Community of Madrid · Spain
Madrid
Spring and autumn
Best season
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Budget
Why you'll love it
Madrid
Madrid eats late, walks everywhere and keeps its best rooms plain — vermouth taverns, cocido lunches, Chueca terraces and world-class museums a few streets apart.
- Best time to visit
- April to June and September to October are ideal; August is hot and half-empty, winter is perfect stew weather.
- Ideal trip length
- 3–4 days
- Getting around
- The centre is compact enough to walk. The metro is fast and cheap for longer hops, and Cercanías trains and buses reach day-trip towns.
- WalkMetroBusTaxiTrain
- Arriving
- Barajas Airport is 20 minutes from the centre by metro line 8 or the airport express bus; Atocha and Chamartín handle the fast trains.
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Highlights
Start here — the places we tell every friend heading your way.
