Route brief · DUB → OTP
Dublin → Bucharest
$163
round-trip · too little price history on this route to compare
Oct 30 – Nov 1 · 2 nights
Ryanair1 stop
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.
Best time to be in Bucharest: May–Jun · Sep–Oct. 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 4.5 hours outbound, on a 2-night trip — ticketed under Ryanair, which on a connecting fare need not operate every leg. At $163 for 2,527 km each way, that works out to about $32 per 1,000 km flown. That is below the $39 typical of medium-haul fares here. Across the 6 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Bucharest, this fare ranks 6th — 2.5× the $64 we hold from London. It is also the 3rd cheapest of the 6 routes of similar length we watch out of Dublin. 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 23% higher than when tracking began on Aug 15 — $205 then versus $252 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 $126, 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.
Route facts
- Airports
- Dublin (DUB) ↔ Henri Coandă (OTP)
- Flight time
- ~4.5 hours outbound
- Distance
- ~2,527 km each way
- Airlines on the board
- Ryanair
- Itineraries
- Connections on current fares
- Best months to visit
- May–Jun · Sep–Oct
DUB → OTP, answered.
How far in advance should I book DUB → 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We do not publish a number for this, because we cannot measure it yet.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. See /guides/what-moves-a-flight-price/ for the levers we can measure.
Are there nonstop flights from Dublin to Bucharest?
The current cheapest fares involve a connection, ticketed under Ryanair. 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 August 30). 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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