Great1 stop · 7h
DEL to KULMalaysia
Kuala Lumpur
$266
usually $390
−32%
Most monthly lows $302–$446. Cheaper than every other month on record (5).
Flights · DEL → CMB
Delhi to Colombo
Best fare, round trip
$312
−8%
below its usual $340
you keep $28
Found
- Depart
- Sun 1 Nov
- Return
- Wed 11 Nov
- Stay
- 10 nights
- Flight
- Nonstop · 3.5h
- Airline
IndiGo
Most of this route’s monthly lows fall between $327 and $343. The drop beats 15% of measured fares on the board, over 8 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 $312 and peak in December near $408, 31% dearer, across the 8 months we track. The cheapest itinerary we are tracking flies IndiGo nonstop and takes about 3.5 hours outbound, on a 10-night trip. At $312 for 2,427 km each way, that works out to about $64 per 1,000 km flown. That is above the $41 per 1,000 km typical of short-haul fares here. Across the 4 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Colombo, this fare ranks 3rd — 48% above the $211 from Kuala Lumpur. That puts it in the cheaper half of the 7 routes of similar length we watch out of Delhi, where the middle fare is $312. The best time to be in Colombo: Dec–Mar.
Cheapest day in the next 4 months: 1 Nov, $312
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The median cached fare across this calendar is 7% higher than when tracking began on 8 Aug — $365 then versus $389 now, across 24 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 $299, on 20 Oct.
October 2026
17Sunday 18 October: $354, below the usual price. Compare fares from this day.Monday 19 October: $344, below the usual price. Compare fares from this day.Tuesday 20 October: $366, around the usual price. Compare fares from this day.Wednesday 21 October: $334, below the usual price. Compare fares from this day.Thursday 22 October: $391, around the usual price. Compare fares from this day.Friday 23 October: $346, below the usual price. Compare fares from this day.2425Monday 26 October: $345, below the usual price. Compare fares from this day.Tuesday 27 October: $352, below the usual price. Compare fares from this day.28Thursday 29 October: $352, below the usual price. Compare fares from this day.30Saturday 31 October: $327, below the usual price. Compare fares from this day.
November 2026
Sunday 1 November: $312, the cheapest day in view. Compare fares from this day.234Thursday 5 November: $369, around the usual price. Compare fares from this day.Friday 6 November: $392, around the usual price. Compare fares from this day.7Sunday 8 November: $417, around the usual price. Compare fares from this day.Monday 9 November: $484, above the usual price. Compare fares from this day.1011Thursday 12 November: $363, around the usual price. Compare fares from this day.13Saturday 14 November: $372, around the usual price. Compare fares from this day.151617Wednesday 18 November: $331, below the usual price. Compare fares from this day.19202122Monday 23 November: $329, below the usual price. Compare fares from this day.24252627Saturday 28 November: $438, above the usual price. Compare fares from this day.2930
December 2026
12Thursday 3 December: $413, around the usual price. Compare fares from this day.Friday 4 December: $458, above the usual price. Compare fares from this day.Saturday 5 December: $453, above the usual price. Compare fares from this day.Sunday 6 December: $421, around the usual price. Compare fares from this day.7891011Saturday 12 December: $431, above the usual price. Compare fares from this day.1314Tuesday 15 December: $408, around the usual price. Compare fares from this day.1617Friday 18 December: $493, above the usual price. Compare fares from this day.Saturday 19 December: $461, above the usual price. Compare fares from this day.20Monday 21 December: $417, around the usual price. Compare fares from this day.Tuesday 22 December: $563, above the usual price. Compare fares from this day.23Thursday 24 December: $518, above the usual price. Compare fares from this day.Friday 25 December: $486, above the usual price. Compare fares from this day.Saturday 26 December: $485, above the usual price. Compare fares from this day.Sunday 27 December: $428, above the usual price. Compare fares from this day.Monday 28 December: $453, above the usual price. Compare fares from this day.Tuesday 29 December: $414, around the usual price. Compare fares from this day.Wednesday 30 December: $455, above the usual price. Compare fares from this day.Thursday 31 December: $427, above the usual price. Compare fares from this day.
January 2027
Friday 1 January: $377, around the usual price. Compare fares from this day.Saturday 2 January: $413, around the usual price. Compare fares from this day.Sunday 3 January: $377, around the usual price. Compare fares from this day.Monday 4 January: $357, below the usual price. Compare fares from this day.Tuesday 5 January: $391, around the usual price. Compare fares from this day.6Thursday 7 January: $344, below the usual price. Compare fares from this day.8910Monday 11 January: $327, below the usual price. Compare fares from this day.Tuesday 12 January: $387, around the usual price. Compare fares from this day.13Thursday 14 January: $379, around the usual price. Compare fares from this day.15Saturday 16 January: $365, around the usual price. Compare fares from this day.1718Tuesday 19 January: $363, around the usual price. Compare fares from this day.202122Saturday 23 January: $351, below the usual price. Compare fares from this day.2425262728293031
CheapestBelow usualUsualAbove usualCached fares · checked 17 Oct 2026 · bands from 160 tracked fares
Cheapest in Nov, around $312
8% below the $340 typical fare
$327Oct, around the usual price. Compare October fares.$312Nov, the cheapest month. Compare November fares.$408Dec, above the usual price. Compare December fares.$327Jan ’27, around the usual price. Compare January fares.$349Feb, around the usual price. Compare February fares.$321Mar, below the usual price. Compare March fares.$343Apr, around the usual price. Compare April fares.$340Jul, around the usual price. Compare July fares.
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Cheapest round-trip fare found each month, Delhi to Colombo, from cached prices.
Route facts
- Airports
- Indira Gandhi (DEL) ↔ Bandaranaike (CMB)
- Flight time
- ≈3.5 hours outbound
- Distance
- ≈2,427 km each way
- Typical price
- $340 round-trip (seasonal median)
- Airlines on the board
- IndiGo
- Itineraries
- Nonstop available
- Best months to visit
- Dec–Mar
Good to know
DEL → CMB, answered.
Is $312 a good price for Delhi to Colombo?
Only slightly. The seasonal median is around $340 round-trip and this fare is 8% 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 Delhi to Colombo?
Across 8 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 DEL → 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 8 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 Delhi to Colombo?
Yes — the current board includes nonstop fares (IndiGo). The outbound leg runs around 3.5 hours.
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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