ExceptionalNonstop · 3h
AMS to AGPSpain
Málaga
$81
usually $185
−56%
Most monthly lows $118–$237. Cheaper than every other month on record (9).
Flights · AMS → CMB
Amsterdam to Colombo
Best fare, round trip
$630
−11%
below its usual $705
you keep $75
Found
- Depart
- Thu 12 Nov
- Return
- Thu 19 Nov
- Stay
- 7 nights
- Flight
- 1 stop · 11h
- Airline
Etihad
Most of this route’s monthly lows fall between $702 and $911. The drop beats 25% of measured fares on the board, over 7 observed months.
Cached fare — the booking search re-prices live before you pay.
Sri LankaColomboA working port city that most people leave immediately — for tea country, ruins and the south coast.Best windowDec–MarAirportsBandaranaike (CMB)Every route into ColomboFare seasonality
When this route gets cheap.
Fares bottom out in November around $630 and peak in August near $1,118, 77% dearer, across the 7 months we track. The cheapest itinerary we are tracking makes one stop and takes about 11 hours outbound, on a 7-night trip — ticketed under Etihad, which on a connecting fare need not operate every leg. At $630 for 8,379 km each way, that works out to about $38 per 1,000 km flown. That is below the $44 per 1,000 km typical of long-haul fares here. Across the 21 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Colombo, this fare ranks 12th — 22% above the $518 from Milan. That puts it in the cheaper half of the 37 routes of similar length we watch out of Amsterdam, where the middle fare is $703. The best time to be in Colombo: Dec–Mar.
Day-level prices for the next 4 months
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The median cached fare across this calendar is unchanged since tracking began on 8 Aug — $727 then versus $725 now, across 21 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 $593, on 12 Nov.
Cached day-level data for this route is sparse — 16 of 107 days priced, from 74 tracked fares. The days below are shown as found, with no cheapest-day or below-median call.
October 2026
November 2026
Sunday 1 November: $735. Compare fares from this day.Monday 2 November: $748. Compare fares from this day.34567891011Thursday 12 November: $630. Compare fares from this day.Friday 13 November: $677. Compare fares from this day.1415Monday 16 November: $700. Compare fares from this day.1718192021222324252627282930
December 2026
January 2027
Friday 1 January: $981. Compare fares from this day.234567891011121314Friday 15 January: $651. Compare fares from this day.161718192021222324252627Thursday 28 January: $686. Compare fares from this day.293031
Cached fares · checked 17 Oct 2026
Cheapest in Nov, around $630
11% below the $705 typical fare
$707Oct, around the usual price. Compare October fares.$630Nov, the cheapest month. Compare November fares.$702Dec, around the usual price. Compare December fares.$651Jan ’27, below the usual price. Compare January fares.$877Mar, above the usual price. Compare March fares.$911Apr, above the usual price. Compare April fares.$1118Aug, above the usual price. Compare August fares.
CheapestBelow usualUsualAbove usualPress a month to compare its fares
Cheapest round-trip fare found each month, Amsterdam to Colombo, from cached prices.
Route facts
- Airports
- Schiphol (AMS) ↔ Bandaranaike (CMB)
- Flight time
- ≈11 hours outbound
- Distance
- ≈8,379 km each way
- Typical price
- $705 round-trip (seasonal median)
- Airlines on the board
- Etihad
- Itineraries
- Connections on current fares
- Best months to visit
- Dec–Mar
Good to know
AMS → CMB, answered.
Is $630 a good price for Amsterdam to Colombo?
Only slightly. The seasonal median is around $705 round-trip and this fare is 11% under it. 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 Amsterdam 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 AMS → 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. Our guide Why flight prices change covers what does move a fare.
Are there nonstop flights from Amsterdam to Colombo?
The current cheapest fares involve a connection, ticketed under Etihad. We hold no nonstop fare on this route right now, which does not mean none flies — search your exact dates to see what does.
Are these prices guaranteed?
No — these are cached fares found on real searches (this one on 17 October). 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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