Route brief · AUH → CMB
Abu Dhabi → Colombo
$261
−12% vs typical
seasonal median $295 · difference $34
Nov 14 – Nov 22 · 8 nights
EtihadNonstop
- Usual monthly lows
- $294–$319
- Board rank
- Stronger than 28%
- Route sample
- 7 observed months
Cached fare — the booking search re-prices live before you pay.
Destination briefCMBColomboA working port city that most people leave immediately — for tea country, ruins and the south coast.Best windowDec–MarAirportsBandaranaike (CMB)All routes into ColomboWhen this route gets cheap.
Cached-fare history: across 7 months, Nov is the cheapest for AUH → CMB. Best time to be there: Dec–Mar.
Fares bottom out in November around $261 and peak in March near $565 — a $304 spread across the 7 months we track. The cheapest itinerary we are tracking flies Etihad nonstop and takes about 4.5 hours outbound, on a 8-night trip. At $261 for 3,339 km each way, that works out to about $39 per 1,000 km flown. That is about the $39 typical of medium-haul fares here. Of the 6 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Colombo, this is the cheapest right now — 10% under the next one, Dubai. That puts it in the cheaper half of the 10 routes of similar length we watch out of Abu Dhabi, where the middle fare is $392.
Cheapest day in the next 3 months: Oct 28 · $295 (14% below median)
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The median cached fare across this calendar is 3% lower than when tracking began on Aug 8 — $350 then versus $338 now, across 5 recorded snapshots. This is a calendar-level trend, so an individual deal above can be lower. The lowest single day we have seen here is $284, on Sep 1.
Cheapest in Nov · around $261
12% below the $295 typical fare
Cheapest round-trip fare found per month · Abu Dhabi → Colombo · cached-price history
Route facts
- Airports
- Zayed International (AUH) ↔ Bandaranaike (CMB)
- Flight time
- ~4.5 hours outbound
- Distance
- ~3,339 km each way
- Typical price
- $295 round-trip (seasonal median)
- Airlines on the board
- Etihad
- Itineraries
- Nonstop available
- Best months to visit
- Dec–Mar
AUH → CMB, answered.
Is $261 a good price for Abu Dhabi to Colombo?
Only slightly. The seasonal median is around $295 round-trip and this fare is 12% under it, about $34. We do not call a drop notable until 20%, so this is an ordinary price for the route rather than a reason to hurry.
What is the cheapest month to fly from Abu Dhabi to Colombo?
Across 7 months of cached-fare history, Nov comes out cheapest on this route. The best months to actually be in Colombo are Dec–Mar — when those overlap, that's your window.
How far in advance should I book AUH → Colombo?
We do not publish a number for this, because we cannot measure it yet. Answering it honestly means watching the same departure date on this route over many weeks as it approaches, and that archive is still filling up — so any "book N days ahead" figure here would be borrowed from somewhere else rather than measured. What we can measure is which month is cheap: across 7 months of cached fares, Nov comes out lowest on this route. See /guides/what-moves-a-flight-price/ for what does move a fare.
Are there nonstop flights from Abu Dhabi to Colombo?
Yes — the current board includes nonstop fares (Etihad). The outbound leg runs around 4.5 hours.
Are these prices guaranteed?
No — these are cached fares found on real searches (this one on September 1). Airlines reprice constantly, so the booking search re-checks the live price before you pay. Fresher finds are far more likely to still be available.
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