Stansted to Dublin Flight Time, and the Day Hour by Hour
1h 20m flight, no passport queue and a 10km transfer. That's how Tue 17 Nov gives you 9.5 hours in Dublin for £70.85 all in.
The Stansted to Dublin flight time is 1h 20m, and that short hop is why this is the best-value day trip abroad from London. Tue 17 Nov gives you 9.5 hours in the city for £70.85 all in, and here is the whole thing hour by hour so you can see where it goes.
The day, start to finish
- 05:30 ish, Stansted Express from Liverpool Street, 48 minutes, from £9.90
- 07:15, wheels up. Ryanair, direct
- 08:35, lands at Dublin. No passport queue, the Common Travel Area sees to that
- 09:05, in the city. The airport is only 10km out
- 09:19, Trinity College and the Book of Kells, give it an hour
- 10:24, Ha'penny Bridge, five minutes and a photo
- 10:31, Temple Bar, twenty minutes before it gets busy
- 10:58, the GPO on O'Connell Street
- 11:21, Grafton Street, then St Stephen's Green for half an hour
- 18:35, leave the city, 30 minutes back and 90 at the airport
- 20:35, flies
- 21:55, back at Stansted
Why Dublin beats everywhere else from Stansted
Two reasons, and neither of them is the fare. First, there's no immigration on arrival, so you're not losing 20 minutes at a desk like you would in Berlin or Porto. Second, the airport is 10km from the centre, so the transfer is nothing. Those two things together are worth about an hour and a half of city time, which is why 9.5 hours out of a 07:15 flight is even possible.
Daylight on 17 Nov is 8.5 hours, sunrise 07:54 and sunset 16:27, so you get the whole of the light and then a couple of hours of Dublin in the dark, which is arguably when it's at its best.
What it costs, and the cheapest dates
£70.85 covers the flights and what you'll actually spend on the ground. The flight on its own is £32.00 on Tue 17 Nov, and that's the cheapest November date on the board, with Mon 23 Nov at £34.00 and Thu 19 Nov at £35.00 just behind it. Weekends are a different sport, Sun 22 Nov is £160.00.
Fares checked 8 Nov. The whole day puts out about 120kg of CO2e, which we show on every trip because pretending otherwise would be daft.
If you have got longer than nine hours
Phoenix Park is the one most people miss, it's twice the size of Richmond Park and there are fallow deer wandering about in the middle of a capital city. It only works if you're on an early flight back late, which the Tue 17 Nov pairing gives you.
Dublin's the cheapest day trip abroad from most of the UK, not just Stansted, and we've priced every airport's cheapest Dublin day if you're flying from somewhere else. The live version of this one is on the Stansted board.
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