RareNonstop · 3h
TYO to SELSouth Korea
Seoul
$112
usually $225
−50%
Most monthly lows $190–$228. Cheaper than every other month on record (9).
Flights · TYO → CMB
Tokyo to Colombo
Best fare, round trip
$567
−7%
below its usual $610
you keep $43
Found
- Depart
- Sun 31 Jan
- Return
- Sun 28 Feb
- Stay
- 28 nights
- Flight
- 2 stops · 13.5h
- Airline
Air China
Most of this route’s monthly lows fall between $590 and $610. The drop beats 12% of measured fares on the board, over 4 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 October around $504 and peak in March near $728, 44% dearer, across the 4 months we track. The cheapest itinerary we are tracking makes 2 stops and takes about 13.5 hours outbound, on a 28-night trip — ticketed under Air China, which on a connecting fare need not operate every leg. At $567 for 6,847 km each way, that works out to about $41 per 1,000 km flown. That is below the $44 per 1,000 km typical of long-haul fares here. Across the 18 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Colombo, this fare ranks 5th — 27% above the $448 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 $623. 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 6% lower than when tracking began on 8 Aug — $679 then versus $636 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 $438, on 14 Dec.
Cached day-level data for this route is sparse — 11 of 109 days priced, from 76 tracked fares. The days below are shown as found, with no cheapest-day or below-median call.
October 2026
November 2026
Sunday 1 November: $669. Compare fares from this day.23Wednesday 4 November: $590. Compare fares from this day.567891011Thursday 12 November: $636. Compare fares from this day.131415161718192021222324252627282930
December 2026
1234567Tuesday 8 December: $621. Compare fares from this day.9101112131415161718Saturday 19 December: $781. Compare fares from this day.Sunday 20 December: $608. Compare fares from this day.212223Thursday 24 December: $855. Compare fares from this day.252627282930Thursday 31 December: $733. Compare fares from this day.
January 2027
123456789101112131415161718192021222324252627282930Sunday 31 January: $567. Compare fares from this day.
Cached fares · checked 15 Oct 2026
Cheapest in Oct, around $504
17% below the $610 typical fare
$504Oct, the cheapest month. Compare October fares.$590Nov, around the usual price. Compare November fares.$608Dec, around the usual price. Compare December fares.$567Jan ’27, below the usual price. Compare January fares.$728Mar, above the usual price. Compare March fares.
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Cheapest round-trip fare found each month, Tokyo to Colombo, from cached prices.
Route facts
- Airports
- Narita (NRT) · Haneda (HND) ↔ Bandaranaike (CMB)
- Flight time
- ≈13.5 hours outbound
- Distance
- ≈6,847 km each way
- Typical price
- $610 round-trip (seasonal median)
- Airlines on the board
- Air China
- Itineraries
- Connections on current fares
- Best months to visit
- Dec–Mar
Good to know
TYO → CMB, answered.
Is $567 a good price for Tokyo to Colombo?
Only slightly. The seasonal median is around $610 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 Tokyo to Colombo?
Across 4 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 4 months of cached fares, Oct comes out lowest on this route. Our guide Why flight prices change covers what does move a fare.
Are there nonstop flights from Tokyo to Colombo?
The current cheapest fares involve a connection, ticketed under Air China. 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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