Cape Town (CPT) to Malé (MLE): 4,439 miles (7,144 km) great-circle, about 9h 25m nonstop by our estimate. Cheapest fare observed: $1167 round-trip on Emirates, with 3 stops, departing June 22, 2026.
$1167 round-trip, Emirates EK771, departing 2026-06-22 at 18:25, returning 2026-06-29. The recorded itinerary left on a Monday, returning on a Monday 7 nights later; the fare was observed 58 days before departure. "Book this flight" opens Kiwi.com with the same airline and dates.
At $1167, it ranked 28th of the 30 round-trip fares we recorded from CPT (median $794). That is 26.3 cents per great-circle mile (round-trip price over one-way distance), close to the CPT median of 28.3 cents across 30 round-trip routes.
Routes from CPT of similar length: Buenos Aires (4,279 mi) at $1454 and Dubai (4,750 mi) at $857.
Emirates had the cheapest fare on 4 of 30 CPT routes. It is the 14th longest of the 30 routes we track from CPT.
Of 10 departure airports with a fare to Malé, Cape Town (CPT) ranked 9th at $1167. Lowest: $265 from Bangalore (BLR); highest: $1804 from Cancun (CUN); 1 nonstop. Cheapest-fare airlines (routes): SriLankan Airlines (3), Qatar (2), airline OQ (1), American Airlines (1), Emirates (1) and Etihad (1), plus 1 more.
Travelpayouts fares (cheapest per route, observed April 25, 2026); OurAirports coordinates and elevations; IANA zones Africa/Johannesburg, Indian/Maldives; flight time is our estimate.