Chengdu to Madrid flight

Flights from Chengdu to Madrid start at €918.18 and take 17h 17m at their fastest.

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Plaza de Moncloa, Madrid, Spain

The Flights from Chengdu to Madrid starts at €918.18 and takes 17h 17m door to door, run by 1 operator over 9,447 km, with around 5 departures a day. Fares bottom out about 60 days before departure.

Checked September 11, 2026Priced for September 28, 2026One passenger, all fees included

  • 17h 17mDoor to door
  • 14h 7mMoving
  • €918.18From
  • 1398.2 kgCO2
Real services

The cheapest and the fastest on September 28, 2026

Two journeys we can sell today, with the service number each operator files them under.

Cheapest€781.30
  1. Air China AC326207:3011h 45m19:15Chengdu CTUParis CDG
  2. Air France AF854020:111h 58m22:09Paris ORYMadrid MAD

Changes at Paris, with 56 minutes between services and a walk of about 5 minutes.

Door to door 17h 49mCO2 1527.6 kgChanges 1Fixed, no changes

Fastest€859.77
  1. Plus Ultra PU849206:0914h 7m20:16Chengdu CTUMadrid MAD

Door to door 17h 17mCO2 1398.2 kgChanges 0Fixed, no changes

Carriers

Airlines

Speed, flexibility and what is on board. Nothing here is a rating, because we have not earned one.

Every operator we sell on this corridor. Speed is the carrier's own typical cruising speed, not the average over this route.
OperatorFromFastestTypical speedFlexibilityOn board
Plus Ultra€859.7715h 31m740 km/hFixed fareNot published
  • Plus Ultra

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

A hotel room

Where to stay in Madrid

Hotels and apartments near downtown, most of them with free cancellation, on a map that shows what is walkable.

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Booking window

When to book Chengdu to Madrid

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

  1. €1,001.9690 days
  2. €586.0160 days
  3. €682.1845 days
  4. €760.6530 days
  5. €926.4421 days
  6. €1,018.4814 days
  7. €1,184.277 days
  8. €1,347.703 days
  9. €1,722.351 days
Cheapest lead time
Fares bottom out around 60 days ahead, at €586.01.
How much it moves
The gap between the cheapest and most expensive lead time is 194 percent. The most expensive point is €1,722.35, 1 days out.
What that means
Today sits inside the cheap window, which closes about 60 days before departure. Waiting from here has usually cost money on this corridor rather than saved it.
Day of the week

Which departure day costs least

Median cheapest fare for each weekday, taken across the next three weeks of real prices.

  1. €1,130.58Sun
  2. €1,084.56Mon
  3. €918.18Tue
  4. €1,119.37Wed
  5. €1,287.52Thu
  6. €1,018.48Fri
  7. €1,286.93Sat
Terminals

Where you leave from and where you arrive

The stations, airports and ports each mode on this corridor actually uses.

Chengdu

Air
  • TFU
  • CTU

Madrid

Air
  • MAD
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
20% of the services we sell on this corridor run through without a change. The remaining 80% involve one connection.
How far it really runs
The route covers 9,447 km against 9,172 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 Paris, Budapest, Moscow, Frankfurt am Main. The gap between arriving and leaving is 56 minutes, of which about 5 is walking.
If the connection is missed
The tightest connection we sell here has a 17 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.
First and last departure
The first service of the day leaves Chengdu at 06:09 and the last at 07:30, across 5 departures. The return direction keeps its own timetable, so the times back are not these times reversed.

Questions about Chengdu to Madrid

The questions people actually ask about this trip, 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 the Flight from Chengdu to Madrid take?

The Flight from Chengdu to Madrid takes 17h 17m door to door, of which 14h 7m is spent moving. The route runs 9,447 km. The difference between the two times is reaching the terminal and leaving it at the far end, which every time on this page includes.

How much does the Flight from Chengdu to Madrid cost?

The Flight from Chengdu to Madrid starts at €918.18 for one passenger, checked on September 28, 2026. A typical fare is €893.99. Both are the total including taxes, supplier fees and our service fee, so the price here is the price at checkout.

Who runs the Flight from Chengdu to Madrid?

1 operators run the Flight from Chengdu to Madrid: Plus Ultra. Between them they file around 5 departures a day. The operator table on this page compares them on fare, journey time, cruising speed, fare conditions and what is provided on board.

Which terminal does the Flight from Chengdu to Madrid use?

The Flight from Chengdu to Madrid leaves from Chengdu CTU and arrives at Madrid MAD. Allow about 3h 10m for reaching the departure terminal and leaving the arrival one. That time is already inside every door to door figure quoted on this page.

When should I book the Flight from Chengdu to Madrid?

Fares for the Flight from Chengdu to Madrid bottom out around 60 days ahead, at €586.01. The gap between the cheapest and most expensive lead time across the window is 194 percent, measured on September 28, 2026. Booking inside the final week has consistently cost more.

How much CO2 does the Flight from Chengdu to Madrid produce?

The Flight from Chengdu to Madrid produces about 1398.2 kg of CO2 per passenger over 9447 km, which works out at roughly 148 grams per passenger kilometer. That figure is for the whole journey and for one traveler, not for the vehicle.

Where these numbers come from

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

Schedules, seat counts and fares are generated by our own model until the supplier contracts are signed. Places, coordinates, operators, which operator serves which pair, and every distance are real. We would rather say that on every page than let a modeled number pass for a filed one.

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

On this page
Every figure above was computed for Chengdu to Madrid on September 11, 2026: 9447 km of route against 9172 km in a straight line, 5 services a day, 1 operators, a cheapest fare of €918.18, and 17h 17m door to door on the fastest mode. The return direction is computed separately and its numbers are not these numbers.

Related journeys

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 stand outside an airport terminal

Getting from MAD into Madrid?

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

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