ExceptionalNonstop · 1.5h
SFO to LASUnited States
Las Vegas
$61
usually $155
−61%
Most monthly lows $130–$295. Cheaper than every other month on record (5).
Flights · SFO → CMB
San Francisco to Colombo
Best fare, round trip
$792
Too little price history on this route to compare — the fare is shown as found.
Found
- Depart
- Sat 14 Nov
- Return
- Sun 22 Nov
- Stay
- 8 nights
- Flight
- 1 stop · 21h
- Airline
China Eastern
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 one stop and takes about 21 hours outbound, on a 8-night trip — ticketed under China Eastern, which on a connecting fare need not operate every leg. At $792 for 14,535 km each way, that works out to about $27 per 1,000 km flown. That is well under the $42 per 1,000 km that ultra-long-haul fares on this board typically run. Across the 9 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Colombo, this fare ranks 2nd — 2% above the $774 from Toronto. That puts it in the cheaper half of the 27 routes of similar length we watch out of San Francisco, where the middle fare is $887. 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 9% higher than when tracking began on 9 Aug — $1,003 then versus $1,094 now, across 8 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 $792, on 14 Nov.
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 13 Oct 2026
We are still collecting this route's months — 1 month of cached prices so far, too few to chart.
Route facts
- Airports
- SFO · Oakland (OAK) · San José (SJC) ↔ Bandaranaike (CMB)
- Flight time
- ≈21 hours outbound
- Distance
- ≈14,535 km each way
- Airlines on the board
- China Eastern
- Itineraries
- Connections on current fares
- Best months to visit
- Dec–Mar
Good to know
SF → CMB, answered.
How far in advance should I book SF → 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 San Francisco to Colombo?
The current cheapest fares involve a connection, ticketed under China Eastern. 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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