ExceptionalNonstop · 2.5h
MIA to SJUPuerto Rico
San Juan
$60
usually $230
−74%
Most monthly lows $103–$231. Cheaper than every other month on record (3).
Flights · MIA → CMB
Miami to Colombo
Best fare, round trip
$2,248
Too little price history on this route to compare — the fare is shown as found.
Found
- Depart
- Thu 17 Dec
- Return
- Sun 10 Jan
- Stay
- 24 nights
- Flight
- 2 stops · 20h
- Airline
SWISS
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.
The cheapest itinerary we are tracking makes 2 stops and takes about 20 hours outbound, on a 24-night trip — ticketed under SWISS, which on a connecting fare need not operate every leg. At $2,248 for 15,789 km each way, that works out to about $71 per 1,000 km flown. That is above the $42 per 1,000 km typical of ultra-long-haul fares here. Across the 9 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Colombo, this fare ranks 8th — 2.9× the $774 we hold from Toronto. For context, the middle fare among the 30 routes of similar length we watch out of Miami is $1,165. 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. Fare history here is still too short to name a cheap season. The best time to be in Colombo: Dec–Mar.
The 2 days we hold a cached fare for
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The median cached fare across this calendar is 14% lower than when tracking began on 8 Aug — $1,535 then versus $1,327 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 $1,207, on 25 Sep.
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.
Cached fares · checked 12 Oct 2026
We are still collecting this route's months — 1 month of cached prices so far, too few to chart.
Route facts
- Airports
- Miami (MIA) · Fort Lauderdale (FLL) ↔ Bandaranaike (CMB)
- Flight time
- ≈20 hours outbound
- Distance
- ≈15,789 km each way
- Airlines on the board
- SWISS
- Itineraries
- Connections on current fares
- Best months to visit
- Dec–Mar
Good to know
MIA → CMB, answered.
How far in advance should I book MIA → 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. Our guide Why flight prices change covers the levers we can measure.
Are there nonstop flights from Miami to Colombo?
The current cheapest fares involve a connection, ticketed under SWISS. 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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