Route brief · TYO → CMB
Tokyo → Colombo
$482
−23% vs typical
seasonal median $630 · difference $148
Oct 13 – Oct 26 · 13 nights
Air China2 stops
- Usual monthly lows
- $536–$662
- Board rank
- Stronger than 63%
- Route sample
- 5 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 5 months, Oct is the cheapest for TYO → CMB. Best time to be there: Dec–Mar.
Fares bottom out in October around $482 and peak in December near $788 — a $306 spread across the 5 months we track. The cheapest itinerary we are tracking makes 2 stops and takes about 13 hours outbound, on a 13-night trip — ticketed under Air China, which on a connecting fare need not operate every leg. At $482 for 6,847 km each way, that works out to about $35 per 1,000 km flown. That is below the $44 typical of long-haul fares here. Across the 18 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Colombo, this fare ranks 3rd — 8% above the $447 from Seoul. That puts it in the cheaper half of the 16 routes of similar length we watch out of Tokyo, where the middle fare is $600.
The 5 days we hold a cached fare for
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The median cached fare across this calendar is 15% lower than when tracking began on Aug 8 — $679 then versus $576 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 $473, on Nov 23.
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 Oct · around $482
23% below the $630 typical fare
Cheapest round-trip fare found per month · Tokyo → Colombo · cached-price history
Route facts
- Airports
- Narita (NRT) · Haneda (HND) ↔ Bandaranaike (CMB)
- Flight time
- ~13 hours outbound
- Distance
- ~6,847 km each way
- Typical price
- $630 round-trip (seasonal median)
- Airlines on the board
- Air China
- Itineraries
- Connections on current fares
- Best months to visit
- Dec–Mar
TYO → CMB, answered.
Is $482 a good price for Tokyo to Colombo?
Yes — the seasonal median for this route is around $630 round-trip. At $482 you're 23% below that, saving about $148, which we rate good for this route.
What is the cheapest month to fly from Tokyo to Colombo?
Across 5 months of cached-fare history, Oct 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 TYO → 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 5 months of cached fares, Oct comes out lowest on this route. See /guides/what-moves-a-flight-price/ for what does move a fare.
Are there nonstop flights from Tokyo to Colombo?
The current cheapest fares involve a connection, ticketed under Air China. 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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