There are 11 ways to get from Arad to Madrid by train, plane, bus, train (TGV, Renfe, Ouigo), or car
Select an option below to see step-by-step directions and to compare ticket prices and travel times in Rome2Rio's travel planner.
Train to Oradea International Airport, fly
best- Take the train from Arad to Oradeatrain
- Fly from Oradea International Airport (OMR) to Adolfo Suárez Madrid–Barajas Airport (MAD)plane OMR - MAD
11h 29m€91–279Bus to Belgrade Nikola Tesla Airport, fly
cheapest- Take the bus from Arad to Belgrade bus stationbus
- Fly from Belgrade Nikola Tesla Airport (BEG) to Adolfo Suárez Madrid–Barajas Airport (MAD)plane BEG - MAD
10h 32m€72–243Bus, train
- Take the bus from Arad to Girona, Estació d'Autobusosbus
- Take the train from Girona to Madrid-Puerta de Atocha-Almudena Grandestrain Ave
30h 36m€178–286Train
- Take the train from Arad to Budapest-Keletitrain Ir
- Take the train from Budapest-Keleti to Wien Hbftrain Ec / ...
- Take the train from Wien HBF to Bruxelles-Miditrain Nj / ...
- Take the train from Bruxelles-Midi to Montpellier Sud-de-Francetrain Trn
- Take the train from Montpellier Sud De France to Barcelona-Santstrain Tgv
- Take the train from Barcelona-Sants to Madrid-Puerta de Atocha-Almudena Grandestrain Ave
37h 34m€570–972Drive 2,571.3 km
- Drive from Arad to Madridcar 2,571.3 km
28h 5m€420–606Fly from Arad
- Fly from Arad (ARW) to Adolfo Suárez Madrid–Barajas Airport (MAD)plane ARW - MAD
8h 13m€85–277Train to Timișoara Traian Vuia International Airport, fly
- Take the train from Arad to Timisoara Nordtrain
- Fly from Timișoara Traian Vuia International Airport (TSR) to Adolfo Suárez Madrid–Barajas Airport (MAD)plane TSR - MAD
9h 7m€98–259Train, train to Budapest Ferenc Liszt International Airport, fly
- Take the train from Arad to Szolnoktrain
- Take the train from Szolnok to Ferihegytrain
- Fly from Budapest Ferenc Liszt International Airport (BUD) to Adolfo Suárez Madrid–Barajas Airport (MAD)plane BUD - MAD
9h 42m€76–230Train, bus to Cluj-Napoca, fly
- Take the train from Arad to Alba Iuliatrain
- Take the bus from Alba Iulia to Cluj-Napocabus
- Fly from Cluj-Napoca (CLJ) to Adolfo Suárez Madrid–Barajas Airport (MAD)plane CLJ - MAD
11h 19m€92–305Bus
- Take the bus from Arad to Méndez Álvaro Estación Surbus
41h 37m€140–180Bus via Barcelona
- Take the bus from Arad to Barcelona, Estació d'Autobusos Nordbus 1922
- Take the bus from Barcelona, Estació d'Autobusos Nord to Madrid, Avenida de Américabus ALSA - Ba-Z-Ma
43h 30m€253–383
Arad to Madrid by train and foot
Comparing Your Travel Options
The cheapest way to get from Arad to Madrid is to train and fly which costs €75 - €230 and takes 9h 42m.
The fastest way to get from Arad to Madrid is to fly which takes 8h 13m and costs €85 - €280.
Yes, there is a direct bus departing from Arad and arriving at Méndez Álvaro Estación Sur. Services depart once a week, and operate Thursday. The journey takes approximately 41h 37m.
No, there is no direct train from Arad to Madrid. However, there are services departing from Arad and arriving at Madrid-Puerta de Atocha-Almudena Grandes via Budapest-Keleti, Wien HBF, Bruxelles-Midi, Montpellier Sud De France and Barcelona-Sants. The journey, including transfers, takes approximately 37h 34m.
The distance between Arad and Madrid is 2300 km. The road distance is 2571.3 km.
The best way to get from Arad to Madrid without a car is to bus and train which takes 30h 36m and costs €170 - €290.
It takes approximately 11h 29m to get from Arad to Madrid, including transfers.
Arad to Madrid bus services, operated by Tabita Tour, depart from Arad station.
Arad to Madrid train services, operated by Romanian Railways (CFR), depart from Arad station.
The best way to get from Arad to Madrid is to train which takes 37h 34m and costs €550 - €1000. Alternatively, you can fly, which costs €85 - €280 and takes 8h 13m, you could also bus, which costs €140 - €180 and takes 41h 37m.
What companies run services between Arad, Romania and Madrid, Spain?
You can take a train from Arad to Madrid-Puerta de Atocha-Almudena Grandes via Budapest-Keleti, Wien Hbf, Wien HBF, Bruxelles-Midi, Montpellier Sud De France, and Barcelona-Sants in around 37h 34m. Alternatively, HiSky, Ryanair, and two other airlines fly from Arad (ARW) to Adolfo Suárez Madrid–Barajas Airport (MAD) 3 times a week.
- Website
- ryanair.com
Flights from Oradea International Airport to Adolfo Suárez Madrid–Barajas Airport via Milan Bergamo
- Ave. Duration
- 7h
- When
- Tuesday
- Estimated price
- €80–290
Flights from Oradea International Airport to Adolfo Suárez Madrid–Barajas Airport via Bucharest Otopeni
- Ave. Duration
- 7h 30m
- When
- Tuesday
- Estimated price
- €95–310
Flights from Oradea International Airport to Adolfo Suárez Madrid–Barajas Airport via Bucharest Otopeni, Pisa
- Ave. Duration
- 10h 5m
- When
- Tuesday
- Estimated price
- €95–310
Flights from Arad to Adolfo Suárez Madrid–Barajas Airport via Bucharest Otopeni
- Ave. Duration
- 7h 40m
- When
- Tuesday
- Estimated price
- €80–270
Flights from Arad to Adolfo Suárez Madrid–Barajas Airport via Bucharest Otopeni, Pisa
- Ave. Duration
- 10h 15m
- When
- Tuesday
- Estimated price
- €80–270
Flights from Budapest Ferenc Liszt International Airport to Adolfo Suárez Madrid–Barajas Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 20m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €50–180
Flights from Budapest Ferenc Liszt International Airport to Adolfo Suárez Madrid–Barajas Airport via Milan Bergamo
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 40m
- When
- Friday
- Estimated price
- €50–180
Flights from Cluj-Napoca to Adolfo Suárez Madrid–Barajas Airport via Milan Bergamo
- Ave. Duration
- 7h 3m
- When
- Friday, Sunday, and Thursday
- Estimated price
- €65–260
- Website
- aireuropa.com
Flights from Oradea International Airport to Adolfo Suárez Madrid–Barajas Airport via Rome
- Ave. Duration
- 6h 30m
- When
- Monday and Friday
- Estimated price
- €100–380
Flights from Belgrade Nikola Tesla Airport to Adolfo Suárez Madrid–Barajas Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 30m
- When
- Wednesday, Sunday, Monday, Thursday, and Saturday
- Estimated price
- €80–200
Flights from Belgrade Nikola Tesla Airport to Adolfo Suárez Madrid–Barajas Airport via Barcelona
- Ave. Duration
- 6h 50m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday
- Estimated price
- €80–200
Flights from Belgrade Nikola Tesla Airport to Adolfo Suárez Madrid–Barajas Airport via Valencia
- Ave. Duration
- 7h 35m
- When
- Thursday
- Estimated price
- €80–200
- Website
- airserbia.com
Flights from Belgrade Nikola Tesla Airport to Adolfo Suárez Madrid–Barajas Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 30m
- When
- Wednesday, Sunday, Monday, Thursday, and Saturday
- Estimated price
- €80–200
Flights from Belgrade Nikola Tesla Airport to Adolfo Suárez Madrid–Barajas Airport via Barcelona
- Ave. Duration
- 6h 50m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday
- Estimated price
- €80–200
Flights from Belgrade Nikola Tesla Airport to Adolfo Suárez Madrid–Barajas Airport via Valencia
- Ave. Duration
- 7h 35m
- When
- Thursday
- Estimated price
- €80–200
Flights from Belgrade Nikola Tesla Airport to Adolfo Suárez Madrid–Barajas Airport via Palma Mallorca
- Ave. Duration
- 7h 45m
- When
- Tuesday and Friday
- Estimated price
- €80–200
- Website
- lufthansa.com
Flights from Oradea International Airport to Adolfo Suárez Madrid–Barajas Airport via Munich
- Ave. Duration
- 10h 15m
- When
- Tuesday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €110–500
Flights from Timișoara Traian Vuia International Airport to Adolfo Suárez Madrid–Barajas Airport via Munich
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 45m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €110–550
Flights from Budapest Ferenc Liszt International Airport to Adolfo Suárez Madrid–Barajas Airport via Munich
- Ave. Duration
- 6h 10m
- When
- Friday
- Estimated price
- €95–330
Flights from Cluj-Napoca to Adolfo Suárez Madrid–Barajas Airport via Munich
- Ave. Duration
- 6h
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €110–550
- Website
- iberia.com
Flights from Oradea International Airport to Adolfo Suárez Madrid–Barajas Airport via Bucharest Otopeni
- Ave. Duration
- 8h
- When
- Thursday
- Estimated price
- €110–400
Flights from Arad to Adolfo Suárez Madrid–Barajas Airport via Bucharest Otopeni
- Ave. Duration
- 10h
- When
- Thursday
- Estimated price
- €95–350
Flights from Budapest Ferenc Liszt International Airport to Adolfo Suárez Madrid–Barajas Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 20m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €60–270
- Website
- flyulendo.com
Flights from Oradea International Airport to Adolfo Suárez Madrid–Barajas Airport via Bucharest Otopeni, Pisa
- Ave. Duration
- 11h 15m
- When
- Monday and Friday
- Estimated price
- €75–310
Flights from Timișoara Traian Vuia International Airport to Adolfo Suárez Madrid–Barajas Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 40m
- When
- Tuesday and Saturday
- Estimated price
- €85–230
Flights from Cluj-Napoca to Adolfo Suárez Madrid–Barajas Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 50m
- When
- Monday, Wednesday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €60–250
- Website
- wizzair.com
Flights from Budapest Ferenc Liszt International Airport to Adolfo Suárez Madrid–Barajas Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 30m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €35–170
Flights from Belgrade Nikola Tesla Airport to Adolfo Suárez Madrid–Barajas Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 35m
- When
- Monday, Wednesday, and Friday
- Estimated price
- €45–200
- Website
- lufthansa-city.com
Flights from Timișoara Traian Vuia International Airport to Adolfo Suárez Madrid–Barajas Airport via Munich
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 45m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €110–550
- Phone
- 0219521
- Website
- Romanian Railways (CFR)
Train from Arad to Oradea
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 25m
- Frequency
- Every 4 hours
- Estimated price
- €11–12
- Website
- Romanian Railways (CFR)
Train from Arad to Budapest-Keleti
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 54m
- Frequency
- Every 2 hours
- Estimated price
- €20–22
- Website
- Romanian Railways (CFR)
Train from Arad to Timisoara Nord
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 52m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €6–8
- Website
- Romanian Railways (CFR)
Train from Arad to Szolnok
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 28m
- Frequency
- Every 2 hours
- Estimated price
- €13–15
- Website
- Romanian Railways (CFR)
Train from Arad to Alba Iulia
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 33m
- Frequency
- 4 times a day
- Estimated price
- €17–19
- Website
- Romanian Railways (CFR)
- Phone
- +34 91 232 03 20
- Website
- Renfe AVE
Train from Girona to Madrid-Puerta de Atocha-Almudena Grandes
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 8m
- Frequency
- Every 4 hours
- Estimated price
- €100–180
- Website
- Renfe AVE
Train from Barcelona-Sants to Madrid-Puerta de Atocha-Almudena Grandes
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 2m
- Frequency
- Every 30 minutes
- Estimated price
- €85–150
- Website
- Renfe AVE
- Phone
- +34 91 232 03 20
- Website
- Renfe Viajeros
Train from Girona to Madrid-Puerta de Atocha-Almudena Grandes
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 24m
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Estimated price
- €85–130
- Website
- Renfe Viajeros
Train from Barcelona-Sants to Madrid-Puerta de Atocha-Almudena Grandes
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 28m
- Frequency
- 4 times a day
- Estimated price
- €75–110
- Website
- Renfe Viajeros
- Phone
- +36 (1) 3 49 49 49
- [email protected]
- Website
- Hungarian Railways (MÁV)
Train from Budapest-Keleti to Wien Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 50m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €12–14
- Website
- Hungarian Railways (MÁV)
Train from Szolnok to Ferihegy
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 2m
- Frequency
- Every 20 minutes
- Estimated price
- €4–5
- Website
- Hungarian Railways (MÁV)
- Phone
- +32 70 79 79 79
- Website
- Belgian Railways
Train from Wien HBF to Bruxelles-Midi
- Ave. Duration
- 15h 19m
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Estimated price
- €220–340
- Website
- Belgian Railways
Train from Bruxelles-Midi to Montpellier Sud-de-France
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 37m
- Frequency
- 3 times a week
- Estimated price
- €180–290
- Website
- Belgian Railways
- Phone
- +33 1 84 94 36 35
- Website
- TGV inOui
Train from Montpellier Sud De France to Barcelona-Sants
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 16m
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Estimated price
- €70–110
- Website
- TGV inOui
- Phone
- +34 900 926 851
- [email protected]
- Website
- Iryo
Train from Barcelona-Sants to Madrid-Puerta de Atocha-Almudena Grandes
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 23m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €55–100
- Website
- Iryo
- Phone
- +34 900 759 781
- Website
- Ouigo
Train from Barcelona-Sants to Madrid-Puerta de Atocha-Almudena Grandes
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 32m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €45–80
- Website
- Ouigo
- Phone
- _AUSTRIAN_RAILWAYS_(ÖBB)
- Website
- Austrian Railways
Train from Szolnok to Ferihegy
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 29m
- Frequency
- 3 times a day
- Estimated price
- €16–28
- Website
- Austrian Railways
- Phone
- +40 730 250 062
- [email protected]
- Website
- mateiunitrans.ro
Bus from Arad to Girona, Estació d'Autobusos
- Ave. Duration
- 25h 28m
- Frequency
- Twice a week
- Estimated price
- €90–110
- Schedules at
- mateiunitrans.ro
- Phone
- +49 30 300 137 300
- [email protected]
- Website
- Flixbus
Bus from Arad to Belgrade bus station
- Ave. Duration
- 4h
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Estimated price
- €20–30
- Website
- Flixbus
Bus from Alba Iulia to Cluj-Napoca
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 25m
- Frequency
- 3 times a day
- Estimated price
- €9–14
- Website
- Flixbus
Bus from Arad to Barcelona, Estació d'Autobusos Nord
- Ave. Duration
- 34h 40m
- Frequency
- Twice a week
- Estimated price
- €200–300
- Website
- Flixbus
- Phone
- +4 0250 997
- Website
- normandiatransport.com
Bus from Alba Iulia to Cluj-Napoca
- Ave. Duration
- 2h
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Schedules at
- normandia.autogari.ro
- Phone
- +4-0263-21.55.00
- Website
- tabitatour.ro
Bus from Arad to Méndez Álvaro Estación Sur
- Ave. Duration
- 41h 37m
- Frequency
- Once a week
- Estimated price
- €140–180
- Schedules at
- tabitatour.ro
- Phone
- +34 910 207 007
- Website
- ALSA
Bus from Barcelona, Estació d'Autobusos Nord to Madrid, Avenida de América
- Ave. Duration
- 7h 50m
- Frequency
- Every 4 hours
- Estimated price
- €50–85
- Website
- ALSA
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Booking & Getting There
Arad to Madrid bus services, operated by Tabita Tour, arrive at Méndez Álvaro Estación Sur station.
Madrid is 1h behind Arad. It is currently 9:10 PM in Arad and 8:10 PM in Madrid.
Arad to Madrid train services, operated by Romanian Railways (CFR), arrive at Budapest-Keleti station.
Yes, the driving distance between Arad to Madrid is 2571 km. It takes approximately 28h 5m to drive from Arad to Madrid.
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