Chennai to Malé runs about 4 times a day, with the first departure around 06:03 and the last around 07:30. One passenger pays between €125.81 and €157.08, every fee included, depending on the operator and the way you travel. The fastest door to door is 5h 12m over 1,276 km, on services run by 1 operator across 1 mode.
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
€125.81 to €157.08
- 225%Moves across the booking window
When it runs, leaving Chennai
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.
- 06:03First departure
- 07:30Last departure
- 4Services per day
- 25%Run direct
Fares by date
What this journey usually costs, by departure date. It shows which days run dearer.
Typical fares
- about €273.90Tue15
- about €275.67Wed16
- about €316.38Thu17
- about €229.06Fri18
- about €230.24Sat19
- about €237.32Sun20
- about €187.17Mon21
- about €163.57Tue22
- about €156.54Wed23
- about €189.53Thu24
- about €170.65Fri25
- about €196.69Sat26
- about €160.03Sun27
- about €157.08Mon28
- about €122.44Tue29
- about €125.81Wed30
- about €139.38Thu1
- about €147.64Fri2
- about €130.53Sat3
- about €125.81Sun4
- about €116.39Mon5
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 Malé. It does not get you a bed, and neither do we.
A room in Malé for the night the flight gets in
Sort by distance from Greater Male' Bus Terminal and you can see which places are ten minutes on foot and which are not.
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When to book Chennai to Malé
The same search run across the whole booking window, so the shape of the curve is visible rather than described.
- €146.4690 days
- €97.4960 days
- €133.9945 days
- €104.5730 days
- €116.3921 days
- €157.0814 days
- €187.177 days
- €316.383 days
- €273.901 days
- Cheapest lead time
- Fares bottom out around 60 days ahead, at €97.49.
- How much it moves
- The gap between the cheapest and most expensive lead time is 225 percent. The most expensive point is €316.38, 3 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.
Book now Fares on this route are lowest around 60 days ahead. You are inside that window.
This corridor, specifically
Facts that apply to Chennai to Malé and to no other route on the site.
Clocks
0.5 hours behind on arrival. You land earlier than the journey suggests.
The shape of it
1,276 km
1,239 km as the crow flies, 3% further by the route services actually take. The bearing runs south-west.
Who lives at each end
4,681,087 → 103,693
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
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 1,276 km against 1,239 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 Thiruvananthapuram, Kochi, Bengaluru, Colombo. The gap between arriving and leaving is 67 minutes, of which about 5 is walking.
- If the connection is missed
- The tightest connection we sell here has a 14 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.
The fare from MLE into Malé is the one price on this trip we cannot show you, because it is not ours.
A car waiting when you land in Malé
Settled in advance, so the ride into Malé costs what it said it would rather than what the cab stand says.
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Who runs this route
Malé is small enough to see in an afternoon, which is easier without the luggage. Storing it is not our business.
Baggage storage near Greater Male' Bus Terminal
Most of the points near Greater Male' Bus Terminal open before the first train and close after the last one.
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Questions about Chennai to Malé
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 it take to get from Chennai to Malé?
The fastest journey from Chennai to Malé takes 5h 12m door to door, of which 2h 11m is spent moving, on the flight. Most services take around 5h 20m, 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 Chennai to Malé?
The cheapest fare from Chennai to Malé is €116.39, as of September 14, 2026. A typical fare across the next three weeks is €171.83. 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 Malé?
The cheapest way from Chennai to Malé is by flight, at €157.08 for one passenger on October 5, 2026. That journey takes 5h 21m 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 Chennai to Malé?
Fares from Chennai to Malé bottom out around 60 days before departure, at €97.49. Across the whole booking window the gap between the cheapest and the most expensive lead time is 225 percent, measured on September 14, 2026. Booking inside the last week has consistently cost more on this corridor.
Which day of the week is cheapest for Chennai to Malé?
Wednesday is the cheapest day to depart from Chennai to Malé, at €156.54. That is the median of 21 priced departure days across the next three weeks, as of September 14, 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 Malé?
February is the cheapest of the next 6 months to travel from Chennai to Malé, at €93.36 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 service from Chennai to Malé?
1 operators sell services from Chennai to Malé across 1 mode: Maldivian. 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 Malé?
20 percent of the services we sell from Chennai to Malé are direct. The rest connect at Thiruvananthapuram, Kochi, Bengaluru, Colombo, with about 67 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 Malé use?
Services from Chennai to Malé by flight leave from Chennai MAA and arrive at Male MLE. 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 Malé?
0 of the 1 operators we sell from Chennai to Malé 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 Chennai to Malé on September 14, 2026: 1276 km of route against 1239 km in a straight line, 5 services a day, 1 operator a cheapest fare of €116.39, and 5h 12m door to door on the fastest mode. The return direction is computed separately and its numbers are not these numbers.
Being on the water gives Malé a set of days out that do not start at a station. We do not sell those either.
Day trips out of Malé and across Maldives
Day trips that leave Malé in the morning and cover a good part of Maldives by evening.
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The two ends, compared
Chennai reaches 104 places in 26 countries on services we hold, over distances from 41 to 8,211 km. Malé reaches 31 places in 20 countries, from 612 to 8,517 km.
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Leaving Chennai
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- 26Countries
- 41Operators
Arriving in Malé
Leaving Malé
- 31Places you can leave for
- 20Countries
- 34Operators