GoodNonstop · 4h
KUL to HKG
Hong Kong
$181
usually $255
−29%
Most monthly lows $189–$264. Cheaper than every other month on record (5).
Flights · KUL → CMB
Kuala Lumpur to Colombo
Best fare, round trip
$211
−14%
below its usual $245
you keep $34
Found
- Depart
- Thu 29 Oct
- Return
- Wed 4 Nov
- Stay
- 6 nights
- Flight
- Nonstop · 3.5h
- Airline
AirAsia
Most of this route’s monthly lows fall between $239 and $251. The drop beats 36% 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 October around $211 and peak in December near $289, 37% dearer, across the 7 months we track. The cheapest itinerary we are tracking flies AirAsia nonstop and takes about 3.5 hours outbound, on a 6-night trip. At $211 for 2,455 km each way, that works out to about $43 per 1,000 km flown. That is about the $41 per 1,000 km typical of short-haul fares here. Of the 4 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Colombo, this is the cheapest right now — 32% under the next one, Bangkok. For context, the middle fare among the 6 routes of similar length we watch out of Kuala Lumpur is $183. 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 25% lower than when tracking began on 8 Aug — $307 then versus $229 now, across 17 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 $211, on 29 Oct.
Cached day-level data for this route is sparse — 19 of 111 days priced, from 90 tracked fares. The days below are shown as found, with no cheapest-day or below-median call.
October 2026
November 2026
1234Thursday 5 November: $216. Compare fares from this day.67Sunday 8 November: $216. Compare fares from this day.9Tuesday 10 November: $217. Compare fares from this day.Wednesday 11 November: $216. Compare fares from this day.1213141516Tuesday 17 November: $216. Compare fares from this day.18192021Sunday 22 November: $224. Compare fares from this day.Monday 23 November: $215. Compare fares from this day.Tuesday 24 November: $233. Compare fares from this day.Wednesday 25 November: $265. Compare fares from this day.2627282930
December 2026
123456789101112131415161718192021222324Friday 25 December: $391. Compare fares from this day.2627Monday 28 December: $333. Compare fares from this day.293031
January 2027
12Sunday 3 January: $302. Compare fares from this day.4567Friday 8 January: $285. Compare fares from this day.Saturday 9 January: $256. Compare fares from this day.101112131415161718192021222324252627Thursday 28 January: $259. Compare fares from this day.Friday 29 January: $275. Compare fares from this day.3031
Cached fares · checked 13 Oct 2026
Cheapest in Oct, around $211
14% below the $245 typical fare
$211Oct, the cheapest month. Compare October fares.$212Nov, below the usual price. Compare November fares.$289Dec, above the usual price. Compare December fares.$246Jan ’27, around the usual price. Compare January fares.$246Feb, around the usual price. Compare February fares.$239Mar, around the usual price. Compare March fares.$251Apr, around the usual price. Compare April fares.
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Cheapest round-trip fare found each month, Kuala Lumpur to Colombo, from cached prices.
Route facts
- Airports
- Kuala Lumpur (KUL) · Subang (SZB) ↔ Bandaranaike (CMB)
- Flight time
- ≈3.5 hours outbound
- Distance
- ≈2,455 km each way
- Typical price
- $245 round-trip (seasonal median)
- Airlines on the board
- AirAsia
- Itineraries
- Nonstop available
- Best months to visit
- Dec–Mar
Good to know
KUL → CMB, answered.
Is $211 a good price for Kuala Lumpur to Colombo?
Only slightly. The seasonal median is around $245 round-trip and this fare is 14% 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 Kuala Lumpur to Colombo?
Across 7 months of cached-fare history, Oct 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 KUL → 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, Oct comes out lowest on this route. Our guide Why flight prices change covers what does move a fare.
Are there nonstop flights from Kuala Lumpur to Colombo?
Yes — the current board includes nonstop fares (AirAsia). 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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