Route brief · DXB → DEL
Dubai → Delhi
$268
−11% vs typical
seasonal median $300 · difference $32
Sep 17 – Sep 24 · 7 nights
Air ArabiaNonstop
- Usual monthly lows
- $301–$327
- Board rank
- Stronger than 24%
- Route sample
- 7 observed months
Cached fare — the booking search re-prices live before you pay.
Destination briefDELDelhiMughal tombs, Lutyens boulevards and the loudest markets on earth — plus the Taj Mahal at arm’s length.Best windowOct–MarAirportsIndira Gandhi (DEL)All routes into DelhiWhen this route gets cheap.
Cached-fare history: across 7 months, Sep is the cheapest for DXB → DEL. Best time to be there: Oct–Mar.
Fares bottom out in September around $270 and peak in January near $332 — a $62 spread across the 7 months we track. The cheapest itinerary we are tracking flies Air Arabia nonstop and takes about 3.5 hours outbound, on a 7-night trip. At $268 for 2,205 km each way, that works out to about $61 per 1,000 km flown. That is above the $41 typical of short-haul fares here.
Day-level prices for the next 4 months
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The median cached fare across this calendar is 11% higher than when tracking began on Aug 8 — $293 then versus $324 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 $236, on Aug 27.
Cached day-level data for this route is sparse — 20 of 122 days priced, from 66 tracked fares. The days below are shown as found, with no cheapest-day or below-median call.
November 2026
Cheapest in Sep · around $270
10% below the $300 typical fare
Cheapest round-trip fare found per month · Dubai → Delhi · cached-price history
Route facts
- Airports
- DXB · Al Maktoum (DWC) ↔ Indira Gandhi (DEL)
- Flight time
- ~3.5 hours outbound
- Distance
- ~2,205 km each way
- Typical price
- $300 round-trip (seasonal median)
- Airlines on the board
- Air Arabia
- Itineraries
- Nonstop available
- Best months to visit
- Oct–Mar
DXB → DEL, answered.
Is $268 a good price for Dubai to Delhi?
Only slightly. The seasonal median is around $300 round-trip and this fare is 11% under it, about $32. 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 Dubai to Delhi?
Across 7 months of cached-fare history, Sep comes out cheapest on this route. The best months to actually be in Delhi are Oct–Mar — when those overlap, that's your window.
How far in advance should I book DXB → Delhi?
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 7 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 Dubai to Delhi?
Yes — the current board includes nonstop fares (Air Arabia). The outbound leg runs around 3.5 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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