Route brief · YTO → CMB
Toronto → Colombo
$1,286
−8% vs typical
seasonal median $1,395 · difference $109
Nov 30 – Jan 21 '27 · 52 nights
Philippine Airlines2 stops
- Usual monthly lows
- $1,370–$1,394
- Board rank
- Stronger than 14%
- 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, Nov is the cheapest for YTO → CMB. Best time to be there: Dec–Mar.
Fares on this route stay within about $147 across the 4 months we track — season matters less here than timing the drop. The cheapest itinerary we are tracking makes 2 stops and takes about 24 hours outbound, on a 52-night trip — ticketed under Philippine Airlines, which on a connecting fare need not operate every leg. At $1,286 for 14,015 km each way, that works out to about $46 per 1,000 km flown. That is about the $40 typical of ultra-long-haul fares here. Across the 11 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Colombo, this fare ranks 8th — 1.9× the $660 we hold from New York. For context, the middle fare among the 29 routes of similar length we watch out of Toronto is $1,166.
The 7 days we hold a cached fare for
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The median cached fare across this calendar is 5% higher than when tracking began on Aug 8 — $1,217 then versus $1,282 now, across 11 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 $1,078, on Aug 15.
- Sun, Sep 6$1,394
- Tue, Sep 15$1,282
- Wed, Nov 25$1,386
- Fri, Nov 27$1,427
- Sat, Nov 28$1,151
- Sun, Nov 29$1,240
- Mon, Nov 30$1,252
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 Nov · around $1,286
8% below the $1,395 typical fare
Cheapest round-trip fare found per month · Toronto → Colombo · cached-price history
Route facts
- Airports
- Pearson (YYZ) · Billy Bishop (YTZ) ↔ Bandaranaike (CMB)
- Flight time
- ~24 hours outbound
- Distance
- ~14,015 km each way
- Typical price
- $1,395 round-trip (seasonal median)
- Airlines on the board
- Philippine Airlines
- Itineraries
- Connections on current fares
- Best months to visit
- Dec–Mar
YTO → CMB, answered.
Is $1,286 a good price for Toronto to Colombo?
Only slightly. The seasonal median is around $1,395 round-trip and this fare is 8% under it, about $109. 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 Toronto to Colombo?
Across 4 months of cached-fare history, Nov 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 YTO → 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, Nov comes out lowest on this route. See /guides/what-moves-a-flight-price/ for what does move a fare.
Are there nonstop flights from Toronto to Colombo?
The current cheapest fares involve a connection, ticketed under Philippine 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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