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Madrid to San Juan

Compare trains, coaches, flights and ferries from Madrid to San Juan. From €473.32, fastest 11h 54m, with the total price and every fee shown up front.

Madrid to San Juan runs about 6 times a day, with the first departure around 06:15 and the last around 14:28. One passenger pays between €473.32 and €649.73, every fee included, depending on the operator and the way you travel. The fastest door to door is 11h 54m over 6,565 km, on services run by 1 operator across 1 mode.

Checked 14 September 2026Priced for 5 October 2026One passenger, all fees included

What one seat costs

The spread between the cheapest and dearest typical fare on this corridor, across 1 operator and 1 way of making the journey. The operator sets the price on the day.

Typical fares

€473.32 to €649.73

  • 198%Moves across the booking window

When it runs, leaving Madrid

No operator has filed a timetable for this direction yet, so the first and last departure below follow the pattern of the corridor. Read them as the shape of the service day rather than as times to turn up for.

  • 06:15First departure
  • 14:28Last departure
  • 6Services per day
  • 33%Run direct

Fares by date

What this journey usually costs, by departure date. It shows which days run dearer.

Typical fares

  1. about €1,230.29Tue15
  2. about €1,162.44Wed16
  3. about €1,409.65Thu17
  4. about €954.76Fri18
  5. about €1,129.99Sat19
  6. about €1,004.32Sun20
  7. about €849.74Mon21
  8. about €694.57Tue22
  9. about €757.70Wed23
  10. about €873.93Thu24
  11. about €804.31Fri25
  12. about €859.77Sat26
  13. about €748.85Sun27
  14. about €649.73Mon28
  15. about €636.75Tue29
  16. about €638.52Wed30
  17. about €722.89Thu1
  18. about €664.48Fri2
  19. about €698.70Sat3
  20. about €613.15Sun4
  21. about €473.32Mon5

Based on what this route has cost recently. The operator sets the price on the day, and the live fare is confirmed when you book.

The flight gets you into San Juan. It does not get you a bed, and neither do we.

A hotel room

A room in San Juan for the night the flight gets in

Sort by distance from San Juan Railroad Terminal and you can see which places are ten minutes on foot and which are not.

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Booking window

When to book Madrid to San Juan

The same search run across the whole booking window, so the shape of the curve is visible rather than described.

  1. €624.9590 days
  2. €521.1160 days
  3. €558.2845 days
  4. €488.0730 days
  5. €473.3221 days
  6. €649.7314 days
  7. €849.747 days
  8. €1,409.653 days
  9. €1,230.291 days
Cheapest lead time
Fares bottom out around 21 days ahead, at €473.32.
How much it moves
The gap between the cheapest and dearest lead time is 198 percent. The dearest point is €1,409.65, 3 days out.
What that means
Today sits inside the cheap window, which closes about 21 days before departure. Waiting from here has usually cost money on this corridor rather than saved it.
€1,409.65€473.321371421304560

Book now Fares on this route are lowest around 21 days ahead. You are inside that window.

This corridor, specifically

Facts that apply to Madrid to San Juan and to no other route on the site.

Clocks

6 hours behind on arrival. You land earlier than the journey suggests.

The shape of it

6,565 km

6,374 km as the crow flies, 3% further by the route services actually take. The bearing runs west.

Who lives at each end

3,255,944418,140

Population at the departure city and at the arrival city, which is usually what decides how often anything runs.

How we know

Observed

Every operator on this corridor is named in a carrier record.

The route

MadridMadridSan JuanSan Juan
The journey

What the journey actually looks like

Direct or connecting, how far the route really runs, and what happens when a connection is missed.

Direct or connecting
33% of the services we sell on this corridor run through without a change. The remaining 67% involve one connection.
How far it really runs
The route covers 6,565 km against 6,374 km in a straight line, a detour of 3 percent. Track and road geometry account for the difference.
Where the change is
Connections are made at Santo Domingo, Caracas, La Romana, Punta Cana. The gap between arriving and leaving is 47 minutes, of which about 5 is walking.
If the connection is missed
The tightest connection we sell here has a 20 percent chance of not being made on the timetable alone. Part of this journey is a self transfer between separate tickets, so leave more time than the minimum and expect to check in again.

The fare from SJU into San Juan is the one price on this journey we cannot show you, because it is not ours.

A taxi rank outside an airport terminal

A car waiting when you land in San Juan

Settled in advance, so the ride into San Juan costs what it said it would rather than what the rank says.

Partner links. We do not operate transfers. We earn a commission on a booking, and the fare is the same as going direct.

Who runs this route

The flight gets in hours before any room is ready. Holding a bag is not what we sell.

Left luggage lockers

Left luggage near San Juan Railroad Terminal

Most of the points near San Juan Railroad Terminal open before the first train and shut after the last one.

Partner links. We do not run these networks. We earn a commission on a booking, and the price is the same as going direct.

Questions about Madrid to San Juan

The questions people actually ask about this journey, answered from the same prices and times the page above is built on rather than written once and left to go stale.

How long does it take to get from Madrid to San Juan?

The fastest journey from Madrid to San Juan takes 11h 54m door to door, of which 9h 12m is spent moving, on the flight. Most services take around 12h 34m, because that average includes slower stopping services and journeys with a connection. Times include reaching the terminal and leaving it at the far end.

How much does it cost to travel from Madrid to San Juan?

The cheapest fare from Madrid to San Juan is €473.32, as of 14 September 2026. A typical fare across the next three weeks is €842.37. Both figures are the total for one passenger, including taxes, supplier fees and our service fee, so nothing is added at checkout.

What is the cheapest way to get from Madrid to San Juan?

The cheapest way from Madrid to San Juan is by flight, at €649.73 for one passenger on 5 October 2026. That journey takes 12h 22m door to door. Cheaper is rarely faster on this corridor, and the comparison table on this page shows what each mode costs against what it saves.

When should I book Madrid to San Juan?

Fares from Madrid to San Juan bottom out around 21 days before departure, at €473.32. Across the whole booking window the gap between the cheapest and the dearest lead time is 198 percent, measured on 14 September 2026. Booking inside the last week has consistently cost more on this corridor.

Which day of the week is cheapest for Madrid to San Juan?

Monday is the cheapest day to depart from Madrid to San Juan, at €649.73. That is the median of 21 priced departure days across the next three weeks, as of 14 September 2026. Shifting a departure by one day is usually worth more than shifting the booking by one week.

Which month is cheapest for Madrid to San Juan?

February is the cheapest of the next 6 months to travel from Madrid to San Juan, at €458.57 for one passenger. Each month is priced on its fifteenth, so the comparison is like for like rather than a mix of weekends and midweek departures.

Who runs services from Madrid to San Juan?

1 operators sell services from Madrid to San Juan across 1 mode: Iberia Airlines. Journey times, fares and fare conditions differ between them, and the operator table on this page compares all of them on speed, flexibility and what is provided on board.

Is there a direct service from Madrid to San Juan?

33 percent of the services we sell from Madrid to San Juan are direct. The rest connect at Santo Domingo, Caracas, La Romana, Punta Cana, with about 47 minutes between the two services. Both legs are sold on one booking, so a missed connection is rebooked at no charge.

Which station or terminal do services from Madrid to San Juan use?

Services from Madrid to San Juan by flight leave from Madrid MAD and arrive at San Juan SJU. Allow about 3h 10m in total for reaching the departure terminal and leaving the arrival one, which is already included in every door to door time on this page.

Can I change or refund a ticket from Madrid to San Juan?

0 of the 1 operators we sell from Madrid to San Juan allow a change or a refund. A change on a changeable fare costs €5.00. The operator table on this page names which is which, and the condition is shown again before you pay.

Where these numbers come from

Places, coordinates, operators, which operator serves which pair, and every distance on this page are real and come from open data. Where a corridor has a filed timetable the departure times are real too, and ferry fares are the prices the operators publish themselves.

Observed service A carrier record shows this named operator serving this named pair, and we carry that through unchanged.

Where no operator publishes a fare for a corridor, the price here is our own estimate, worked out from the real distance and the real operator through a fare curve that follows lead time, day of the week and season. It tells you roughly what the journey costs. It is not a seat anyone has agreed to sell, and the payment step will not take it.

Defined in full at Door to door, Fares, The booking window, Carbon, Distances

On this page
Every figure above was computed for Madrid to San Juan on 14 September 2026: 6565 km of route against 6374 km in a straight line, 6 services a day, 1 operator a cheapest fare of €473.32, and 11h 54m door to door on the fastest mode. The return direction is computed separately and its numbers are not these numbers.

Being on the water gives San Juan a set of days out that do not start at a station. We do not sell those either.

A guided tour group

Day trips out of San Juan and across Puerto Rico

Day trips that leave San Juan in the morning and cover a good part of Puerto Rico by evening.

Partner links. We do not sell tours or tickets. We earn a commission on a booking, and it never changes the price.

The two ends, compared

Madrid reaches 252 places in 81 countries on services we hold, over distances from 162 to 10,762 km. San Juan reaches 44 places in 16 countries, from 125 to 7,368 km.

Other ways to make this journey

Leaving Madrid

  • 252Places you can leave for
  • 81Countries
  • 106Operators

Arriving in San Juan

Leaving San Juan

  • 44Places you can leave for
  • 16Countries
  • 24Operators

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