Route brief · KUL → CMB
Kuala Lumpur → Colombo
$244
−2% vs typical
seasonal median $250 · difference $6
Oct 22 – Oct 26 · 4 nights
AirAsiaNonstop
- Usual monthly lows
- $251–$264
- Board rank
- Stronger than 1%
- Route sample
- 7 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 7 months, Oct is the cheapest for KUL → CMB. Best time to be there: Dec–Mar.
Fares bottom out in October around $244 and peak in December near $345 — a $101 spread across the 7 months we track. The cheapest itinerary we are tracking flies AirAsia nonstop and takes about 3.5 hours outbound, on a 4-night trip. At $244 for 2,455 km each way, that works out to about $50 per 1,000 km flown. That is above the $41 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 — 21% under the next one, Delhi. For context, the middle fare among the 6 routes of similar length we watch out of Kuala Lumpur is $176.
Day-level prices for the next 4 months
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The median cached fare across this calendar is 15% lower than when tracking began on Aug 8 — $307 then versus $261 now, across 5 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 $236, on Oct 28.
Cached day-level data for this route is sparse — 15 of 122 days priced, from 36 tracked fares. The days below are shown as found, with no cheapest-day or below-median call.
Cheapest in Oct · around $244
2% below the $250 typical fare
Cheapest round-trip fare found per month · Kuala Lumpur → Colombo · cached-price history
Route facts
- Airports
- Kuala Lumpur (KUL) · Subang (SZB) ↔ Bandaranaike (CMB)
- Flight time
- ~3.5 hours outbound
- Distance
- ~2,455 km each way
- Typical price
- $250 round-trip (seasonal median)
- Airlines on the board
- AirAsia
- Itineraries
- Nonstop available
- Best months to visit
- Dec–Mar
KUL → CMB, answered.
Is $244 a good price for Kuala Lumpur to Colombo?
Only slightly. The seasonal median is around $250 round-trip and this fare is 2% under it, about $6. 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. See /guides/what-moves-a-flight-price/ for 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 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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