Route brief · CAN → MLE
Guangzhou → Maldives
$590
−9% vs typical
seasonal median $650 · difference $60
Sep 17 – Sep 21 · 4 nights
Batik Air Malaysia1 stop
- Usual monthly lows
- $613–$669
- Board rank
- Stronger than 17%
- Route sample
- 10 observed months
Cached fare — the booking search re-prices live before you pay.
Destination briefMLEMaldivesThe flight is the cheap part; guesthouses on local islands are what make this a real trip rather than a brochure.Best windowNov–AprAirportsVelana (MLE)All routes into MaldivesWhen this route gets cheap.
Cached-fare history: across 10 months, Sep is the cheapest for CAN → MLE. Best time to be there: Nov–Apr.
Fares bottom out in September around $576 and peak in December near $675 — a $99 spread across the 10 months we track. The cheapest itinerary we are tracking makes one stop and takes about 8.5 hours outbound, on a 4-night trip — ticketed under Batik Air Malaysia, which on a connecting fare need not operate every leg. At $590 for 4,759 km each way, that works out to about $62 per 1,000 km flown. That is above the $39 typical of medium-haul fares here. Across the 5 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Maldives, this fare ranks 4th — 20% above the $493 from Jakarta.
Cheapest day in the next 3 months: Sep 17 · $590 (14% below median)
Tap any day → live search
The median cached fare across this calendar is 3% lower than when tracking began on Aug 8 — $693 then versus $669 now, across 8 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 $587, on Sep 8.
September 2026
October 2026
Cheapest in Sep · around $576
11% below the $650 typical fare
Cheapest round-trip fare found per month · Guangzhou → Maldives · cached-price history
Route facts
- Airports
- Baiyun (CAN) ↔ Velana (MLE)
- Flight time
- ~8.5 hours outbound
- Distance
- ~4,759 km each way
- Typical price
- $650 round-trip (seasonal median)
- Airlines on the board
- Batik Air Malaysia
- Itineraries
- Connections on current fares
- Best months to visit
- Nov–Apr
CAN → MLE, answered.
Is $590 a good price for Guangzhou to Maldives?
Only slightly. The seasonal median is around $650 round-trip and this fare is 9% under it, about $60. 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 Guangzhou to Maldives?
Across 10 months of cached-fare history, Sep comes out cheapest on this route. The best months to actually be in Maldives are Nov–Apr — when those overlap, that's your window.
How far in advance should I book CAN → Maldives?
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 10 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 Guangzhou to Maldives?
The current cheapest fares involve a connection, ticketed under Batik Air Malaysia. 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.
Next step
Sleeping in Maldives?
Lock the flight first — then compare stays for Sep 17 – Sep 21 · 4 nights.
Browse hotels ↗
Missed it?
Cached fares expire. This route has a feed of its own — follow it and the next CAN → MLE drop reaches you as soon as we find it.
Follow CAN → MLE