Route brief · PAR → CMB
Paris → Colombo
$639
−7% vs typical
seasonal median $685 · difference $46
Jun 6 '27 – Jul 4 '27 · 28 nights
Gulf Air1 stop
- Usual monthly lows
- $670–$778
- Board rank
- Stronger than 11%
- Route sample
- 9 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 9 months, Jun is the cheapest for PAR → CMB. Best time to be there: Dec–Mar.
Fares bottom out in June around $639 and peak in July near $1,016 — a $377 spread across the 9 months we track. The cheapest itinerary we are tracking makes one stop and takes about 14.5 hours outbound, on a 28-night trip — ticketed under Gulf Air, which on a connecting fare need not operate every leg. At $639 for 8,514 km each way, that works out to about $38 per 1,000 km flown. That is below the $44 typical of long-haul fares here. Across the 21 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Colombo, this fare ranks 14th — 33% above the $482 from Tokyo. That puts it in the cheaper half of the 36 routes of similar length we watch out of Paris, where the middle fare is $713.
The 6 days we hold a cached fare for
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The median cached fare across this calendar is 2% lower than when tracking began on Aug 8 — $768 then versus $750 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 $599, on Sep 2.
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 Jun · around $639
7% below the $685 typical fare
Cheapest round-trip fare found per month · Paris → Colombo · cached-price history
Route facts
- Airports
- Charles de Gaulle (CDG) · Orly (ORY) ↔ Bandaranaike (CMB)
- Flight time
- ~14.5 hours outbound
- Distance
- ~8,514 km each way
- Typical price
- $685 round-trip (seasonal median)
- Airlines on the board
- Gulf Air
- Itineraries
- Connections on current fares
- Best months to visit
- Dec–Mar
PAR → CMB, answered.
Is $639 a good price for Paris to Colombo?
Only slightly. The seasonal median is around $685 round-trip and this fare is 7% under it, about $46. 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 Paris to Colombo?
Across 9 months of cached-fare history, Jun 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 PAR → 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 9 months of cached fares, Jun comes out lowest on this route. See /guides/what-moves-a-flight-price/ for what does move a fare.
Are there nonstop flights from Paris to Colombo?
The current cheapest fares involve a connection, ticketed under Gulf Air. 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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