Route brief · LIS → MLE
Lisbon → Maldives
$703
−37% vs typical
seasonal median $1,115 · difference $412
Sep 18 – Sep 25 · 7 nights
Malta Air3 stops
- Usual monthly lows
- $790–$1,215
- Board rank
- Stronger than 86%
- 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, Sep is the cheapest for LIS → MLE. Best time to be there: Nov–Apr.
Fares bottom out in September around $703 and peak in December near $1,247 — a $544 spread across the 5 months we track. The cheapest itinerary we are tracking makes 3 stops and takes about 14.5 hours outbound, on a 7-night trip — ticketed under Malta Air, which on a connecting fare need not operate every leg. At $703 for 9,080 km each way, that works out to about $39 per 1,000 km flown. That is below the $44 typical of long-haul fares here. Across the 20 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Maldives, this fare ranks 10th — 24% above the $566 from Munich. That puts it in the cheaper half of the 30 routes of similar length we watch out of Lisbon, where the middle fare is $797.
Day-level prices for the next 3 months
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The median cached fare across this calendar is 7% lower than when tracking began on Aug 8 — $1,084 then versus $1,013 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 $851, on Sep 18.
Cached day-level data for this route is sparse — 11 of 101 days priced, from 23 tracked fares. The days below are shown as found, with no cheapest-day or below-median call.
October 2026
November 2026
Cheapest in Sep · around $703
37% below the $1,115 typical fare
Cheapest round-trip fare found per month · Lisbon → Maldives · cached-price history
Route facts
- Airports
- Humberto Delgado (LIS) ↔ Velana (MLE)
- Flight time
- ~14.5 hours outbound
- Distance
- ~9,080 km each way
- Typical price
- $1,115 round-trip (seasonal median)
- Airlines on the board
- Malta Air
- Itineraries
- Connections on current fares
- Best months to visit
- Nov–Apr
LIS → MLE, answered.
Is $703 a good price for Lisbon to Maldives?
Yes — the seasonal median for this route is around $1,115 round-trip. At $703 you're 37% below that, saving about $412, which we rate great for this route.
What is the cheapest month to fly from Lisbon to Maldives?
Across 5 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 LIS → 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, 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 Lisbon to Maldives?
The current cheapest fares involve a connection, ticketed under Malta Air. 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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