Compare trains, buses, flights and ferries from Nice to Abu Dhabi. From €384.23, fastest 9h 48m, with the total price and every fee shown up front.
Traveling from Nice to Abu Dhabi costs €384.23 at the cheapest and takes 9h 48m door to door at the fastest, across 1 mode and 1 operator. The route covers 4,902 km. Cheapest is by Flight, fastest is by Flight.
Journey times below are door to door, so they include getting to the terminal and away from it at the other end. Fares are the cheapest we currently sell on September 29, 2026.
| Mode | Door to door | Moving | At the ends | From | CO2 | Per day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Flight | 10h 34m | 7h 24m | 3h 10m | €484.53 | 725.5 kg | 5 |
Two journeys we can sell today, with the service number each operator files them under.
Changes at Kuwait City, with 83 minutes between services and a walk of about 5 minutes.
Door to door 12h 3mCO2 810.5 kgChanges 1Fixed, no changes
Door to door 10h 34mCO2 725.5 kgChanges 0Fixed, no changes
Live from the operators' own published timetables, through the open transit feeds they publish. Times and services are real. Fares are modeled until our booking connectors are live.
Live from the operators' own published timetables, through the open transit feeds they publish. Times and services are real. Fares are modeled until our booking connectors are live.
Live from our own engine, refreshed on every request. The cheapest days for each way of traveling are marked.
| Cheapest fare by mode and day for Nice to Abu Dhabi | FriSep 11 | SatSep 12 | SunSep 13 | MonSep 14 | TueSep 15 | WedSep 16 | ThuSep 17 | FriSep 18 | SatSep 19 | SunSep 20 | MonSep 21 | TueSep 22 | WedSep 23 | ThuSep 24 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Flight | €919.95 | €1,007.27 | €733.51 | €644.42 | €588.37 | €619.05 | €648.55 | €574.21 | €668.02 | €575.39 | €497.51 | €512.26 | €484.53 | €625.54 |
Cheapest day: 2026-09-29 · €384.23
The flight gets you into Abu Dhabi. It does not get you a bed, and neither do we.
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Median cheapest fare for each weekday, taken across the next three weeks of real prices.
The same journey priced on the fifteenth of each of the next six months.
Direct or connecting, how far the route really runs, and what happens when a connection is missed.
The stations, airports and ports each mode on this corridor actually uses.
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.
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Speed, flexibility and what is on board. Nothing here is a rating, because we have not earned one.
| Operator | From | Fastest | Typical speed | Flexibility | On board |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Etihad Airways | €467.42 | 9h 48m | 740 km/h | Fixed fare | Not published |
Every part of the total, so the number at checkout is the number here.
| Part | Amount | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Operator fare | €318.00 | 83% |
| Taxes | €57.24 | 15% |
| Supplier fees | €7.00 | 2% |
| Our service fee | €1.99 | 1% |
| Total you pay | €384.23 | 100% |
We cannot promise Abu Dhabi Airport City Terminal still has a baggage check, because plenty of stations closed theirs.
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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The fastest journey from Nice to Abu Dhabi takes 9h 48m door to door, of which 7h 24m is spent moving, on the Flight. Most services take around 10h 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.
The cheapest fare from Nice to Abu Dhabi is €384.23, checked on September 29, 2026. A typical fare across the next three weeks is €629.08. Both figures are the total for one passenger, including taxes, supplier fees and our service fee, so nothing is added at checkout.
The cheapest way from Nice to Abu Dhabi is by Flight, at €484.53 for one passenger on September 29, 2026. That journey takes 10h 34m 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.
Fares from Nice to Abu Dhabi bottom out around 60 days before departure, at €315.79. Across the whole booking window the gap between the cheapest and the most expensive lead time is 191 percent, measured on September 29, 2026. Booking inside the last week has consistently cost more on this corridor.
Wednesday is the cheapest day to depart from Nice to Abu Dhabi, at €484.53. That is the median of 21 priced departure days across the next three weeks, checked on September 29, 2026. Shifting a departure by one day is usually worth more than shifting the booking by one week.
February is the cheapest of the next 6 months to travel from Nice to Abu Dhabi, at €310.48 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.
1 operators sell services from Nice to Abu Dhabi across 1 modes: 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.
20 percent of the services we sell from Nice to Abu Dhabi are direct. The rest connect at Bari, Rome, Kuwait City, Doha, with about 50 minutes between the two services. Both legs are sold on one booking, so a missed connection is rebooked at no charge.
Services from Nice to Abu Dhabi by Flight leave from Nice NCE and arrive at Abu Dhabi AZI. 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.
0 of the 1 operators we sell from Nice 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.
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.
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The flight is the simple part. What you do once you are in Abu Dhabi is somebody else's catalog.
The tickets worth having in advance, because the line at the door is usually the whole morning.
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