ExceptionalNonstop · 2h
VIE to BRUBelgium
Brussels
$78
usually $190
−59%
Most monthly lows $139–$201. Cheaper than every other month on record (4).
Flights · VIE → CMB
Vienna to Colombo
Best fare, round trip
$607
−7%
below its usual $650
you keep $43
Found
- Depart
- Thu 26 Nov
- Return
- Thu 3 Dec
- Stay
- 7 nights
- Flight
- 1 stop · 10h
- Airline
Air Arabia
Most of this route’s monthly lows fall between $644 and $671. The drop beats 12% of measured fares on the board, over 7 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 November around $523 and peak in October near $708, 35% dearer, across the 7 months we track. The cheapest itinerary we are tracking makes one stop and takes about 10 hours outbound, on a 7-night trip — ticketed under Air Arabia, which on a connecting fare need not operate every leg. At $607 for 7,487 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 22 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Colombo, this fare ranks 12th — 35% above the $448 from Seoul. That puts it in the cheaper half of the 29 routes of similar length we watch out of Vienna, where the middle fare is $669. 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 4% higher than when tracking began on 8 Aug — $621 then versus $645 now, across 17 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 $516, on 4 Oct.
Cached day-level data for this route is sparse — 20 of 111 days priced, from 81 tracked fares. The days below are shown as found, with no cheapest-day or below-median call.
October 2026
1314151617Sunday 18 October: $708. Compare fares from this day.19Tuesday 20 October: $709. Compare fares from this day.2122232425262728293031
November 2026
123Wednesday 4 November: $712. Compare fares from this day.56789Tuesday 10 November: $523. Compare fares from this day.111213Saturday 14 November: $589. Compare fares from this day.151617181920Saturday 21 November: $635. Compare fares from this day.22232425Thursday 26 November: $607. Compare fares from this day.27282930
December 2026
Tuesday 1 December: $642. Compare fares from this day.Wednesday 2 December: $645. Compare fares from this day.3Friday 4 December: $650. Compare fares from this day.5678910Friday 11 December: $860. Compare fares from this day.12131415161718192021222324252627Monday 28 December: $1.1k. Compare fares from this day.293031
January 2027
Friday 1 January: $776. Compare fares from this day.2345Wednesday 6 January: $585. Compare fares from this day.7Friday 8 January: $627. Compare fares from this day.Saturday 9 January: $639. Compare fares from this day.1011Tuesday 12 January: $664. Compare fares from this day.1314151617181920Thursday 21 January: $615. Compare fares from this day.Friday 22 January: $589. Compare fares from this day.232425262728293031
Cached fares · checked 13 Oct 2026
Cheapest in Nov, around $523
20% below the $650 typical fare
$708Oct, above the usual price. Compare October fares.$523Nov, the cheapest month. Compare November fares.$642Dec, around the usual price. Compare December fares.$585Jan ’27, below the usual price. Compare January fares.$648Feb, around the usual price. Compare February fares.$671Mar, around the usual price. Compare March fares.$644Sep, around the usual price. Compare September fares.
CheapestBelow usualUsualAbove usualPress a month to compare its fares
Cheapest round-trip fare found each month, Vienna to Colombo, from cached prices.
Route facts
- Airports
- Schwechat (VIE) ↔ Bandaranaike (CMB)
- Flight time
- ≈10 hours outbound
- Distance
- ≈7,487 km each way
- Typical price
- $650 round-trip (seasonal median)
- Airlines on the board
- Air Arabia
- Itineraries
- Connections on current fares
- Best months to visit
- Dec–Mar
Good to know
VIE → CMB, answered.
Is $607 a good price for Vienna to Colombo?
Only slightly. The seasonal median is around $650 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 Vienna to Colombo?
Across 7 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 VIE → 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 7 months of cached fares, Nov comes out lowest on this route. Our guide Why flight prices change covers what does move a fare.
Are there nonstop flights from Vienna to Colombo?
The current cheapest fares involve a connection, ticketed under Air Arabia. 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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