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title: "Doha to Malé (DOH → MLE): distance and flight time · Orbit"
description: "Doha to Malé is 3,312 km (2,058 mi) great circle, an estimated 4h 37m 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/doh-to-mle
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DOH → MLE

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

Hamad to Velana is 3,312 km of great circle — 2,058 mi — and an estimated 4h 37m in the air. Both ends are in Asia.

**Great circle**
3,312 km
2,058 mi

**Estimated in the air**
4h 37m
block time

**Furthest from equator**
25.3°N
at 0% along

**One lap of Earth**
8.3%
of 40,075 km

Of the [292 routes catalogued here](https://orbitflights.app/routes), this is the 164th longest.

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

## What the aircraft actually flies over

From Doha the path crosses United Arab Emirates, then Oman, then 2,459 km of open water.

The furthest the great circle gets from the equator is 25.3°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.

Leaving Doha the aircraft points south-east (131°); it arrives into Malé heading south-east (137°). That is 6° of drift without a single turn — the compass moves because the path is a curve on a sphere, not because the aircraft does.

One economy seat on it is about 491 kg of CO₂e each way, counting non-CO₂ warming.

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

From

DOH

## Hamad

Doha, Qatar · Asia

25.3°N, 51.6°E

[DOH airport →](https://orbitflights.app/airports/doh) [Flights to Doha →](https://orbitflights.app/flights-to/doha)

To

MLE

## Velana

Malé, Maldives · Asia

4.2°N, 73.5°E

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

## Doha to Malé, asked and answered

**How far is Doha to Malé?**
Doha to Malé (DOH to MLE) is 3,312 km, or 2,058 mi, measured as great circle distance between the two airports.

**How long is the flight from Doha to Malé?**
About 4h 37m 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 Doha to Malé flight take?**
The great circle passes over United Arab Emirates, then Oman, then 2,459 km of open water. It reaches 25.3°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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[Download now](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.qwertybit.orbit)

## Nearby routes

[DOH → SEZ Doha to Seychelles 3,357 km](https://orbitflights.app/routes/doh-to-sez) [MUC → DOH Munich to Doha 4,302 km](https://orbitflights.app/routes/muc-to-doh) [BOM → MLE Mumbai to Malé 1,658 km](https://orbitflights.app/routes/bom-to-mle) [CDG → DOH Paris to Doha 4,969 km](https://orbitflights.app/routes/cdg-to-doh) [LHR → DOH London to Doha 5,241 km](https://orbitflights.app/routes/lhr-to-doh) [LHR → MLE London to Malé 8,539 km](https://orbitflights.app/routes/lhr-to-mle)

## 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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