Great1 stop · 14h
SEL to ISTTürkiye
Istanbul
$390
usually $640
−39%
Most monthly lows $515–$679. Cheaper than every other month on record (8).
Flights · SEL → MLE
Seoul to Maldives
Best fare, round trip
$580
−21%
below its usual $730
you keep $150
GoodFound
- Depart
- Tue 3 Nov
- Return
- Tue 10 Nov
- Stay
- 7 nights
- Flight
- 1 stop · 10.5h
- Airline
China Eastern
Most of this route’s monthly lows fall between $629 and $802. The drop beats 58% of measured fares on the board, over 6 observed months.
Cached fare — the booking search re-prices live before you pay.
MaldivesThe flight is the cheap part; guesthouses on local islands are what make this a real trip rather than a brochure.Best windowNov–AprAirportsVelana (MLE)Every route into MaldivesFare seasonality
When this route gets cheap.
Fares bottom out in November around $580 and peak in January near $815, 41% dearer, across the 6 months we track. The cheapest itinerary we are tracking makes one stop and takes about 10.5 hours outbound, on a 7-night trip — ticketed under China Eastern, which on a connecting fare need not operate every leg. At $580 for 6,561 km each way, that works out to about $44 per 1,000 km flown. That is about the $44 per 1,000 km typical of long-haul fares here. Across the 18 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Maldives, this fare ranks 5th — 12% above the $519 from Shanghai. That puts it in the cheaper half of the 16 routes of similar length we watch out of Seoul, where the middle fare is $587. The best time to be in Maldives: Nov–Apr.
Day-level prices for the next 4 months
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The median cached fare across this calendar is 15% lower than when tracking began on 8 Aug — $782 then versus $666 now, across 22 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 $564, on 27 Oct.
Cached day-level data for this route is sparse — 18 of 107 days priced, from 113 tracked fares. The days below are shown as found, with no cheapest-day or below-median call.
October 2026
November 2026
12Tuesday 3 November: $580. Compare fares from this day.Wednesday 4 November: $595. Compare fares from this day.5Friday 6 November: $634. Compare fares from this day.7Sunday 8 November: $625. Compare fares from this day.9Tuesday 10 November: $1.1k. Compare fares from this day.1112131415Monday 16 November: $650. Compare fares from this day.Tuesday 17 November: $681. Compare fares from this day.1819202122232425Thursday 26 November: $638. Compare fares from this day.27282930
December 2026
123456789Thursday 10 December: $755. Compare fares from this day.111213Monday 14 December: $702. Compare fares from this day.1516Thursday 17 December: $767. Compare fares from this day.Friday 18 December: $733. Compare fares from this day.1920212223242526Sunday 27 December: $848. Compare fares from this day.28Tuesday 29 December: $629. Compare fares from this day.3031
January 2027
123456789101112131415161718192021222324252627Thursday 28 January: $815. Compare fares from this day.29Saturday 30 January: $969. Compare fares from this day.31
Cached fares · checked 17 Oct 2026
Cheapest in Nov, around $580
21% below the $730 typical fare
$641Oct, below the usual price. Compare October fares.$580Nov, the cheapest month. Compare November fares.$629Dec, below the usual price. Compare December fares.$815Jan ’27, above the usual price. Compare January fares.$729Feb, around the usual price. Compare February fares.$802Mar, above the usual price. Compare March fares.
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Cheapest round-trip fare found each month, Seoul to Maldives, from cached prices.
Route facts
- Airports
- Incheon (ICN) · Gimpo (GMP) ↔ Velana (MLE)
- Flight time
- ≈10.5 hours outbound
- Distance
- ≈6,561 km each way
- Typical price
- $730 round-trip (seasonal median)
- Airlines on the board
- China Eastern
- Itineraries
- Connections on current fares
- Best months to visit
- Nov–Apr
Good to know
SEL → MLE, answered.
Is $580 a good price for Seoul to Maldives?
Yes — the seasonal median for this route is around $730 round-trip. At $580 you're 21% below that, which we rate good for this route.
What is the cheapest month to fly from Seoul to Maldives?
Across 6 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 SEL → 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 6 months of cached fares, Nov comes out lowest on this route. Our guide Why flight prices change covers what does move a fare.
Are there nonstop flights from Seoul to Maldives?
The current cheapest fares involve a connection, ticketed under China Eastern. We hold no nonstop fare on this route right now, which does not mean none flies — search your exact dates to see what does.
Are these prices guaranteed?
No — these are cached fares found on real searches (this one on 17 October). 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
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