RareNonstop · 1.5h
ZRH to ROMItaly
Rome
$60
usually $100
−40%
Most monthly lows $69–$102. Cheaper than every other month on record (3).
Flights · ZRH → MLE
Zurich to Maldives
Best fare, round trip
$605
−16%
below its usual $720
you keep $115
Found
- Depart
- Fri 5 Mar
- Return
- Sat 20 Mar
- Stay
- 15 nights
- Flight
- 1 stop · 13.5h
- Airline
Air India
Most of this route’s monthly lows fall between $683 and $795. The drop beats 44% 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 March around $605 and peak in May near $814, 35% dearer, across the 6 months we track. The cheapest itinerary we are tracking makes one stop and takes about 13.5 hours outbound, on a 15-night trip — ticketed under Air India, which on a connecting fare need not operate every leg. At $605 for 7,801 km each way, that works out to about $39 per 1,000 km flown. That is below the $44 per 1,000 km typical of long-haul fares here. Across the 23 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Maldives, this fare ranks 6th — 10% above the $548 from Istanbul. That puts it in the cheaper half of the 33 routes of similar length we watch out of Zurich, where the middle fare is $763. 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 7% lower than when tracking began on 8 Aug — $862 then versus $799 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 $605, on 5 Mar '27.
Cached day-level data for this route is sparse — 16 of 107 days priced, from 84 tracked fares. The days below are shown as found, with no cheapest-day or below-median call.
October 2026
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November 2026
1Monday 2 November: $739. Compare fares from this day.34567891011121314Sunday 15 November: $734. Compare fares from this day.16171819202122232425262728Sunday 29 November: $684. Compare fares from this day.30
December 2026
Tuesday 1 December: $743. Compare fares from this day.234Saturday 5 December: $714. Compare fares from this day.Sunday 6 December: $707. Compare fares from this day.Monday 7 December: $683. Compare fares from this day.891011121314151617Friday 18 December: $1.2k. Compare fares from this day.Saturday 19 December: $1.1k. Compare fares from this day.Sunday 20 December: $1k. Compare fares from this day.21222324252627Monday 28 December: $1.1k. Compare fares from this day.293031
January 2027
Friday 1 January: $1.1k. Compare fares from this day.Saturday 2 January: $892. Compare fares from this day.3Monday 4 January: $886. Compare fares from this day.567Friday 8 January: $803. Compare fares from this day.910111213141516171819202122232425262728Friday 29 January: $795. Compare fares from this day.3031
Cached fares · checked 17 Oct 2026
Cheapest in Mar, around $605
16% below the $720 typical fare
$684Nov, below the usual price. Compare November fares.$683Dec, below the usual price. Compare December fares.$795Jan ’27, above the usual price. Compare January fares.$722Feb, around the usual price. Compare February fares.$605Mar, the cheapest month. Compare March fares.$814May, above the usual price. Compare May fares.
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Cheapest round-trip fare found each month, Zurich to Maldives, from cached prices.
Route facts
- Airports
- Zurich (ZRH) ↔ Velana (MLE)
- Flight time
- ≈13.5 hours outbound
- Distance
- ≈7,801 km each way
- Typical price
- $720 round-trip (seasonal median)
- Airlines on the board
- Air India
- Itineraries
- Connections on current fares
- Best months to visit
- Nov–Apr
Good to know
ZRH → MLE, answered.
Is $605 a good price for Zurich to Maldives?
Only slightly. The seasonal median is around $720 round-trip and this fare is 16% under it. 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 Zurich to Maldives?
Across 6 months of cached-fare history, Mar 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 ZRH → 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, Mar comes out lowest on this route. Our guide Why flight prices change covers what does move a fare.
Are there nonstop flights from Zurich to Maldives?
The current cheapest fares involve a connection, ticketed under Air India. 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.
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