Route brief · HKG → MLE
Hong Kong → Maldives
$496
−6% vs typical
seasonal median $525 · difference $29
Nov 10 – Nov 18 · 8 nights
Cathay Pacific2 stops
- Usual monthly lows
- $497–$533
- Board rank
- Stronger than 8%
- Route sample
- 5 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 5 months, Nov is the cheapest for HKG → MLE. Best time to be there: Nov–Apr.
Fares bottom out in November around $496 and peak in July near $588 — a $92 spread across the 5 months we track. The cheapest itinerary we are tracking makes 2 stops and takes about 9.5 hours outbound, on a 8-night trip — ticketed under Cathay Pacific, which on a connecting fare need not operate every leg. At $496 for 4,817 km each way, that works out to about $51 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 2nd — 1% above the $493 from Jakarta.
Day-level prices for the next 4 months
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The median cached fare across this calendar is 5% lower than when tracking began on Aug 8 — $580 then versus $551 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 $488, on Oct 25.
Cached day-level data for this route is sparse — 13 of 122 days priced, from 47 tracked fares. The days below are shown as found, with no cheapest-day or below-median call.
December 2026
Cheapest in Nov · around $496
6% below the $525 typical fare
Cheapest round-trip fare found per month · Hong Kong → Maldives · cached-price history
Route facts
- Airports
- Hong Kong (HKG) ↔ Velana (MLE)
- Flight time
- ~9.5 hours outbound
- Distance
- ~4,817 km each way
- Typical price
- $525 round-trip (seasonal median)
- Airlines on the board
- Cathay Pacific
- Itineraries
- Connections on current fares
- Best months to visit
- Nov–Apr
HKG → MLE, answered.
Is $496 a good price for Hong Kong to Maldives?
Only slightly. The seasonal median is around $525 round-trip and this fare is 6% under it, about $29. 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 Hong Kong to Maldives?
Across 5 months of cached-fare history, Nov 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 HKG → 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 5 months of cached fares, Nov comes out lowest on this route. See /guides/what-moves-a-flight-price/ for what does move a fare.
Are there nonstop flights from Hong Kong to Maldives?
The current cheapest fares involve a connection, ticketed under Cathay Pacific. 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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