Sanaa to Addis Ababa

Compare trains, coaches, flights and ferries from Sanaa to Addis Ababa. From €86.28, fastest 4h 47m, with the total price and every fee shown up front.

Sanaa to Addis Ababa runs about 3 times a day, with the first departure around 06:12 and the last around 07:30. One passenger pays between €86.28 and €101.62, every fee included, depending on the operator and the way you travel. The fastest door to door is 4h 47m over 948 km, on services run by 1 operator across 1 mode.

Checked 13 September 2026Priced for 28 September 2026One passenger, all fees included

What one seat costs

The spread between the cheapest and dearest typical fare on this corridor, across 1 operator and 1 way of making the journey. The operator sets the price on the day.

Typical fares

€86.28 to €101.62

  • 172%Moves across the booking window

When it runs, leaving Sanaa

No operator has filed a timetable for this direction yet, so the first and last departure below follow the pattern of the corridor. Read them as the shape of the service day rather than as times to turn up for.

  • 06:12First departure
  • 07:30Last departure
  • 3Services per day
  • 33%Run direct

Fares by date

What this journey usually costs, by departure date. It shows which days run dearer.

Typical fares

  1. about €170.65Mon14
  2. about €184.81Tue15
  3. about €218.44Wed16
  4. about €154.72Thu17
  5. about €147.05Fri18
  6. about €168.29Sat19
  7. about €177.14Sun20
  8. about €113.42Mon21
  9. about €120.50Tue22
  10. about €101.62Wed23
  11. about €174.19Thu24
  12. about €162.39Fri25
  13. about €163.57Sat26
  14. about €146.46Sun27
  15. about €86.28Mon28
  16. about €98.67Tue29
  17. about €115.78Wed30
  18. about €132.89Thu1
  19. about €108.11Fri2
  20. about €120.50Sat3
  21. about €95.13Sun4

Based on what this route has cost recently. The operator sets the price on the day, and the live fare is confirmed when you book.

The flight gets you into Addis Ababa. It does not get you a bed, and neither do we.

A hotel room

A room in Addis Ababa for the night the flight gets in

Sort by distance from Addis Abeba train station and you can see which places are ten minutes on foot and which are not.

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Booking window

When to book Sanaa to Addis Ababa

The same search run across the whole booking window, so the shape of the curve is visible rather than described.

  1. €136.4390 days
  2. €91.0060 days
  3. €80.3845 days
  4. €83.9230 days
  5. €95.1321 days
  6. €146.4614 days
  7. €177.147 days
  8. €218.443 days
  9. €170.651 days
Cheapest lead time
Fares bottom out around 45 days ahead, at €80.38.
How much it moves
The gap between the cheapest and dearest lead time is 172 percent. The dearest point is €218.44, 3 days out.
What that means
Today sits inside the cheap window, which closes about 45 days before departure. Waiting from here has usually cost money on this corridor rather than saved it.
€218.44€80.381371421304560

Book now Fares on this route are lowest around 45 days ahead. You are inside that window.

This corridor, specifically

Facts that apply to Sanaa to Addis Ababa and to no other route on the site.

Clocks

Both ends keep the same time, so the arrival is the departure plus the journey.

The shape of it

948 km

920 km as the crow flies, 3% further by the route services actually take. The bearing runs south-west.

Who lives at each end

1,937,4513,860,000

Population at the departure city and at the arrival city, which is usually what decides how often anything runs.

How we know

Observed

Every operator on this corridor is named in a carrier record.

The route

SanaaSanaaAddis AbabaAddis Ababa
The journey

What the journey actually looks like

Direct or connecting, how far the route really runs, and what happens when a connection is missed.

Direct or connecting
33% of the services we sell on this corridor run through without a change. The remaining 67% involve one connection.
How far it really runs
The route covers 948 km against 920 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 Djibouti, Asmara. The gap between arriving and leaving is 71 minutes, of which about 14 is walking.
If the connection is missed
The tightest connection we sell here has a 13 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.

Addis Ababa is large, and the road in from ADD can take longer than the last hour of the flight. Cars are not our business.

A taxi rank outside an airport terminal

A car waiting when you land in Addis Ababa

Settled in advance, so the ride into Addis Ababa costs what it said it would rather than what the rank says.

Partner links. We do not operate transfers. We earn a commission on a booking, and the fare is the same as going direct.

Who runs this route

The flight gets in hours before any room is ready. Holding a bag is not what we sell.

Left luggage lockers

Left luggage near Addis Abeba train station

Most of the points near Addis Abeba train station open before the first train and shut after the last one.

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Questions about Sanaa to Addis Ababa

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 Sanaa to Addis Ababa?

The fastest journey from Sanaa to Addis Ababa takes 4h 47m door to door, of which 1h 42m is spent moving, on the flight. Most services take around 4h 53m, because that average includes slower stopping services and journeys with a connection. Times include reaching the terminal and leaving it at the far end.

How much does it cost to travel from Sanaa to Addis Ababa?

The cheapest fare from Sanaa to Addis Ababa is €86.28, as of 13 September 2026. A typical fare across the next three weeks is €146.46. 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 Sanaa to Addis Ababa?

The cheapest way from Sanaa to Addis Ababa is by flight, at €101.62 for one passenger on 28 September 2026. That journey takes 4h 52m door to door. Cheaper is rarely faster on this corridor, and the comparison table on this page shows what each mode costs against what it saves.

When should I book Sanaa to Addis Ababa?

Fares from Sanaa to Addis Ababa bottom out around 45 days before departure, at €80.38. Across the whole booking window the gap between the cheapest and the dearest lead time is 172 percent, measured on 13 September 2026. Booking inside the last week has consistently cost more on this corridor.

Which day of the week is cheapest for Sanaa to Addis Ababa?

Monday is the cheapest day to depart from Sanaa to Addis Ababa, at €113.42. That is the median of 21 priced departure days across the next three weeks, as of 13 September 2026. Shifting a departure by one day is usually worth more than shifting the booking by one week.

Which month is cheapest for Sanaa to Addis Ababa?

February is the cheapest of the next 6 months to travel from Sanaa to Addis Ababa, at €72.12 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 Sanaa to Addis Ababa?

1 operators sell services from Sanaa to Addis Ababa across 1 mode: Yemenia. 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 Sanaa to Addis Ababa?

33 percent of the services we sell from Sanaa to Addis Ababa are direct. The rest connect at Djibouti, Asmara, with about 71 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 Sanaa to Addis Ababa use?

Services from Sanaa to Addis Ababa by flight leave from Sanaa SAH and arrive at Addis Ababa ADD. 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 Sanaa to Addis Ababa?

0 of the 1 operators we sell from Sanaa to Addis Ababa allow a change or a refund. A change on a changeable fare costs €5.00. 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 shows this named operator serving this named pair, and we carry that through unchanged.

Where no operator publishes a fare for a corridor, the price here is our own estimate, worked out from the real distance and the real operator through a fare curve that follows lead time, day of the week and season. It tells you roughly what the journey costs. It is not a seat anyone has agreed to sell, and the payment step will not take it.

Defined in full at Door to door, Fares, The booking window, Carbon, Distances

On this page
Every figure above was computed for Sanaa to Addis Ababa on 13 September 2026: 948 km of route against 920 km in a straight line, 3 services a day, 1 operator a cheapest fare of €86.28, and 4h 47m door to door on the fastest mode. The return direction is computed separately and its numbers are not these numbers.

The flight is the simple part. What you do once you are in Addis Ababa is somebody else's catalogue.

A guided tour group

Day trips out of Addis Ababa and across Ethiopia

Day trips that leave Addis Ababa in the morning and cover a good part of Ethiopia by evening.

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The two ends, compared

Sanaa reaches 21 places in 17 countries on services we hold, over distances from 198 to 5,313 km. Addis Ababa reaches 117 places in 67 countries, from 64 to 12,163 km.

Other ways to make this journey

Leaving Sanaa

  • 21Places you can leave for
  • 17Countries
  • 6Operators

Arriving in Addis Ababa

Leaving Addis Ababa

  • 117Places you can leave for
  • 67Countries
  • 16Operators

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