Route brief · ROM → MLE
Rome → Maldives
$575
−21% vs typical
seasonal median $730 · difference $155
Sep 26 – Sep 29 · 3 nights
Air Arabia1 stop
- Usual monthly lows
- $680–$732
- Board rank
- Stronger than 58%
- Route sample
- 9 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 9 months, Sep is the cheapest for ROM → MLE. Best time to be there: Nov–Apr.
Fares bottom out in September around $575 and peak in August near $901 — a $326 spread across the 9 months we track. The cheapest itinerary we are tracking makes one stop and takes about 10.5 hours outbound, on a 3-night trip — ticketed under Air Arabia, which on a connecting fare need not operate every leg. At $575 for 7,327 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 24 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Maldives, this fare ranks 4th — 17% above the $492 from Athens. That puts it in the cheaper half of the 24 routes of similar length we watch out of Rome, where the middle fare is $696.
Day-level prices for the next 4 months
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The median cached fare across this calendar is 10% lower than when tracking began on Aug 8 — $753 then versus $680 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 $575, on Sep 26.
Cached day-level data for this route is sparse — 11 of 122 days priced, from 27 tracked fares. The days below are shown as found, with no cheapest-day or below-median call.
Cheapest in Sep · around $575
21% below the $730 typical fare
Cheapest round-trip fare found per month · Rome → Maldives · cached-price history
Route facts
- Airports
- Fiumicino (FCO) · Ciampino (CIA) ↔ Velana (MLE)
- Flight time
- ~10.5 hours outbound
- Distance
- ~7,327 km each way
- Typical price
- $730 round-trip (seasonal median)
- Airlines on the board
- Air Arabia
- Itineraries
- Connections on current fares
- Best months to visit
- Nov–Apr
ROM → MLE, answered.
Is $575 a good price for Rome to Maldives?
Yes — the seasonal median for this route is around $730 round-trip. At $575 you're 21% below that, saving about $155, which we rate good for this route.
What is the cheapest month to fly from Rome to Maldives?
Across 9 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 ROM → 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 9 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 Rome to Maldives?
The current cheapest fares involve a connection, ticketed under Air Arabia. 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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