Route brief · SIN → CMB
Singapore → Colombo
$378
−6% vs typical
seasonal median $400 · difference $22
Jan 12 '27 – Jan 30 '27 · 18 nights
Vietnam Airlines1 stop
- Usual monthly lows
- $392–$399
- Board rank
- Stronger than 8%
- 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, Jan is the cheapest for SIN → CMB. Best time to be there: Dec–Mar.
Fares on this route stay within about $36 across the 4 months we track — season matters less here than timing the drop. The cheapest itinerary we are tracking makes one stop and takes about 7.5 hours outbound, on a 18-night trip — ticketed under Vietnam Airlines, which on a connecting fare need not operate every leg. At $378 for 2,729 km each way, that works out to about $69 per 1,000 km flown. That is above the $39 typical of medium-haul fares here. Across the 7 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Colombo, this fare ranks 6th — 55% above the $244 from Kuala Lumpur. For context, the middle fare among the 6 routes of similar length we watch out of Singapore is $259.
Cheapest in Jan · around $378
6% below the $400 typical fare
Cheapest round-trip fare found per month · Singapore → Colombo · cached-price history
Route facts
- Airports
- Changi (SIN) ↔ Bandaranaike (CMB)
- Flight time
- ~7.5 hours outbound
- Distance
- ~2,729 km each way
- Typical price
- $400 round-trip (seasonal median)
- Airlines on the board
- Vietnam Airlines
- Itineraries
- Connections on current fares
- Best months to visit
- Dec–Mar
SIN → CMB, answered.
Is $378 a good price for Singapore to Colombo?
Only slightly. The seasonal median is around $400 round-trip and this fare is 6% under it, about $22. 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 Singapore to Colombo?
Across 4 months of cached-fare history, Jan 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 SIN → 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We do not publish a number for this, because we cannot measure it yet.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, Jan comes out lowest on this route. See /guides/what-moves-a-flight-price/ for what does move a fare.
Are there nonstop flights from Singapore to Colombo?
The current cheapest fares involve a connection, ticketed under Vietnam Airlines. 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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