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ADD Addis Ababa ⇄ DXB Dubai

Addis Ababa Bole International Airport (Ethiopia) and Dubai International Airport (United Arab Emirates): great-circle distance, estimated scheduled flight time each way, time difference and jet lag.

Distance2,519 km1,565 mi1,360 nautical miles
ADD → DXB3 h 50 minestimated block time
DXB → ADD4 hestimated block time
Clock change+1 hDubai vs Addis Ababa, today
Great-circle route from Addis Ababa (ADD) to Dubai (DXB)ADDAddis AbabaDXBDubai
The shortest path over the Earth’s surface (great circle), drawn on a Natural Earth projection. Real flight paths bend around weather, winds and closed airspace.

Flight time each way

ADD → DXB

3 h 50 min

Estimated gate-to-gate scheduled time. Initial heading 42° (NE).

Leave Addis Ababa Sat 7 Nov, 10:00 local → arrive Dubai Sat 7 Nov, 14:50 local.

DXB → ADD

4 h

Estimated gate-to-gate scheduled time. Initial heading 227° (SW).

Leave Dubai Sat 7 Nov, 10:00 local → arrive Addis Ababa Sat 7 Nov, 13:00 local.

The two directions differ by 10 minutes in our estimate: this route is mostly outside the latitudes of the strongest westerlies, so the wind has little effect on the total. How we estimate it.

Distance

Great-circle distance2,519 km · 1,565 mi · 1,360 nmi
Initial heading42° (NE) from ADD; 227° (SW) from DXB
Farthest from the equator25.2°N
Crossesneither the equator nor the 180th meridian
Share of the longest possible trip13% of the 20,015 km to the far side of the Earth

Time zones and jet lag

ADDAfrica/Addis_Ababa — UTC+3 now; UTC+3 all year (no daylight saving time)
DXBAsia/Dubai — UTC+4 now; UTC+4 all year (no daylight saving time)
DifferenceDubai is 1 hour ahead of Addis Ababa today.

Jet lag, flying ADD → DXB. Your body clock has to move 1 hour earlier, like an eastward trip. A shift this small rarely causes much jet lag; most people feel normal within a day or so. Flying the other way, the shift is reversed.

General information, not medical advice.

The two airports

ADD Addis Ababa Bole International AirportAddis Ababa, Ethiopia · longest runway 12,467 ft3,800 m DXB Dubai International AirportDubai, United Arab Emirates · longest runway 14,590 ft4,447 m

More routes from ADD and DXB

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Need a different pair? The flight-time calculator works for any two of 3,245 airports. Not covered: which airlines fly this route, schedules, fares and live status — that data is proprietary and we don’t guess it.

Photos on airport pages are credited there. Estimates are rounded to 5 minutes; typical error about 13 minutes (validation).