Route brief · DEL → MEL
Delhi → Melbourne
$736
−12% vs typical
seasonal median $835 · difference $99
Sep 16 – Oct 16 · 30 nights
IndiGo1 stop
- Usual monthly lows
- $736–$833
- Board rank
- Stronger than 28%
- Route sample
- 4 observed months
Cached fare — the booking search re-prices live before you pay.
Destination briefMELMelbourneLaneway coffee, four seasons before lunch, and the Great Ocean Road starting an hour down the coast.Best windowMar–May · Sep–NovAirportsTullamarine (MEL) · Avalon (AVV)All routes into MelbourneWhen this route gets cheap.
Cached-fare history: across 4 months, Sep is the cheapest for DEL → MEL. Best time to be there: Mar–May · Sep–Nov.
Fares bottom out in September around $736 and peak in October near $893 — a $157 spread across the 4 months we track. The cheapest itinerary we are tracking makes one stop and takes about 13.5 hours outbound, on a 30-night trip — ticketed under IndiGo, which on a connecting fare need not operate every leg. At $736 for 10,205 km each way, that works out to about $36 per 1,000 km flown. That is below the $44 typical of long-haul fares here. Across the 7 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Melbourne, this fare ranks 3rd — 33% above the $555 from Shanghai. That puts it in the cheaper half of the 10 routes of similar length we watch out of Delhi, where the middle fare is $760.
The 3 days we hold a cached fare for
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The median cached fare across this calendar is 2% lower than when tracking began on Aug 8 — $752 then versus $736 now, across 6 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 $673, on Oct 25.
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.
Cheapest in Sep · around $736
12% below the $835 typical fare
Cheapest round-trip fare found per month · Delhi → Melbourne · cached-price history
Route facts
- Airports
- Indira Gandhi (DEL) ↔ Tullamarine (MEL) · Avalon (AVV)
- Flight time
- ~13.5 hours outbound
- Distance
- ~10,205 km each way
- Typical price
- $835 round-trip (seasonal median)
- Airlines on the board
- IndiGo
- Itineraries
- Connections on current fares
- Best months to visit
- Mar–May · Sep–Nov
DEL → MEL, answered.
Is $736 a good price for Delhi to Melbourne?
Only slightly. The seasonal median is around $835 round-trip and this fare is 12% under it, about $99. We do not call a drop notable until 20%, so this is an ordinary price for the route rather than a reason to hurry.
What is the cheapest month to fly from Delhi to Melbourne?
Across 4 months of cached-fare history, Sep comes out cheapest on this route. The best months to actually be in Melbourne are Mar–May · Sep–Nov — when those overlap, that's your window.
How far in advance should I book DEL → Melbourne?
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. What we can measure is which month is cheap: across 4 months of cached fares, Sep comes out lowest on this route. See /guides/what-moves-a-flight-price/ for what does move a fare.
Are there nonstop flights from Delhi to Melbourne?
The current cheapest fares involve a connection, ticketed under IndiGo. 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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