Route brief · DEL → AUH
Delhi → Abu Dhabi
$249
round-trip · too little price history on this route to compare
Sep 28 – Oct 2 · 4 nights
Gulf Air1 stop
Cached fare — the booking search re-prices live before you pay.
Destination briefAUHAbu DhabiQuieter and cheaper than Dubai an hour up the road, with the Grand Mosque and the Louvre to itself.Best windowNov–MarAirportsZayed International (AUH)All routes into Abu DhabiWhen this route gets cheap.
Best time to be in Abu Dhabi: Nov–Mar. Fare history for this route is still thin, so we make no seasonal call yet.
The cheapest itinerary we are tracking makes one stop and takes about 5.5 hours outbound, on a 4-night trip — ticketed under Gulf Air, which on a connecting fare need not operate every leg. At $249 for 2,314 km each way, that works out to about $54 per 1,000 km flown. That is above the $41 typical of short-haul fares here. We have 3 months of cached prices for this route so far — not enough to call a fare cheap or expensive, so we publish the price without a percentage.
The one day we hold a cached fare for
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The median cached fare across this calendar is 19% higher than when tracking began on Aug 8 — $334 then versus $398 now, across 5 recorded snapshots. This is a calendar-level trend, so an individual deal above can be lower. The lowest single day we have seen here is $271, on Sep 23.
These are the only days we have a cached price for on this route so far — not the only days it flies. The search above covers any date.
Route facts
- Airports
- Indira Gandhi (DEL) ↔ Zayed International (AUH)
- Flight time
- ~5.5 hours outbound
- Distance
- ~2,314 km each way
- Airlines on the board
- Gulf Air
- Itineraries
- Connections on current fares
- Best months to visit
- Nov–Mar
DEL → AUH, answered.
How far in advance should I book DEL → Abu Dhabi?
We do not publish a number for this, because we cannot measure it yet. Answering it honestly means watching the same departure date on this route over many weeks as it approaches, and that archive is still filling up — so any "book N days ahead" figure here would be borrowed from somewhere else rather than measured. See /guides/what-moves-a-flight-price/ for the levers we can measure.
Are there nonstop flights from Delhi to Abu Dhabi?
The current cheapest fares involve a connection, ticketed under Gulf Air. Nonstop options exist on many dates at higher prices — check the live search for your exact dates.
Are these prices guaranteed?
No — these are cached fares found on real searches (this one on September 1). Airlines reprice constantly, so the booking search re-checks the live price before you pay. Fresher finds are far more likely to still be available.
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