Flying from Dubai to Mumbai?
Add a departure date and see which side gets the sun.
Flying from Dubai to Mumbai?
Add a departure date and see which side gets the sun.
Flying from Dubai to Mumbai?
Add a departure date and see which side gets the sun.
Dubai → Mumbai
A medium flight from United Arab Emirates to India. Mumbai is 1½ hours ahead. Note the unusual time zone offset when adjusting your watch.
This route crosses the Tropic of Cancer, the northernmost latitude where the sun passes directly overhead.
The city that rose from the desert
Dubai is a coastal city on the Persian Gulf that grew in a few decades into a dense spine of towers strung along a single highway. Most of what visitors come for sits near the water or that main road: the beaches, the malls, Dubai Creek, the old trading waterway, and the tallest building in the world. It is hot for much of the year and built around cars and taxis, though a driverless metro runs the length of the city. Distances look short on a map but stretch out in the heat.
Nearby airports
| 116 km / 72 mi |
Surrounding hubs
| 347 km / 216 mi | |
| 378 km / 235 mi | |
| 487 km / 303 mi |
The city of seven islands
Mumbai was built by joining seven islands into a single peninsula on India's west coast, and that reclaimed, narrow geography still shapes the city: it runs in a long north-south strip with the sea on multiple sides. Mumbai's suburban rail network is the backbone of daily life, carrying millions a day, and a metro line opened directly into Terminal 2 in 2024, giving the airport its first rail link. Monsoon season, roughly June to September, brings intense rain that can flood low-lying streets and slow the entire city. It is India's financial and entertainment capital, home to Bollywood, and one of the most densely populated cities on Earth.
Surrounding hubs
| 1,137 km / 706 mi | |
| 1,526 km / 948 mi | |
| 1,590 km / 988 mi |
Find out which side of the plane to sit on.
Pick your airports, set your departure time, and you're done.
We calculate the sun's position based on your flight path and departure time, then tell you which side of the plane gets direct sun and which stays shaded. No guessing, just math.
Enter your flight
Pick your departure and arrival airports and set your departure time at the departure airport. FlightSide estimates the duration and you can adjust it if you know the exact schedule.
We track the sun along your route
Your flight path is broken into hundreds of points. At each one we check where the sun is and which side of the plane it faces.
You get a recommendation
Which side of the plane to sit on, left or right, depending on whether you'd rather avoid the sun or enjoy it. The percentages and the map are there if you want to see why.
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Notes from the product.
Small updates, route observations, and clearer explanations for how the app keeps evolving.
Type less, wait less, wonder more
Airport search now understands metro codes and old city names, FlightSide loads noticeably faster, and a new Feeling lucky button chooses a flight for anyone without one in mind.
A closer look at the route, not just the seat
FlightSide now shows the two cities and key details about the flight alongside the seat recommendation: confirm you picked the right airports, read the time change off two clocks, and check the return leg.
It's all about the sun (after all)
Not all sunlight reaches the side windows. FlightSide now weighs the sun’s angle to the cabin and shows twilight along the route.