ExceptionalNonstop · 3.5h
LON to RAKMorocco
Marrakech
$48
usually $130
−63%
Most monthly lows $74–$164. Cheaper than every other month on record (6).
Flights · LON → CMB
London to Colombo
Best fare, round trip
$593
−14%
below its usual $690
you keep $97
Found
- Depart
- Sun 17 Jan
- Return
- Mon 25 Jan
- Stay
- 8 nights
- Flight
- 1 stop · 11.5h
- Airline
Air Arabia
Most of this route’s monthly lows fall between $623 and $709. The drop beats 36% of measured fares on the board, over 8 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 January around $593 and peak in October near $808, 36% dearer, across the 8 months we track. The cheapest itinerary we are tracking makes one stop and takes about 11.5 hours outbound, on a 8-night trip — ticketed under Air Arabia, which on a connecting fare need not operate every leg. At $593 for 8,712 km each way, that works out to about $34 per 1,000 km flown. That is below the $44 per 1,000 km typical of long-haul fares here. Across the 21 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Colombo, this fare ranks 7th — 14% above the $518 from Milan. That puts it in the cheaper half of the 39 routes of similar length we watch out of London, where the middle fare is $647. 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 1% higher than when tracking began on 8 Aug — $761 then versus $770 now, across 19 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 $576, on 5 Oct.
Cached day-level data for this route is sparse — 18 of 109 days priced, from 88 tracked fares. The days below are shown as found, with no cheapest-day or below-median call.
October 2026
November 2026
123456789Tuesday 10 November: $601. Compare fares from this day.111213Saturday 14 November: $680. Compare fares from this day.15161718192021222324252627Saturday 28 November: $667. Compare fares from this day.2930
December 2026
1234Saturday 5 December: $734. Compare fares from this day.67Tuesday 8 December: $740. Compare fares from this day.910111213Monday 14 December: $753. Compare fares from this day.151617181920212223Thursday 24 December: $881. Compare fares from this day.Friday 25 December: $1.2k. Compare fares from this day.26272829Wednesday 30 December: $881. Compare fares from this day.Thursday 31 December: $709. Compare fares from this day.
January 2027
Cached fares · checked 15 Oct 2026
Cheapest in Jan, around $593
14% below the $690 typical fare
$808Oct, above the usual price. Compare October fares.$601Nov, below the usual price. Compare November fares.$709Dec, around the usual price. Compare December fares.$593Jan ’27, the cheapest month. Compare January fares.$688Feb, around the usual price. Compare February fares.$769Mar, above the usual price. Compare March fares.$623Apr, below the usual price. Compare April fares.$627May, below the usual price. Compare May fares.
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Cheapest round-trip fare found each month, London to Colombo, from cached prices.
Route facts
- Airports
- Heathrow (LHR) · Gatwick (LGW) · Stansted (STN) · Luton (LTN) ↔ Bandaranaike (CMB)
- Flight time
- ≈11.5 hours outbound
- Distance
- ≈8,712 km each way
- Typical price
- $690 round-trip (seasonal median)
- Airlines on the board
- Air Arabia
- Itineraries
- Connections on current fares
- Best months to visit
- Dec–Mar
Good to know
LON → CMB, answered.
Is $593 a good price for London to Colombo?
Only slightly. The seasonal median is around $690 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 London to Colombo?
Across 8 months of cached-fare history, Jan 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 LON → 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 8 months of cached fares, Jan comes out lowest on this route. Our guide Why flight prices change covers what does move a fare.
Are there nonstop flights from London to Colombo?
The current cheapest fares involve a connection, ticketed under Air Arabia. 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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