ExceptionalNonstop · 1.5h
PAR to VCEItaly
Venice
$38
usually $110
−65%
Most monthly lows $53–$112. Cheaper than every other month on record (7).
Flights · PAR → CMB
Paris to Colombo
Best fare, round trip
$605
−7%
below its usual $650
you keep $45
Found
- Depart
- Fri 5 Mar
- Return
- Thu 18 Mar
- Stay
- 13 nights
- Flight
- 1 stop · 13h
- Airline
Air India
Most of this route’s monthly lows fall between $625 and $659. The drop beats 12% of measured fares on the board, over 9 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 March around $605 and peak in August near $959, 59% dearer, across the 9 months we track. The cheapest itinerary we are tracking makes one stop and takes about 13 hours outbound, on a 13-night trip — ticketed under Air India, which on a connecting fare need not operate every leg. At $605 for 8,514 km each way, that works out to about $36 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 9th — 17% above the $518 from Milan. That puts it in the cheaper half of the 37 routes of similar length we watch out of Paris, where the middle fare is $696. 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 11% lower than when tracking began on 8 Aug — $768 then versus $687 now, across 18 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 2 Sep.
Cached day-level data for this route is sparse — 15 of 109 days priced, from 72 tracked fares. The days below are shown as found, with no cheapest-day or below-median call.
October 2026
November 2026
12Tuesday 3 November: $660. Compare fares from this day.Wednesday 4 November: $625. Compare fares from this day.56789101112Friday 13 November: $659. Compare fares from this day.1415161718192021222324252627282930
December 2026
12345Sunday 6 December: $651. Compare fares from this day.789101112131415161718Saturday 19 December: $1.3k. Compare fares from this day.202122Wednesday 23 December: $946. Compare fares from this day.2425Saturday 26 December: $945. Compare fares from this day.27282930Thursday 31 December: $790. Compare fares from this day.
January 2027
Friday 1 January: $666. Compare fares from this day.Saturday 2 January: $666. Compare fares from this day.3456Thursday 7 January: $697. Compare fares from this day.Friday 8 January: $687. Compare fares from this day.9101112131415161718Tuesday 19 January: $689. Compare fares from this day.202122232425262728293031
Cached fares · checked 15 Oct 2026
Cheapest in Mar, around $605
7% below the $650 typical fare
$625Oct, around the usual price. Compare October fares.$625Nov, around the usual price. Compare November fares.$651Dec, around the usual price. Compare December fares.$659Jan ’27, around the usual price. Compare January fares.$625Feb, around the usual price. Compare February fares.$605Mar, the cheapest month. Compare March fares.$752Apr, above the usual price. Compare April fares.$655May, around the usual price. Compare May fares.$959Aug, above the usual price. Compare August fares.
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Cheapest round-trip fare found each month, Paris to Colombo, from cached prices.
Route facts
- Airports
- Charles de Gaulle (CDG) · Orly (ORY) ↔ Bandaranaike (CMB)
- Flight time
- ≈13 hours outbound
- Distance
- ≈8,514 km each way
- Typical price
- $650 round-trip (seasonal median)
- Airlines on the board
- Air India
- Itineraries
- Connections on current fares
- Best months to visit
- Dec–Mar
Good to know
PAR → CMB, answered.
Is $605 a good price for Paris to Colombo?
Only slightly. The seasonal median is around $650 round-trip and this fare is 7% 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 Paris to Colombo?
Across 9 months of cached-fare history, Mar 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, Mar comes out lowest on this route. Our guide Why flight prices change covers what does move a fare.
Are there nonstop flights from Paris to Colombo?
The current cheapest fares involve a connection, ticketed under Air India. 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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