Addis Ababa to Cotonou flight

Flights from Addis Ababa to Cotonou start at €413.73 and take 9h 37m at their fastest.

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The Flights from Addis Ababa to Cotonou starts at €413.73 and takes 9h 37m door to door, run by 1 operator over 4,133 km, with around 5 departures a day. Fares bottom out about 60 days before departure.

Checked September 12, 2026Priced for September 29, 2026One passenger, all fees included

  • 9h 37mDoor to door
  • 6h 27mMoving
  • €413.73From
  • 611.7 kgCO2
Real services

The cheapest and the fastest on September 29, 2026

Two journeys we can sell today, with the service number each operator files them under.

Cheapest€382.46
  1. Ethiopian Airlines EA882507:304h 37m12:07Addis Ababa ADDDouala DLA
  2. Air Senegal AS450513:091h 35m14:44Douala DLACotonou COO

Changes at Douala, with 62 minutes between services and a walk of about 5 minutes.

Door to door 10h 24mCO2 710.6 kgChanges 1Fixed, no changes

Fastest€466.24
  1. Ethiopian Airlines EA919206:156h 27m12:42Addis Ababa ADDCotonou COO

Door to door 9h 37mCO2 611.7 kgChanges 0Fixed, no changes

Carriers

Airlines

Speed, flexibility and what is on board. Nothing here is a rating, because we have not earned one.

Every operator we sell on this corridor. Speed is the carrier's own typical cruising speed, not the average over this route.
OperatorFromFastestTypical speedFlexibilityOn board
Ethiopian Airlines€382.468h 51m740 km/hFixed fareNot published
  • Ethiopian Airlines

That is the traveling done. What happens after you walk out into Cotonou is not something we sell.

A hotel room

A room in Cotonou for the night the flight gets in

Hotels and apartments near downtown, most of them with free cancellation, on a map that shows what is walkable.

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Booking window

When to book Addis Ababa to Cotonou

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

  1. €414.9190 days
  2. €267.4160 days
  3. €370.0745 days
  4. €314.6130 days
  5. €467.4221 days
  6. €444.4114 days
  7. €611.977 days
  8. €664.483 days
  9. €751.211 days
Cheapest lead time
Fares bottom out around 60 days ahead, at €267.41.
How much it moves
The gap between the cheapest and most expensive lead time is 181 percent. The most expensive point is €751.21, 1 days out.
What that means
Today sits inside the cheap window, which closes about 60 days before departure. Waiting from here has usually cost money on this corridor rather than saved it.
Day of the week

Which departure day costs least

Median cheapest fare for each weekday, taken across the next three weeks of real prices.

  1. €497.51Sun
  2. €429.07Mon
  3. €413.73Tue
  4. €517.57Wed
  5. €603.12Thu
  6. €526.42Fri
  7. €467.42Sat
Terminals

Where you leave from and where you arrive

The stations, airports and ports each mode on this corridor actually uses.

Addis Ababa

Air
  • ADD

Cotonou

Air
  • COO
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
20% of the services we sell on this corridor run through without a change. The remaining 80% involve one connection.
How far it really runs
The route covers 4,133 km against 4,012 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 Douala, Libreville, Lomé, Accra. The gap between arriving and leaving is 62 minutes, of which about 5 is walking.
If the connection is missed
The tightest connection we sell here has a 15 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.
First and last departure
The first service of the day leaves Addis Ababa at 06:15 and the last at 07:30, across 5 departures. The return direction keeps its own timetable, so the times back are not these times reversed.

Questions about Addis Ababa to Cotonou

The questions people actually ask about this trip, 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 the Flight from Addis Ababa to Cotonou take?

The Flight from Addis Ababa to Cotonou takes 9h 37m door to door, of which 6h 27m is spent moving. The route runs 4,133 km. The difference between the two times is reaching the terminal and leaving it at the far end, which every time on this page includes.

How much does the Flight from Addis Ababa to Cotonou cost?

The Flight from Addis Ababa to Cotonou starts at €413.73 for one passenger, checked on September 29, 2026. A typical fare is €425.53. Both are the total including taxes, supplier fees and our service fee, so the price here is the price at checkout.

Who runs the Flight from Addis Ababa to Cotonou?

1 operators run the Flight from Addis Ababa to Cotonou: Ethiopian Airlines. Between them they file around 5 departures a day. The operator table on this page compares them on fare, journey time, cruising speed, fare conditions and what is provided on board.

Which terminal does the Flight from Addis Ababa to Cotonou use?

The Flight from Addis Ababa to Cotonou leaves from Addis Ababa ADD and arrives at Cotonou COO. Allow about 3h 10m for reaching the departure terminal and leaving the arrival one. That time is already inside every door to door figure quoted on this page.

When should I book the Flight from Addis Ababa to Cotonou?

Fares for the Flight from Addis Ababa to Cotonou bottom out around 60 days ahead, at €267.41. The gap between the cheapest and most expensive lead time across the window is 181 percent, measured on September 29, 2026. Booking inside the final week has consistently cost more.

How much CO2 does the Flight from Addis Ababa to Cotonou produce?

The Flight from Addis Ababa to Cotonou produces about 611.7 kg of CO2 per passenger over 4133 km, which works out at roughly 148 grams per passenger kilometer. That figure is for the whole journey and for one traveler, not for the vehicle.

Where these numbers come from

Observed service A carrier record shows this named operator serving this named pair, and we carry that through unchanged.

Schedules, seat counts and fares are generated by our own model until the supplier contracts are signed. Places, coordinates, operators, which operator serves which pair, and every distance are real. We would rather say that on every page than let a modeled number pass for a filed one.

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

On this page
Every figure above was computed for Addis Ababa to Cotonou on September 12, 2026: 4133 km of route against 4012 km in a straight line, 5 services a day, 1 operators, a cheapest fare of €413.73, and 9h 37m door to door on the fastest mode. The return direction is computed separately and its numbers are not these numbers.

Related journeys

Landing at COO after the trains have stopped is the case this solves. We do not run cars.

A taxi stand outside an airport terminal

Getting from COO into Cotonou?

A price agreed before you fly, a driver at arrivals, and a car big enough for the bags.

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