ExceptionalNonstop · 2.5h
FRA to ALCSpain
Alicante
$60
usually $235
−74%
Most monthly lows $146–$236. Cheaper than every other month on record (3).
Flights · FRA → CMB
Frankfurt to Colombo
Best fare, round trip
$602
−19%
below its usual $740
you keep $138
Found
- Depart
- Sun 1 Nov
- Return
- Sat 14 Nov
- Stay
- 13 nights
- Flight
- 1 stop · 13h
- Airline
Air India
Most of this route’s monthly lows fall between $667 and $918. The drop beats 52% 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 $602 and peak in July near $945, 57% dearer, across the 7 months we track. The cheapest itinerary we are tracking makes one stop and takes about 13 hours outbound, on a 13-night trip — ticketed under Air India, which on a connecting fare need not operate every leg. At $602 for 8,086 km each way, that works out to about $37 per 1,000 km flown. That is below the $44 per 1,000 km typical of long-haul fares here. Across the 22 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Colombo, this fare ranks 9th — 20% above the $502 from Istanbul. That puts it in the cheaper half of the 36 routes of similar length we watch out of Frankfurt, where the middle fare is $674. 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 33% higher than when tracking began on 8 Aug — $683 then versus $906 now, across 22 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 9 Jan '27.
Cached day-level data for this route is sparse — 19 of 107 days priced, from 89 tracked fares. The days below are shown as found, with no cheapest-day or below-median call.
October 2026
November 2026
Sunday 1 November: $602. Compare fares from this day.23456Saturday 7 November: $731. Compare fares from this day.89101112131415Monday 16 November: $612. Compare fares from this day.Tuesday 17 November: $607. Compare fares from this day.1819Friday 20 November: $635. Compare fares from this day.Saturday 21 November: $685. Compare fares from this day.222324252627282930
December 2026
12345678910111213141516Thursday 17 December: $915. Compare fares from this day.18Saturday 19 December: $964. Compare fares from this day.20Monday 21 December: $906. Compare fares from this day.Tuesday 22 December: $1k. Compare fares from this day.Wednesday 23 December: $1.1k. Compare fares from this day.Thursday 24 December: $1.1k. Compare fares from this day.Friday 25 December: $1.1k. Compare fares from this day.Saturday 26 December: $1.2k. Compare fares from this day.Sunday 27 December: $1.1k. Compare fares from this day.28Tuesday 29 December: $939. Compare fares from this day.3031
January 2027
12345Wednesday 6 January: $623. Compare fares from this day.78910111213141516171819202122232425262728293031
Cached fares · checked 17 Oct 2026
Cheapest in Nov, around $602
19% below the $740 typical fare
$738Oct, around the usual price. Compare October fares.$602Nov, the cheapest month. Compare November fares.$906Dec, above the usual price. Compare December fares.$623Jan ’27, below the usual price. Compare January fares.$918Mar, above the usual price. Compare March fares.$667Jun, below the usual price. Compare June fares.$945Jul, above the usual price. Compare July fares.
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Cheapest round-trip fare found each month, Frankfurt to Colombo, from cached prices.
Route facts
- Airports
- Frankfurt (FRA) · Hahn (HHN) ↔ Bandaranaike (CMB)
- Flight time
- ≈13 hours outbound
- Distance
- ≈8,086 km each way
- Typical price
- $740 round-trip (seasonal median)
- Airlines on the board
- Air India
- Itineraries
- Connections on current fares
- Best months to visit
- Dec–Mar
Good to know
FRA → CMB, answered.
Is $602 a good price for Frankfurt to Colombo?
Only slightly. The seasonal median is around $740 round-trip and this fare is 19% 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 Frankfurt 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 FRA → 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 Frankfurt to Colombo?
The current cheapest fares involve a connection, ticketed under Air India. 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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