One passenger pays £256.90, every fee included. Services cover 3,858 km and are run by 1 operator across 1 mode.
What one seat costs
Every operator we hold on this corridor starts at £256.90, so there is no spread to show.
Typical fares · Priced for 20 October 2026
£256.90
- 144%Moves across the booking window
144%Fares by date
What this journey usually costs, by departure date. It shows which days run dearer.
Typical fares
- about £485.38Wed7
- about £617.81Thu8
- about £537.94Fri9
- about £565.74Sat10
- about £426.23Sun11
- about £358.50Mon12
- about £291.78Tue13
- about £397.43Wed14
- about £494.98Thu15
- about £384.79Fri16
- about £375.18Sat17
- about £363.05Sun18
- about £309.97Mon19
- about £256.90Tue20
- about £269.54Wed21
- about £353.45Thu22
- about £350.92Fri23
- about £345.87Sat24
- about £308.46Sun25
- about £273.59Mon26
- about £259.93Tue27
Based on what this route has cost recently. The live fare is confirmed when you book.
The flight gets you into Riyadh. These two partners take it from there, and the bed is theirs to book.
A room in Riyadh for the night the flight gets in
Sort by distance from Riyadh railway station and you can see which places are ten minutes on foot and which are not.
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When to book Chennai to Riyadh
The same search run across the whole booking window, so the shape of the curve is visible rather than described.
- £220.5090 days
- £344.3560 days
- £246.2945 days
- £312.0030 days
- £259.9321 days
- £256.9014 days
- £291.787 days
- £537.943 days
- £485.381 days
- Cheapest lead time
- Fares bottom out around 90 days ahead, at £220.50.
- How much it moves
- The gap between the cheapest and dearest lead time is 144 percent. The dearest point is £537.94, 3 days out.
- What that means
- Today sits inside the cheap window, which closes about 90 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 90 days ahead. You are inside that window.
This corridor, specifically
Facts that apply to Chennai to Riyadh and to no other route on the site.
Clocks
2.5 hours behind on arrival. You land earlier than the journey suggests.
The shape of it
3,858 km
3,746 km as the crow flies, 3% further by the route services take. The bearing runs north-west.
Who lives at each end
4,681,087 → 4,205,961
Population at the departure city and at the arrival city, which is usually what decides how often anything runs.
The route
What the journey looks like
Direct or connecting, how far the route really runs, and what happens when a connection is missed.
- Direct or connecting
- 25% of the services we sell on this corridor run through without a change. The remaining 75% involve one connection.
- How far it really runs
- The route covers 3,858 km against 3,746 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 Kozhikode, Abu Dhabi, Muscat. The gap between arriving and leaving is 49 minutes, of which about 5 is walking.
- If the connection is missed
- The tightest connection we sell here has a 19 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.
Riyadh is large, and the road in from RUH can take longer than the last hour of the flight. Cars are not our business.
A car waiting when you land in Riyadh
Settled in advance, so the ride into Riyadh costs what it said it would rather than what the rank says.
Book a transfer from RUH with Welcome PickupsOr check Daytrip
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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.
Left luggage near Riyadh railway station
Most of the points near Riyadh railway station open before the first train and shut after the last one.
Check Riyadh on StasherOr try Bounce
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Questions about Chennai to Riyadh
The questions people actually ask about this journey, 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 Chennai to Riyadh?
Chennai to Riyadh covers 3,858 km. Each operator's own departure and arrival times for the date you pick are in the search at the top of this page, beside the total price.
How much does it cost to travel from Chennai to Riyadh?
The cheapest fare from Chennai to Riyadh is £256.90, as of 6 October 2026. A typical fare across the next three weeks is £397.43. 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 Chennai to Riyadh?
The cheapest way from Chennai to Riyadh is by flight, at £256.90 for one passenger on 20 October 2026. The comparison table on this page shows what each mode costs side by side.
When should I book Chennai to Riyadh?
Fares from Chennai to Riyadh bottom out around 90 days before departure, at £220.50. Across the whole booking window the gap between the cheapest and the dearest lead time is 144 percent, measured on 6 October 2026. Booking inside the last week has consistently cost more on this corridor.
Which day of the week is cheapest for Chennai to Riyadh?
Tuesday is the cheapest day to depart from Chennai to Riyadh, at £259.93. That is the median of 21 priced departure days across the next three weeks, as of 6 October 2026. Shifting a departure by one day is usually worth more than shifting the booking by one week.
Which month is cheapest for Chennai to Riyadh?
February is the cheapest of the next 6 months to travel from Chennai to Riyadh, at £202.31 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 services from Chennai to Riyadh?
1 operators sell services from Chennai to Riyadh across 1 mode: Saudia. 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 Chennai to Riyadh?
25 percent of the services we sell from Chennai to Riyadh are direct. The rest connect at Kozhikode, Abu Dhabi, Muscat, with about 49 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 Chennai to Riyadh use?
Services from Chennai to Riyadh by flight leave from Chennai International Airport MAA and arrive at King Khalid International Airport RUH. 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 Chennai to Riyadh?
0 of the 1 operators we sell from Chennai to Riyadh allow a change or a refund. A change on a changeable fare costs £4.28. 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 names this operator on this pair, carried through unchanged.
Prices come from the supplier wherever we hold a live quote. Elsewhere we show an indicative price built from the real distance, the real operator and a fare curve over lead time, day of the week and season. Those are labelled Estimated fare and cannot be booked.
Defined in full at Door to door, Fares, The booking window, Carbon, Distances
The flight is the simple part. What you do once you are in Riyadh is somebody else's catalogue.
Day trips out of Riyadh and across Saudi Arabia
Day trips that leave Riyadh in the morning and cover a good part of Saudi Arabia by evening.
See Riyadh on GetYourGuideOr browse Viator
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The two ends, compared
Chennai reaches 208 places in 26 countries on services we hold, over distances from 24 to 15,074 km. Riyadh reaches 53 places in 23 countries, from 86 to 13,873 km.
Other ways to make this journey
Leaving Chennai
- 208Places you can leave for
- 26Countries
- 32Operators
26
32Arriving in Riyadh
Leaving Riyadh
- 53Places you can leave for
- 23Countries
- 40Operators