Washington → Valencia flights

Most fares cluster at $360 — only occasional spikes to $472

Key takeaways

• $360 median fare, and it's also both the low and the bottom-quartile (p25) price — the dominant price point in this sample
• $472 high shows occasional spikes, pushing the overall spread to 31%
• 75% of observed fares sit at or near $360, suggesting $472 outliers are the exception, not the norm
• Sample size is just 9 daily snapshots — too thin to confidently map booking-window trends
• No single carrier distinguishable from this data, so no airline-specific pattern to report

30-day price trend

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The full picture

The data shows a route that mostly holds steady at $360, with p25 and p75 both landing on that same figure — meaning the bulk of the 9 snapshots we captured came in at or near the median. The $472 high is a real but infrequent outlier, and it's what drives the 31% spread. In practice, this looks less like a fare that fluctuates constantly and more like a stable baseline price occasionally interrupted by a pricier fare class or date.

With only 9 days of snapshots, we can't responsibly chart a booking-horizon curve — we don't have enough data points spread across weeks or months to say whether prices soften closer to departure or further out. What we can say is that if you're seeing something close to $360 when you check, that's consistent with the bulk of what we observed, and there's little evidence you're being shown an inflated fare. If you see something north of $400, it's worth checking alternate dates, since our data suggests that's on the higher end of this route's range.

We also don't have enough visibility into carrier mix to say whether one airline dominates this route or whether the $472 spikes correlate with a specific carrier, cabin class, or travel day. That's a real gap: day-of-week and carrier patterns are often where the more actionable booking advice lives, and this sample doesn't support those claims. Treat the $360 figure as a solid reference point for what a fair price looks like on this route, but given the small sample, don't read too much into the exact 31% spread — a larger window of snapshots could shift that number meaningfully in either direction.

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