Cheap Flights from Dublin to Madeira

November is where the fare calendar bottoms out for this pair, so start there if your dates are loose. From September through to August the calendar covers a full year, which lets you trace the autumn shoulder, the festive stretch and the summer peak against each other before you commit. Midweek departures tend to price below weekend ones, and demand builds around Christmas and New Year and again once school holidays begin, so those weeks reward early booking. Outside the peaks, shifting your dates by a few weeks or a month often moves the total more than any other change you could make.

What you feel first is what the fare covers: Ryanair and Transavia France price the seat alone, so cabin and hold bags are add-ons, while KLM Cityhopper, Swiss, Eurowings, BA CityFlyer, Emerald Airlines, Cityjet, Helvetic Airways and Portug sell full-service tickets where a cabin bag comes as part of the deal. Direct flights run nonstop between the two airports, and the full-service itineraries on this route mostly involve a change, booked as one ticket so a delayed first leg becomes the airline's problem to fix. In practice, the low-cost fare often wins for hand-luggage-only trips, and the full-service option closes the gap once you add a bag.

Madeira Airport handles every arrival on the island through a single terminal, so there are no inter-terminal transfers and the walk from plane to exit stays short. The airport sits away from the island's main town, though — a drive along the coast rather than a stroll from baggage belt to hotel — so treat the landing as the start of a second journey. Buses and taxis are the usual ways onward, and a hire car is worth weighing because the towns spread out and public transport thins away from the main routes. The one thing to settle before you fly is the distance from the airport to your accommodation, since transfer times swing widely with where on the island you stay.

Currency

EUR (€)

Power sockets

Type C, F · 230 V

Language

Portuguese

Emergency number

112

Driving side

right

Calling code

+351

Internet domain

.pt

EU / Schengen

EU member, Schengen area

Population of Madeira

112 k (2023)

Time zone

UTC+01 (Europe/Lisbon)

Country facts: Wikidata

• Check what passport or ID documents Portugal asks of your nationality, and how long they need to stay valid.
• Confirm whether your ticket is direct or connecting, since journey time and rebooking protection differ.
• With Ryanair and Transavia France, price the cabin bag and any hold bag into the total before you compare.
• If two separate tickets are chained together, leave a wide buffer, as the second airline need not rebook you.
• Scan the price calendar from September to August, since November sits at the low point of the year.
• Settle the transfer from Madeira Airport to your accommodation early, because journey times vary with where on the island you stay.