Route brief · DXB → OTP
Dubai → Bucharest
$190
−25% vs typical
seasonal median $255 · difference $65
Jan 23 '27 – Jan 26 '27 · 3 nights
Wizz Air MaltaNonstop
- Usual monthly lows
- $251–$256
- Board rank
- Stronger than 69%
- Route sample
- 4 observed months
Cached fare — the booking search re-prices live before you pay.
Destination briefOTPBucharestBelle-époque villas next to communist concrete, and the cheapest capital in the European Union.Best windowMay–Jun · Sep–OctAirportsHenri Coandă (OTP)All routes into BucharestWhen this route gets cheap.
Cached-fare history: across 4 months, Jan is the cheapest for DXB → OTP. Best time to be there: May–Jun · Sep–Oct.
Fares bottom out in January around $190 and peak in October near $333 — a $143 spread across the 4 months we track. The cheapest itinerary we are tracking flies Wizz Air Malta nonstop and takes about 5.5 hours outbound, on a 3-night trip. At $190 for 3,393 km each way, that works out to about $28 per 1,000 km flown. That is below the $39 typical of medium-haul fares here. Across the 3 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Bucharest, this fare ranks 2nd — 42% above the $134 from Lisbon. It is also the 2nd cheapest of the 11 routes of similar length we watch out of Dubai.
The 5 days we hold a cached fare for
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The median cached fare across this calendar is 20% lower than when tracking began on Aug 8 — $418 then versus $333 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 $204, on Nov 27.
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 Jan · around $190
25% below the $255 typical fare
Cheapest round-trip fare found per month · Dubai → Bucharest · cached-price history
Route facts
- Airports
- DXB · Al Maktoum (DWC) ↔ Henri Coandă (OTP)
- Flight time
- ~5.5 hours outbound
- Distance
- ~3,393 km each way
- Typical price
- $255 round-trip (seasonal median)
- Airlines on the board
- Wizz Air Malta
- Itineraries
- Nonstop available
- Best months to visit
- May–Jun · Sep–Oct
DXB → OTP, answered.
Is $190 a good price for Dubai to Bucharest?
Yes — the seasonal median for this route is around $255 round-trip. At $190 you're 25% below that, saving about $65, which we rate good for this route.
What is the cheapest month to fly from Dubai to Bucharest?
Across 4 months of cached-fare history, Jan comes out cheapest on this route. The best months to actually be in Bucharest are May–Jun · Sep–Oct — when those overlap, that's your window.
How far in advance should I book DXB → Bucharest?
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, Jan comes out lowest on this route. See /guides/what-moves-a-flight-price/ for what does move a fare.
Are there nonstop flights from Dubai to Bucharest?
Yes — the current board includes nonstop fares (Wizz Air Malta). The outbound leg runs around 5.5 hours.
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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