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DXB Dubai ⇄ MLE Malé

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

Distance3,040 km1,889 mi1,642 nautical miles
DXB → MLE4 h 25 minestimated block time
MLE → DXB4 h 35 minestimated block time
Clock change+1 hMalé vs Dubai, today
Great-circle route from Dubai (DXB) to Malé (MLE)DXBDubaiMLEMalé
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

DXB → MLE

4 h 25 min

Estimated gate-to-gate scheduled time. Initial heading 137° (SE).

Leave Dubai Sat 7 Nov, 10:00 local → arrive Malé Sat 7 Nov, 15:25 local.

MLE → DXB

4 h 35 min

Estimated gate-to-gate scheduled time. Initial heading 322° (NW).

Leave Malé Sat 7 Nov, 10:00 local → arrive Dubai Sat 7 Nov, 13:35 local.

The two directions differ by 9 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 distance3,040 km · 1,889 mi · 1,642 nmi
Initial heading137° (SE) from DXB; 322° (NW) from MLE
Farthest from the equator25.2°N
Crossesneither the equator nor the 180th meridian
Share of the longest possible trip15% of the 20,015 km to the far side of the Earth

Time zones and jet lag

DXBAsia/Dubai — UTC+4 now; UTC+4 all year (no daylight saving time)
MLEIndian/Maldives — UTC+5 now; UTC+5 all year (no daylight saving time)
DifferenceMalé is 1 hour ahead of Dubai today.

Jet lag, flying DXB → MLE. 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

DXB Dubai International AirportDubai, United Arab Emirates · longest runway 14,590 ft4,447 m MLE Velana International AirportMalé, Maldives · longest runway 11,155 ft3,400 m

More routes from DXB and MLE

DXBRUH Dubai – Riyadh 874 km543 mi · 2 h 05 min ADDDXB Addis Ababa – Dubai 2,519 km1,565 mi · 3 h 50 min DXBCDG Dubai – Paris 5,239 km3,255 mi · 7 h 35 min DXBHKG Dubai – Hong Kong 5,919 km3,678 mi · 7 h 20 min DXBMEL Dubai – Melbourne 11,644 km7,235 mi · 13 h 50 min DXBAKL Dubai – Auckland 14,199 km8,823 mi · 16 h 30 min CMBMLE Colombo – Malé 778 km483 mi · 1 h 55 min BOMMLE Mumbai – Malé 1,658 km1,030 mi · 2 h 55 min LHRMLE London – Malé 8,539 km5,306 mi · 10 h 15 min

Routes of a similar length

MANTFS Manchester – Tenerife 3,048 km1,894 mi · 4 h 40 min JNBMRU Johannesburg – Mauritius 3,066 km1,905 mi · 4 h 20 min YYZPUJ Toronto – Punta Cana 2,984 km1,854 mi · 4 h 20 min YULCUN Montreal – Cancún 2,969 km1,845 mi · 4 h 35 min

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).