Madang to Jayapura runs about 2 times a day, with the first departure around 06:01 and the last around 07:30. One passenger pays between €65.04 and €71.53, every fee included, depending on the operator and the way you travel. The fastest door to door is 4h 25m over 656 km, on services run by 1 operator across 1 mode.
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
€65.04 to €71.53
- 126%Moves across the booking window
When it runs, leaving Madang
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.
- 06:01First departure
- 07:30Last departure
- 2Services per day
- 50%Run direct
Fares by date
What this journey usually costs, by departure date. It shows which days run dearer.
Typical fares
- about €121.09Tue15
- about €131.71Wed16
- about €138.79Thu17
- about €105.75Fri18
- about €115.19Sat19
- about €121.68Sun20
- about €89.82Mon21
- about €84.51Tue22
- about €92.77Wed23
- about €98.08Thu24
- about €82.74Fri25
- about €104.57Sat26
- about €103.98Sun27
- about €71.53Mon28
- about €65.04Tue29
- about €69.76Wed30
- about €76.84Thu1
- about €84.51Fri2
- about €83.92Sat3
- about €69.76Sun4
- about €63.27Mon5
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 Jayapura. It does not get you a bed, and neither do we.
A room in Jayapura for the night the flight gets in
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When to book Madang to Jayapura
The same search run across the whole booking window, so the shape of the curve is visible rather than described.
- €76.8490 days
- €68.5860 days
- €66.8145 days
- €61.5030 days
- €63.2721 days
- €71.5314 days
- €89.827 days
- €138.793 days
- €121.091 days
- Cheapest lead time
- Fares bottom out around 30 days ahead, at €61.50.
- How much it moves
- The gap between the cheapest and most expensive lead time is 126 percent. The most expensive point is €138.79, 3 days out.
- What that means
- Today sits inside the cheap window, which closes about 30 days before departure. Waiting from here has usually cost money on this corridor rather than saved it.
Book now Fares on this route are lowest around 30 days ahead. You are inside that window.
This corridor, specifically
Facts that apply to Madang to Jayapura and to no other route on the site.
Clocks
1 hours behind on arrival. You land earlier than the journey suggests.
The shape of it
656 km
637 km as the crow flies, 3% further by the route services actually take. The bearing runs north-west.
Who lives at each end
27,419 → 410,852
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
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
- 50% of the services we sell on this corridor run through without a change. The remaining 50% involve one connection.
- How far it really runs
- The route covers 656 km against 637 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 Wewak. The gap between arriving and leaving is 60 minutes, of which about 5 is walking.
- If the connection is missed
- The tightest connection we sell here has a 16 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 VAI into Jayapura is the one price on this trip we cannot show you, because it is not ours.
A car waiting when you land in Jayapura
Settled in advance, so the ride into Jayapura costs what it said it would rather than what the cab stand says.
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Who runs this route
The flight gets in hours before any room is ready. Holding a bag is not what we sell.
Baggage storage near Abepura - Merpati
Most of the points near Abepura - Merpati open before the first train and close after the last one.
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Questions about Madang to Jayapura
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 it take to get from Madang to Jayapura?
The fastest journey from Madang to Jayapura takes 4h 25m door to door, of which 1h 16m is spent moving, on the flight. Most services take around 4h 28m, 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 Madang to Jayapura?
The cheapest fare from Madang to Jayapura is €63.27, as of September 14, 2026. A typical fare across the next three weeks is €89.82. 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 Madang to Jayapura?
The cheapest way from Madang to Jayapura is by flight, at €71.53 for one passenger on October 5, 2026. That journey takes 4h 26m 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 Madang to Jayapura?
Fares from Madang to Jayapura bottom out around 30 days before departure, at €61.50. Across the whole booking window the gap between the cheapest and the most expensive lead time is 126 percent, measured on September 14, 2026. Booking inside the last week has consistently cost more on this corridor.
Which day of the week is cheapest for Madang to Jayapura?
Monday is the cheapest day to depart from Madang to Jayapura, at €71.53. That is the median of 21 priced departure days across the next three weeks, as of September 14, 2026. Shifting a departure by one day is usually worth more than shifting the booking by one week.
Which month is cheapest for Madang to Jayapura?
February is the cheapest of the next 6 months to travel from Madang to Jayapura, at €50.29 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 service from Madang to Jayapura?
1 operators sell services from Madang to Jayapura across 1 mode: Air Niugini. 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 Madang to Jayapura?
50 percent of the services we sell from Madang to Jayapura are direct. The rest connect at Wewak, with about 60 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 Madang to Jayapura use?
Services from Madang to Jayapura by flight leave from Madang MAG and arrive at Jayapura VAI. 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 Madang to Jayapura?
0 of the 1 operators we sell from Madang to Jayapura 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 Madang to Jayapura on September 14, 2026: 656 km of route against 637 km in a straight line, 2 services a day, 1 operator a cheapest fare of €63.27, and 4h 25m 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 Jayapura a set of days out that do not start at a station. We do not sell those either.
Day trips out of Jayapura and across Indonesia
Day trips that leave Jayapura in the morning and cover a good part of Indonesia by evening.
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The two ends, compared
Madang reaches 5 places in 2 countries on services we hold, over distances from 186 to 637 km. Jayapura reaches 4 places in 2 countries, from 343 to 1,050 km.
Other ways to make this journey
Leaving Madang
- 5Places you can leave for
- 2Countries
- 2Operators
Arriving in Jayapura
Leaving Jayapura
- 4Places you can leave for
- 2Countries
- 2Operators