Route brief · SEL → CMB
Seoul → Colombo
$447
round-trip · too little price history on this route to compare
Nov 8 – Nov 15 · 7 nights
China Eastern2 stops
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.
Best time to be in Colombo: Dec–Mar. Fare history for this route is still thin, so we make no seasonal call yet.
The cheapest itinerary we are tracking makes 2 stops and takes about 10.5 hours outbound, on a 7-night trip — ticketed under China Eastern, which on a connecting fare need not operate every leg. At $447 for 5,837 km each way, that works out to about $38 per 1,000 km flown. That is about the $39 typical of medium-haul fares here. Across the 6 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Colombo, this fare ranks 2nd — 26% above the $355 from Shanghai. That puts it in the cheaper half of the 10 routes of similar length we watch out of Seoul, where the middle fare is $447. We have 3 months 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.
The 2 days we hold a cached fare for
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The median cached fare across this calendar is 29% higher than when tracking began on Aug 8 — $465 then versus $599 now, across 4 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 $449, on Nov 5.
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.
Route facts
- Airports
- Incheon (ICN) · Gimpo (GMP) ↔ Bandaranaike (CMB)
- Flight time
- ~10.5 hours outbound
- Distance
- ~5,837 km each way
- Airlines on the board
- China Eastern
- Itineraries
- Connections on current fares
- Best months to visit
- Dec–Mar
SEL → CMB, answered.
How far in advance should I book SEL → 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We do not publish a number for this, because we cannot measure it yet.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. See /guides/what-moves-a-flight-price/ for the levers we can measure.
Are there nonstop flights from Seoul to Colombo?
The current cheapest fares involve a connection, ticketed under China Eastern. 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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