Route brief · HOU → CMB
Houston → Colombo
$1,371
round-trip · too little price history on this route to compare
Feb 19 '27 – Mar 6 '27 · 15 nights
American2 stops
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.
Best time to be in Colombo: Dec–Mar. Fare history for this route is still thin, so we make no seasonal call yet.
The cheapest itinerary we are tracking makes 2 stops and takes about 20.5 hours outbound, on a 15-night trip — ticketed under American, which on a connecting fare need not operate every leg. At $1,371 for 15,904 km each way, that works out to about $43 per 1,000 km flown. That is about the $40 typical of ultra-long-haul fares here. Across the 11 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Colombo, this fare ranks 9th — 2.1× the $660 we hold from New York. For context, the middle fare among the 23 routes of similar length we watch out of Houston is $1,084. We have 1 month of cached prices for this route so far — not enough to call a fare cheap or expensive, so we publish the price without a percentage.
Route facts
- Airports
- Bush (IAH) · Hobby (HOU) ↔ Bandaranaike (CMB)
- Flight time
- ~20.5 hours outbound
- Distance
- ~15,904 km each way
- Airlines on the board
- American
- Itineraries
- Connections on current fares
- Best months to visit
- Dec–Mar
HOU → CMB, answered.
How far in advance should I book HOU → 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We do not publish a number for this, because we cannot measure it yet.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. See /guides/what-moves-a-flight-price/ for the levers we can measure.
Are there nonstop flights from Houston to Colombo?
The current cheapest fares involve a connection, ticketed under American. 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 August 23). 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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