Route brief · MAD → CMB
Madrid → Colombo
$664
−8% vs typical
seasonal median $725 · difference $61
Oct 22 – Dec 8 · 47 nights
Pegasus3 stops
- Usual monthly lows
- $698–$731
- Board rank
- Stronger than 14%
- Route sample
- 5 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 5 months, Oct is the cheapest for MAD → CMB. Best time to be there: Dec–Mar.
Fares on this route stay within about $90 across the 5 months we track — season matters less here than timing the drop. The cheapest itinerary we are tracking makes 3 stops and takes about 14 hours outbound, on a 47-night trip — ticketed under Pegasus, which on a connecting fare need not operate every leg. At $664 for 8,964 km each way, that works out to about $37 per 1,000 km flown. That is below the $44 typical of long-haul fares here. Across the 20 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Colombo, this fare ranks 16th — 38% above the $482 from Tokyo. That puts it in the cheaper half of the 35 routes of similar length we watch out of Madrid, where the middle fare is $722.
The 5 days we hold a cached fare for
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The median cached fare across this calendar is unchanged since tracking began on Aug 8 — $731 then versus $731 now, across 6 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 $664, on Oct 22.
These are the only days we have a cached price for on this route so far — not the only days it flies. The search above covers any date.
Cheapest in Oct · around $664
8% below the $725 typical fare
Cheapest round-trip fare found per month · Madrid → Colombo · cached-price history
Route facts
- Airports
- Barajas (MAD) ↔ Bandaranaike (CMB)
- Flight time
- ~14 hours outbound
- Distance
- ~8,964 km each way
- Typical price
- $725 round-trip (seasonal median)
- Airlines on the board
- Pegasus
- Itineraries
- Connections on current fares
- Best months to visit
- Dec–Mar
MAD → CMB, answered.
Is $664 a good price for Madrid to Colombo?
Only slightly. The seasonal median is around $725 round-trip and this fare is 8% under it, about $61. 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 Madrid to Colombo?
Across 5 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 MAD → 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 5 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 Madrid to Colombo?
The current cheapest fares involve a connection, ticketed under Pegasus. 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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