Plaza de Moncloa, Madrid, Spain

Zagreb to Madrid

Compare trains, coaches, flights and ferries from Zagreb to Madrid. From £90.15, with the total price and every fee shown up front.

One passenger pays £90.15, every fee included. Services cover 1,735 km and are run by 3 operators across 1 mode.

Checked 6 October 2026Priced for 20 October 2026One passenger, all fees included

What one seat costs

Every operator we hold on this corridor starts at £90.15, so there is no spread to show.

Typical fares · Priced for 20 October 2026

£90.15

  • 155%Moves across the booking window

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Buying this journey

Pick a departure for Zagreb to Madrid and pay on tickets.orlero.com, our booking site.

The price is the one 12Go sets, with every fee shown before you pay.

Fares by date

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

Typical fares

  1. about £199.00Wed7
  2. about £264.50Thu8
  3. about £164.13Fri9
  4. about £168.84Sat10
  5. about £155.65Sun11
  6. about £160.84Mon12
  7. about £109.47Tue13
  8. about £120.79Wed14
  9. about £155.65Thu15
  10. about £150.00Fri16
  11. about £154.71Sat17
  12. about £153.76Sun18
  13. about £113.72Mon19
  14. about £90.15Tue20
  15. about £100.05Wed21
  16. about £123.61Thu22
  17. about £121.72Fri23
  18. about £121.72Sat24
  19. about £104.29Sun25
  20. about £105.23Mon26
  21. about £96.28Tue27

Based on what this route has cost recently. The live fare is confirmed when you book.

The coach gets you into Madrid. These two partners take it from there, and the bed is theirs to book.

A hotel room

A room in Madrid for the night the coach gets in

Sort by distance from Madrid Puerta de Atocha and you can see which places are ten minutes on foot and which are not.

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Booking window

When to book Zagreb to Madrid

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

  1. £77.9090 days
  2. £113.2560 days
  3. £90.1545 days
  4. £98.1730 days
  5. £96.2821 days
  6. £90.1514 days
  7. £109.477 days
  8. £164.133 days
  9. £199.001 days
Cheapest lead time
Fares bottom out around 90 days ahead, at £77.90.
How much it moves
The gap between the cheapest and dearest lead time is 155 percent. The dearest point is £199.00, 1 days out.
What that means
Today sits inside the cheap window, which closes about 90 days before departure. Waiting from here has usually cost money on this corridor rather than saved it.
£199.00£77.90137142130456090

Book now Fares on this route are lowest around 90 days ahead. You are inside that window.

This corridor, specifically

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

Clocks

Both ends keep the same time, so the arrival is the departure plus the journey.

The shape of it

1,735 km

1,701 km as the crow flies, 2% further by the route services take. The bearing runs west.

Who lives at each end

663,592 → 3,255,944

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

The route

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The journey

What the journey looks like

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

Direct or connecting
0% of the services we sell on this corridor run through without a change. The remaining 100% involve one connection.
How far it really runs
The route covers 1,735 km against 1,701 km in a straight line, a detour of 2 percent. Track and road geometry account for the difference.
Where the change is
Connections are made at Nice, Turin, Marseille. The gap between arriving and leaving is 49 minutes, of which about 14 is walking.
If the connection is missed
The tightest connection we sell here has a 19 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.

Madrid is large, and the road in from MAD can take longer than the last hour of the flight. Cars are not our business.

A taxi rank outside an airport terminal

A car waiting when you land in Madrid

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

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Who runs this route

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

Left luggage lockers

Left luggage near Madrid Puerta de Atocha

Most of the points near Madrid Puerta de Atocha open before the first train and shut after the last one.

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Questions about Zagreb to Madrid

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 Zagreb to Madrid?

Zagreb to Madrid covers 1,735 km. Each operator's own departure and arrival times for the date you pick are in the search at the top of this page, beside the total price.

How much does it cost to travel from Zagreb to Madrid?

The cheapest fare from Zagreb to Madrid is £90.15, as of 6 October 2026. A typical fare across the next three weeks is £143.40. 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 Zagreb to Madrid?

The cheapest way from Zagreb to Madrid is by coach, at £90.15 for one passenger on 20 October 2026. The comparison table on this page shows what each mode costs side by side.

When should I book Zagreb to Madrid?

Fares from Zagreb to Madrid bottom out around 90 days before departure, at £77.90. Across the whole booking window the gap between the cheapest and the dearest lead time is 155 percent, measured on 6 October 2026. Booking inside the last week has consistently cost more on this corridor.

Which day of the week is cheapest for Zagreb to Madrid?

Tuesday is the cheapest day to depart from Zagreb to Madrid, at £96.28. That is the median of 21 priced departure days across the next three weeks, as of 6 October 2026. Shifting a departure by one day is usually worth more than shifting the booking by one week.

Which month is cheapest for Zagreb to Madrid?

February is the cheapest of the next 6 months to travel from Zagreb to Madrid, at £72.25 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 Zagreb to Madrid?

3 operators sell services from Zagreb to Madrid across 1 mode: easyJet Europe, FlixBus, Ryanair. 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 Zagreb to Madrid?

0 percent of the services we sell from Zagreb to Madrid are direct. The rest connect at Nice, Turin, Marseille, with about 49 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 Zagreb to Madrid use?

Services from Zagreb to Madrid by coach leave from Zagreb Autobusni kolodvor and arrive at Adolfo Suárez Madrid-Barajas Airport MAD. Allow about 1h 57m 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 Zagreb to Madrid?

1 of the 3 operators we sell from Zagreb to Madrid allow a change or a refund. A change on a changeable fare costs £4.28. 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 names this operator on this pair, carried through unchanged.

Prices come from the supplier wherever we hold a live quote. Elsewhere we show an indicative price built from the real distance, the real operator and a fare curve over lead time, day of the week and season. Those are labelled Estimated fare and cannot be booked.

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

The coach is the simple part. What you do once you are in Madrid is somebody else's catalogue.

A guided tour group

Day trips out of Madrid and across Spain

Day trips that leave Madrid in the morning and cover a good part of Spain by evening.

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The two ends, compared

Zagreb reaches 93 places in 32 countries on services we hold, over distances from 49 to 9,343 km. Madrid reaches 190 places in 61 countries, from 68 to 14,616 km.

Other ways to make this journey

Leaving Zagreb

  • 93Places you can leave for
  • 32Countries
  • 14Operators

Arriving in Madrid

Leaving Madrid

  • 190Places you can leave for
  • 61Countries
  • 86Operators

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