Malé to Abu Dhabi runs about 6 times a day, with the first departure around 06:22 and the last around 14:09. One passenger pays between €262.69 and €313.43, every fee included, depending on the operator and the way you travel. The fastest door to door is 7h 31m over 3,136 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
€262.69 to €313.43
- 184%Moves across the booking window
When it runs, leaving Malé
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.
- 06:22First departure
- 14:09Last departure
- 6Services per day
- 33%Run direct
Fares by date
What this journey usually costs, by departure date. It shows which days run dearer.
Typical fares
- about €544.12Tue15
- about €494.56Wed16
- about €638.52Thu17
- about €460.93Fri18
- about €520.52Sat19
- about €462.70Sun20
- about €375.38Mon21
- about €334.08Tue22
- about €313.43Wed23
- about €450.31Thu24
- about €388.95Fri25
- about €403.70Sat26
- about €414.32Sun27
- about €321.10Mon28
- about €262.69Tue29
- about €296.32Wed30
- about €355.32Thu1
- about €311.07Fri2
- about €288.06Sat3
- about €278.03Sun4
- about €271.54Mon5
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 Abu Dhabi. It does not get you a bed, and neither do we.
A room in Abu Dhabi for the night the flight gets in
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When to book Malé to Abu Dhabi
The same search run across the whole booking window, so the shape of the curve is visible rather than described.
- €320.5190 days
- €245.5860 days
- €273.3145 days
- €224.9330 days
- €271.5421 days
- €321.1014 days
- €375.387 days
- €638.523 days
- €544.121 days
- Cheapest lead time
- Fares bottom out around 30 days ahead, at €224.93.
- How much it moves
- The gap between the cheapest and most expensive lead time is 184 percent. The most expensive point is €638.52, 3 days out.
- What that means
- Today sits inside the cheap window, which closes about 30 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 30 days ahead. You are inside that window.
This corridor, specifically
Facts that apply to Malé to Abu Dhabi and to no other route on the site.
Clocks
1 hours behind on arrival. You land earlier than the journey suggests.
The shape of it
3,136 km
3,044 km as the crow flies, 3% further by the route services actually take. The bearing runs north-west.
Who lives at each end
103,693 → 1,807,000
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
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 3,136 km against 3,044 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 Dubai, Sharjah, Kochi, Muscat. The gap between arriving and leaving is 61 minutes, of which about 14 is walking.
- If the connection is missed
- The tightest connection we sell here has a 16 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.
Abu Dhabi is large, and the road in from AUH can take longer than the last hour of the flight. Cars are not our business.
A car waiting when you land in Abu Dhabi
Settled in advance, so the ride into Abu Dhabi costs what it said it would rather than what the cab stand says.
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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.
Baggage storage near Abu Dhabi Airport City Terminal
Most of the points near Abu Dhabi Airport City Terminal open before the first train and close after the last one.
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Questions about Malé to Abu Dhabi
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 Malé to Abu Dhabi?
The fastest journey from Malé to Abu Dhabi takes 7h 31m door to door, of which 4h 36m is spent moving, on the flight. Most services take around 7h 46m, 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 Malé to Abu Dhabi?
The cheapest fare from Malé to Abu Dhabi is €262.69, as of September 14, 2026. A typical fare across the next three weeks is €421.99. 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 Malé to Abu Dhabi?
The cheapest way from Malé to Abu Dhabi is by flight, at €313.43 for one passenger on September 29, 2026. That journey takes 7h 46m 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 Malé to Abu Dhabi?
Fares from Malé to Abu Dhabi bottom out around 30 days before departure, at €224.93. Across the whole booking window the gap between the cheapest and the most expensive lead time is 184 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 Malé to Abu Dhabi?
Wednesday is the cheapest day to depart from Malé to Abu Dhabi, at €313.43. 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 Malé to Abu Dhabi?
February is the cheapest of the next 6 months to travel from Malé to Abu Dhabi, at €201.92 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 Malé to Abu Dhabi?
1 operators sell services from Malé to Abu Dhabi across 1 mode: Etihad Airways. 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 Malé to Abu Dhabi?
33 percent of the services we sell from Malé to Abu Dhabi are direct. The rest connect at Dubai, Sharjah, Kochi, Muscat, with about 61 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 Malé to Abu Dhabi use?
Services from Malé to Abu Dhabi by flight leave from Male MLE and arrive at Abu Dhabi AUH. 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 Malé to Abu Dhabi?
0 of the 1 operators we sell from Malé to Abu Dhabi 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 Malé to Abu Dhabi on September 14, 2026: 3136 km of route against 3044 km in a straight line, 6 services a day, 1 operator a cheapest fare of €262.69, and 7h 31m 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 Abu Dhabi is somebody else's catalog.
Day trips out of Abu Dhabi and across United Arab Emirates
Day trips that leave Abu Dhabi in the morning and cover a good part of United Arab Emirates by evening.
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The two ends, compared
Malé reaches 31 places in 20 countries on services we hold, over distances from 612 to 8,517 km. Abu Dhabi reaches 161 places in 71 countries, from 94 to 13,464 km.
Other ways to make this journey
Leaving Malé
- 31Places you can leave for
- 20Countries
- 34Operators
Arriving in Abu Dhabi
Leaving Abu Dhabi
- 161Places you can leave for
- 71Countries
- 40Operators