Route brief · HKG → CMB
Hong Kong → Colombo
$383
−19% vs typical
seasonal median $470 · difference $87
Nov 16 – Nov 27 · 11 nights
China Eastern1 stop
- Usual monthly lows
- $387–$468
- Board rank
- Stronger than 52%
- Route sample
- 4 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 4 months, Nov is the cheapest for HKG → CMB. Best time to be there: Dec–Mar.
Fares bottom out in November around $383 and peak in January near $470 — a $87 spread across the 4 months we track. The cheapest itinerary we are tracking makes one stop and takes about 8 hours outbound, on a 11-night trip — ticketed under China Eastern, which on a connecting fare need not operate every leg. At $383 for 4,054 km each way, that works out to about $47 per 1,000 km flown. That is above the $39 typical of medium-haul fares here. Across the 6 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Colombo, this fare ranks 4th — 47% above the $261 from Abu Dhabi.
Cheapest in Nov · around $383
19% below the $470 typical fare
Cheapest round-trip fare found per month · Hong Kong → Colombo · cached-price history
Route facts
- Airports
- Hong Kong (HKG) ↔ Bandaranaike (CMB)
- Flight time
- ~8 hours outbound
- Distance
- ~4,054 km each way
- Typical price
- $470 round-trip (seasonal median)
- Airlines on the board
- China Eastern
- Itineraries
- Connections on current fares
- Best months to visit
- Dec–Mar
HKG → CMB, answered.
Is $383 a good price for Hong Kong to Colombo?
Only slightly. The seasonal median is around $470 round-trip and this fare is 19% under it, about $87. 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 Hong Kong to Colombo?
Across 4 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 HKG → 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We do not publish a number for this, because we cannot measure it yet.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 4 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 Hong Kong to Colombo?
The current cheapest fares involve a connection, ticketed under China Eastern. Nonstop options exist on many dates at higher prices — check the live search for your exact dates.
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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