Route brief · DUB → DXB
Dublin → Dubai
$249
−44% vs typical
seasonal median $445 · difference $196
Sep 16 – Sep 19 · 3 nights
AL2 stops
- Usual monthly lows
- $402–$478
- Board rank
- Stronger than 92%
- Route sample
- 5 observed months
Cached fare — the booking search re-prices live before you pay.
Destination briefDXBDubaiFuture-city skyline, desert dunes, winter sun on tap — and Emirates sales twice a year.Best windowNov–MarAirportsDXB · Al Maktoum (DWC)All routes into DubaiWhen this route gets cheap.
Cached-fare history: across 5 months, Sep is the cheapest for DUB → DXB. Best time to be there: Nov–Mar.
Fares bottom out in September around $249 and peak in December near $648 — a $399 spread across the 5 months we track. The cheapest itinerary we are tracking makes 2 stops and takes about 11.5 hours outbound, on a 3-night trip — ticketed under AL, which on a connecting fare need not operate every leg. At $249 for 5,915 km each way, that works out to about $21 per 1,000 km flown. That is well under the $39 that medium-haul fares on this board typically run. Across the 25 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Dubai, this fare ranks 7th — 22% above the $204 from Stockholm. It is also the cheapest of the 14 routes of similar length we watch out of Dublin.
The 6 days we hold a cached fare for
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The median cached fare across this calendar is 2% higher than when tracking began on Aug 8 — $463 then versus $472 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 $288, on Sep 16.
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 $249
44% below the $445 typical fare
Cheapest round-trip fare found per month · Dublin → Dubai · cached-price history
Route facts
- Airports
- Dublin (DUB) ↔ DXB · Al Maktoum (DWC)
- Flight time
- ~11.5 hours outbound
- Distance
- ~5,915 km each way
- Typical price
- $445 round-trip (seasonal median)
- Airlines on the board
- AL
- Itineraries
- Connections on current fares
- Best months to visit
- Nov–Mar
DUB → DXB, answered.
Is $249 a good price for Dublin to Dubai?
Yes — the seasonal median for this route is around $445 round-trip. At $249 you're 44% below that, saving about $196, which we rate rare for this route.
What is the cheapest month to fly from Dublin to Dubai?
Across 5 months of cached-fare history, Sep comes out cheapest on this route. The best months to actually be in Dubai are Nov–Mar — when those overlap, that's your window.
How far in advance should I book DUB → Dubai?
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 5 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 Dublin to Dubai?
The current cheapest fares involve a connection, ticketed under AL. 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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