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title: "Mumbai to Malé (BOM → MLE): distance and flight time · Orbit"
description: "Mumbai to Malé is 1,658 km (1,030 mi) great circle, an estimated 2h 34m in the air. The route, what it flies over, and why the short way is not the straight line on a map."
url: https://orbitflights.app/routes/bom-to-mle
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BOM → MLE

# Mumbai to Malé: distance, flight time and the route it really takes

Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj to Velana is 1,658 km of great circle — 1,030 mi — and an estimated 2h 34m in the air. Both ends are in Asia.

**Great circle**
1,658 km
1,030 mi

**Estimated in the air**
2h 34m
block time

**Furthest from equator**
19.1°N
at 0% along

**One lap of Earth**
4.1%
of 40,075 km

Of the [292 routes catalogued here](https://orbitflights.app/routes), this is the 216th longest.

The Mumbai to Malé route drawn as a great circle arc on a globe

## What the aircraft actually flies over

From Mumbai the path crosses 1,650 km of open water.

The furthest the great circle gets from the equator is 19.1°N, 0% of the way along.

Holding a single compass bearing the whole way would cover almost exactly the same ground, so on this route the flat map and the globe agree.

The heading barely moves: south out of Mumbai, south into Malé. Over this distance the curve has too little room to bend the compass.

One economy seat on it is about 246 kg of CO₂e each way, counting non-CO₂ warming.

[BOM–MLE carbon footprint →](https://orbitflights.app/tools/flight-carbon-calculator?from=BOM&to=MLE) [Map this route →](https://orbitflights.app/tools/flight-route-map?r=BOM-MLE)

From

BOM

## Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj

Mumbai, India · Asia

19.1°N, 72.9°E

[BOM airport →](https://orbitflights.app/airports/bom)

To

MLE

## Velana

Malé, Maldives · Asia

4.2°N, 73.5°E

[MLE airport →](https://orbitflights.app/airports/mle)

## Mumbai to Malé, asked and answered

**How far is Mumbai to Malé?**
Mumbai to Malé (BOM to MLE) is 1,658 km, or 1,030 mi, measured as great circle distance between the two airports.

**How long is the flight from Mumbai to Malé?**
About 2h 34m in the air. That is an estimate from the distance at a typical airliner block speed, plus half an hour for taxi, climb and descent; published schedules vary with winds and routing.

**What route does a Mumbai to Malé flight take?**
The great circle passes over 1,650 km of open water. It reaches 19.1°N at its furthest from the equator.

## Where these numbers come from

Distances are computed from the two airports’ own coordinates, not looked up from published routes. Times are estimates, not schedules.

[Why the shortest path is a curve →](https://orbitflights.app/blog/great-circle-routes-explained)

## Flown this one?

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## Nearby routes

[BOM → DXB Mumbai to Dubai 1,925 km](https://orbitflights.app/routes/bom-to-dxb) [DEL → BOM Delhi to Mumbai 1,137 km](https://orbitflights.app/routes/del-to-bom) [DOH → MLE Doha to Malé 3,312 km](https://orbitflights.app/routes/doh-to-mle) [LHR → BOM London to Mumbai 7,213 km](https://orbitflights.app/routes/lhr-to-bom) [LHR → MLE London to Malé 8,539 km](https://orbitflights.app/routes/lhr-to-mle) [SIN → DPS Singapore to Bali 1,672 km](https://orbitflights.app/routes/sin-to-dps)

## Further reading

[How many miles do you have to fly around the world?](https://orbitflights.app/blog/how-many-miles-to-fly-around-the-world) [What is on the exact opposite side of the world?](https://orbitflights.app/blog/opposite-side-of-the-world) [What's actually worth counting in a flight log](https://orbitflights.app/blog/what-is-worth-counting-in-a-flight-log)

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