Recife to Madrid flight

Flights from Recife to Madrid start at €670.38 and take 12h 7m at their fastest.

RecifeRecifeMadridMadrid
Plaza de Moncloa, Madrid, Spain

The Flights from Recife to Madrid starts at €670.38 and takes 12h 7m door to door, run by 1 operator over 6,454 km, with around 5 departures a day. Fares bottom out about 60 days before departure.

Checked September 10, 2026Priced for September 28, 2026One passenger, all fees included

  • 12h 7mDoor to door
  • 8h 57mMoving
  • €670.38From
  • 955.2 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€594.27
  1. TAP Portugal TA495807:308h 30m16:00Recife RECLisbon LIS
  2. Orbest O317217:101h 8m18:18Lisbon LISMadrid MAD

Changes at Lisbon, with 70 minutes between services and a walk of about 5 minutes.

Door to door 13h 58mCO2 1017.9 kgChanges 1Fixed, no changes

Fastest€629.08
  1. Iberia Airlines IA345206:528h 57m15:49Recife RECMadrid MAD

Door to door 12h 7mCO2 955.2 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
Iberia Airlines€614.9211h 42m740 km/hFixed fareNot published
  • Iberia Airlines

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 Recife to Madrid

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

  1. €643.2490 days
  2. €457.3960 days
  3. €521.1145 days
  4. €640.8830 days
  5. €653.8621 days
  6. €859.1814 days
  7. €1,125.277 days
  8. €1,258.023 days
  9. €1,581.931 days
Cheapest lead time
Fares bottom out around 60 days ahead, at €457.39.
How much it moves
The gap between the cheapest and most expensive lead time is 246 percent. The most expensive point is €1,581.93, 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. €823.78Sun
  2. €670.38Mon
  3. €715.22Tue
  4. €771.27Wed
  5. €859.18Thu
  6. €815.52Fri
  7. €859.18Sat
Terminals

Where you leave from and where you arrive

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

Recife

Air
  • REC

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 6,454 km against 6,266 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 Lisbon, Fortaleza, Salvador, Frankfurt am Main. The gap between arriving and leaving is 70 minutes, of which about 5 is walking.
If the connection is missed
The tightest connection we sell here has a 14 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 Recife at 06:52 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 Recife 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 Recife to Madrid take?

The Flight from Recife to Madrid takes 12h 7m door to door, of which 8h 57m is spent moving. The route runs 6,454 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 Recife to Madrid cost?

The Flight from Recife to Madrid starts at €670.38 for one passenger, checked on September 28, 2026. A typical fare is €647.37. 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 Recife to Madrid?

1 operators run the Flight from Recife to Madrid: Iberia Airlines. 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 Recife to Madrid use?

The Flight from Recife to Madrid leaves from Recife REC 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 Recife to Madrid?

Fares for the Flight from Recife to Madrid bottom out around 60 days ahead, at €457.39. The gap between the cheapest and most expensive lead time across the window is 246 percent, measured on September 28, 2026. Booking inside the final week has consistently cost more.

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

The Flight from Recife to Madrid produces about 955.2 kg of CO2 per passenger over 6454 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 Recife to Madrid on September 10, 2026: 6454 km of route against 6266 km in a straight line, 5 services a day, 1 operators, a cheapest fare of €670.38, and 12h 7m 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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