Route brief · OSL → CMB
Oslo → Colombo
$702
−27% vs typical
seasonal median $960 · difference $258
Nov 5 – Nov 15 · 10 nights
Pegasus2 stops
- Usual monthly lows
- $895–$958
- Board rank
- Stronger than 73%
- Route sample
- 4 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 4 months, Nov is the cheapest for OSL → CMB. Best time to be there: Dec–Mar.
Fares bottom out in November around $702 and peak in December near $1,024 — a $322 spread across the 4 months we track. The cheapest itinerary we are tracking makes 2 stops and takes about 13 hours outbound, on a 10-night trip — ticketed under Pegasus, which on a connecting fare need not operate every leg. At $702 for 8,187 km each way, that works out to about $43 per 1,000 km flown. That is about the $44 typical of long-haul fares here. Across the 22 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Colombo, this fare ranks 20th — 47% above the $477 from Istanbul. That puts it in the cheaper half of the 31 routes of similar length we watch out of Oslo, where the middle fare is $826.
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Cheapest in Nov · around $702
27% below the $960 typical fare
Cheapest round-trip fare found per month · Oslo → Colombo · cached-price history
Route facts
- Airports
- Gardermoen (OSL) · Torp (TRF) ↔ Bandaranaike (CMB)
- Flight time
- ~13 hours outbound
- Distance
- ~8,187 km each way
- Typical price
- $960 round-trip (seasonal median)
- Airlines on the board
- Pegasus
- Itineraries
- Connections on current fares
- Best months to visit
- Dec–Mar
OSL → CMB, answered.
Is $702 a good price for Oslo to Colombo?
Yes — the seasonal median for this route is around $960 round-trip. At $702 you're 27% below that, saving about $258, which we rate good for this route.
What is the cheapest month to fly from Oslo to Colombo?
Across 4 months of cached-fare history, Nov 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 OSL → 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We do not publish a number for this, because we cannot measure it yet.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 4 months of cached fares, Nov comes out lowest on this route. See /guides/what-moves-a-flight-price/ for what does move a fare.
Are there nonstop flights from Oslo 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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