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Flights from Glasgow to Mauritius
Everything worth knowing before you book this route — how far it is, how long you will be in the air, whether a direct flight exists from Glasgow, and what the fare is doing.
How long is the flight from Glasgow to Mauritius?
The great-circle distance from Glasgow Airport (GLA) to Mauritius is 6,367 miles. Flown nonstop, that works out at roughly 12h 22m in the air, including taxi time at both ends.
Expect the return leg to differ. Flying eastbound on the way out, you are pushed along by the jet stream, so the outbound and inbound block times on this route differ by up to 45 minutes. Airlines schedule for it — it is not a delay.
Can you fly Glasgow to Mauritius direct?
No nonstop from Glasgow
The nearest direct flights leave from London Gatwick (about 350 miles away). From Glasgow itself it is a one-stop trip. The connection is worth choosing rather than accepting: a European or Gulf hub usually beats backtracking to Heathrow, because it keeps you out of a domestic leg and a terminal change, and it is frequently the cheaper ticket as well.
What it costs from Glasgow
The cheapest return we have measured from Glasgow to Mauritius is £846, flying out 19 Nov and back 3 Dec. That is this airport's own best week, found by searching it separately from the other nine — every UK airport wins on a different date.
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Mauritius is in the southern hemisphere and its seasons are inverted, so its cool dry half falls across the British summer and its warm wet half across our winter. The island is small and mountainous, which gives it more local variation than its size suggests: the central plateau is consistently cooler and wetter than the coast, and the east is windier than the west because the south-east trades hit it first. The lagoon temperature barely moves at all.
Seasons, prices and the full Mauritius guideLanding in Mauritius
You lose 4 hours flying out. Eastbound is the harder direction to adjust to, because you are asking your body to fall asleep earlier than it wants to. Book an arrival that lets you stay up until local evening rather than napping.
| Airport | MRU, Sir Seewoosagur Ramgoolam International, in the south-east of the island — which matters, because the resorts are mostly in the north and west and the transfer is forty-five minutes to an hour. Grand Baie is the far corner from it. There is an express bus to Port Louis, but almost everyone takes a car. |
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| Currency | Mauritian rupee. Cards work in hotels, supermarkets and larger restaurants; buses, markets, street food and small shops want cash. ATMs are widespread and reliable. Euros and sterling are quoted for excursions but you will get a poor rate paying in them. |
| Language | Mauritian Creole is what everyone speaks; English is the language of government and law, French of the media and much of business. Signage is mostly English and menus mostly French. No barrier at all for a British visitor, and this is one of the easiest places on the list to be understood. |
Where to stay in Mauritius
Most visitors stay in Grand Baie or Flic-en-Flac. The list below is filtered to places rated 9+ by guests and sorted by price, with dates already filled in — change them for your own trip.
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