Tatum/96038 for her kindness professionalism and outstanding service! My son turned 8 years old one day before our flight and she went out of her way to make him feel so special. We will never forget this flight! The whole crew made a special card for Frankie’s bday and it really touched our hearts. He will never forget it and neither will we! Thank you with all our hearts! We hope to be on more flights with Till Tatum and this amazing crew.

The middles seats on the 777 airplane are very small. I am only five feet tall and my knees were touching the seat in front of me and the is no leg room if you have a person item under the seat. The food was horrible, spicy sauces, tasteless bread, and wilted/brown lettuce. Keep it simple. The staff was mediocre., one minute loud and chastising, and the other friendly. We liked how clear and easy to understand the entry process in to the US was.

Everything was fine except the end of the flight. We spent more than an hour circling around Miami due to weather conditions. That was not good.

I miss my flight and they could not rebook me that day because the other flight was full, and for the next day I had to pay a whole new fee again which I think is unprofessional

Flight was delayed bc of mechanical issue. New plane had different configuration so some seats had to be switched. They called all passengers who needed new boarding cards. They did not call us so we thought our seats were the same and fine. When we boarded they informed us our receipts had changed and we are now all sitting separate and in the back row. Both my daughters had meltdowns and started to cry and once we got on the flight, we figured out how we could sit closer to each other, but this was very upsetting.

Terrible. Extremely expensive. Monitor wasn’t working the whole flight 11 hrs and American didn’t offer anything. Change of seats, wifi etc. I’m expecting q compensation from the airline

I wish that we wouldn't have to go through TSA again on connecting flights.

My baggage went to Dallas and not to Philadelphia. Do I need to add anything else?

Over 3 hours and 25 mins delay, entertainment screen froze on me for more than half the flight

they couldn’t not serve coffee or tea as the water that was boarded was not potable. the veggie food was lousy. tasted very sweet. there was a crying kid a few rows ahead. what about the difficulty caused to other passengers because the kid was crying so much. parents should know their kids better and not travel. it was a very difficult situation. would not recommend this airline next time.

the internet connection was poor. and the change of time

Very cheap airline, not worth the price. And they almost lost my luggage at JFK during a direct flight. I can't believe I paid that much money for a horrible 'premium economy' flight. Just fly economy on the cheapest end; premium economy is no different. Very very poor.

Do Not Fly Iberia. Horrible experience. Iberia changes things at random -like the date of the flight and seat you have bought. After buying my flight, they contacted me and told me I had to return a day later. Then when I was boarding the flight, I discovered they had changed my window seat in a row away from the wing, to an aisle seat in front of the toilet! The worse seat on the plane. But it wasn’t just me- a family was scattered all over the plane. I was able to trade my seat because a father was separated from his son. Unfortunately the seat was the window seat directly over the wing, the loudest seat in the plane. I couldn’t sleep, even with noise cancelling earphones. Also, I ordered gluten free meal-which was tasteless and gave me cramps.

The flight was over two hours delayed. The aircraft was somewhat dated.

Food was low quality as well as quantity; I ordered vegetarian. We waited 35 MINUTES for the first bag to arrive after landing.

They offered several meals and snacks, the crew was very friendly and kind. There was a broad selection of movies, shows, and games. I was impressed!

Seats, comfort level ugh. Crew was not attentive, only to coach

The seats are just too tight. My husband's knees hit the front seat. Definitely need more room In economy.

The flight from FRA to SFO was uncomfortable. The crew allowed people to change seats after boarding finished, but then made some people move back to their seats but not others, which resulted in my wife and I having to sit in two middle seats for an 11 hour flight. The entertainment system was not working well throughout the flight, and stopped working completely around hour 8.

Inflight food quality is definitely declining. Only one hot food was served and rest of were boxed meals. That’s not how was done before. Better to fly Asia or Qatar carriers for better service.

Good service time. Not enough help meant service was slow. For a Business class seat the seat is very crampled and uncomfortable Too narrow, and where the platform for your feet meets the seat when fully lay flat position they do bot meet comfortably. Yes I expect more for a $5,000 plus seat and service. This is the worst business class seat I have ever been in.

The seats on Lufthansa’s international business class on the A350-900 is the worst product in the market. Our chief purser was AMAZING though. She is the best FA I have had in many years.

I have very bad experience with United because Vince two weeks that I did not receive my luggage yet

The United flight was excellent! The flight attendants were attentive and nice, and the food was very good! And the glasses are larger than on Lufthansa flights! I don’t want to have to ask for 15 glasses of water because their glasses are ridiculously small!

The plane was 3 hours late. What more can I say?!.. This, plus my horrendous experience of the second leg of my trip in where the plane had to be boarded (off and on) without escalators.. but not-covered outside regular steps…!! No… this is my last flight with Lufthansa!! Never again!

I was charged for one of my luggage twice, when I was not supposed to be charged for it

Several amenities included. Our bag was a little heavy so they checked it without charge. Earbuds were included. Entertainment selection was fantastic. Very pleasant and helpful travel and flight crew.

The flight from Houston to Frankfurt was atrocious. Our seats were in Coach; these rows provided no leg room, and if you needed to exit your row, you had to ask the passenger in front of you to straighten their seat, so you had a bit more room to go to the restroom. For our return flight, we decided to upgrade our seats. Lufthansa refused to give us credit for the seats we had already selected and paid for when we initially booked our flight ($60) and charged us $125 each to sit on a row with more leg room. In addition, we missed our Lufthansa connecting flight in Frankfurt because the flight from Houston left late. We walked the Frankfurt airport for hours, looking for someone to assist us. Terrible experience! Needless to say, we will never fly Lufthansa again.

This flight was OK, and about as good as a long-haul economy flight gets. The Good: * I was seated in a row with my family; * There was (just) enough space in the overhead bins for our luggage; * The cabin never got too hot; * The meal and beverage service was decent, and included all-metal cutlery; * The entertainment was good; * The cabin attendants were friendly and helpful. * Immigration control at JFK was a breeze -- all we had to do was get our photos taken, and we were through! Presumably this was because Madrid shared all our information with JFK in advance, but we were out of the airport within about 10 or 15 mins of getting off the plane, which is by far the fastest I have ever got out of JFK! The Bad: * We flew economy, so of course the seats were tiny and it was very cramped; * The seats were also hard -- I had a sore butt by the end, despite using the provided cushion; * The cabin got a bit too cold at one point (although I MUCH prefer this to cabins that are too hot), and Iberia also provided a blanket.

I slept through almost all of this short flight so didn’t experience this myself, but my daughter was appalled that a older passenger in the seat behind her put her naked and extremely scary feet on the back of her armrest.

Horrible as a connecting passenger. The airport experience is horrendous in Madrid. Once on the flight everything was fine. Stop selling connecting flights through Madrid with less than 2 hrs transit time!!

The flight from Dallas to madrid was delayed for 2 to 3 hours, the flight back from Dallas to Sacramento was fine , but there were 5 gate changes within the span of 2 hours, last one was in a differny terminal. Flight and crew was okay

Old plane, sold out on snacks, just trashy seats..broken..etc

I liked the movie selection and the speed getting the luggage. I did not like the fact that for premium they did not have a personal kit with toothpaste, I travel all the time in premium economy and bussiness and althought the kit might bot be the same at least you have the smalles kit in premium economy. I did not like either that because i was in the last row of premium economy nothing made it to my seat. They run out of the food I wanted ( it is a surprise because there were only 6-7 rows. They would run out of orange jouice were thy were passing water/orange juice around, they run out of some alcohol. I am undertand running out of it but I don’t understand why mot getting kore. The service I received in row 11 was different from the service in rows 7,8…. Also the screen on my tv was broken. It did not respond to touch. So, in conclusion, if I compare my flight going to Europe with an American airline plane in premium and the one with British, British expereince was significantly much worse. This company is declining fast.

Well unfortunately our connecting was cancelled and next flight delayed. Was in airport 9 hours. Flight itself was good. I’m sure it was a FAA problem.

I noticed the crew was so much nicer and friendlier. It would be nice if British Airways would serve soft drinks during the flight

Tv didn’t work till the last hour of the flight. Staff was rude and on a couple occasions was arguing with each other. Food was possible the worst I’ve had on a flight.

Coach seats are too tight. Seem designed for small people. Food different but OK. Staff helpful.

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