RareNonstop · 1.5h
ZRH to ROMItaly
Rome
$60
usually $100
−40%
Most monthly lows $69–$102. Cheaper than every other month on record (3).
Flights · ZRH → CMB
Zurich to Colombo
Best fare, round trip
$636
Observed seasonal median $635 — this fare is not below it.
Found
- Depart
- Sun 6 Dec
- Return
- Sun 13 Dec
- Stay
- 7 nights
- Flight
- 1 stop · 11h
- Airline
Etihad
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 $548 and peak in July near $995, 82% dearer, across the 9 months we track. The cheapest itinerary we are tracking makes one stop and takes about 11 hours outbound, on a 7-night trip — ticketed under Etihad, which on a connecting fare need not operate every leg. At $636 for 8,037 km each way, that works out to about $40 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 14th — 27% above the $502 from Istanbul. That puts it in the cheaper half of the 33 routes of similar length we watch out of Zurich, where the middle fare is $762. Across the 9 months of prices we hold for this route the typical fare is $635, and this one sits right on that line — neither a drop nor a premium. 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 14% lower than when tracking began on 8 Aug — $741 then versus $639 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 $548, on 24 Nov.
Cached day-level data for this route is sparse — 15 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
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November 2026
12345Friday 6 November: $693. Compare fares from this day.7891011121314151617181920212223Tuesday 24 November: $548. Compare fares from this day.Wednesday 25 November: $618. Compare fares from this day.Thursday 26 November: $639. Compare fares from this day.27Saturday 28 November: $639. Compare fares from this day.29Monday 30 November: $618. Compare fares from this day.
December 2026
January 2027
1Saturday 2 January: $753. Compare fares from this day.3Monday 4 January: $1k. Compare fares from this day.Tuesday 5 January: $633. Compare fares from this day.678910Monday 11 January: $642. Compare fares from this day.121314151617181920212223242526Wednesday 27 January: $653. Compare fares from this day.28293031
Cached fares · checked 15 Oct 2026
Cheapest in Nov, around $548
14% below the $635 typical fare
$683Oct, above the usual price. Compare October fares.$548Nov, the cheapest month. Compare November fares.$596Dec, below the usual price. Compare December fares.$629Jan ’27, around the usual price. Compare January fares.$855Mar, above the usual price. Compare March fares.$606Apr, around the usual price. Compare April fares.$605May, around the usual price. Compare May fares.$995Jul, above the usual price. Compare July fares.$713Sep, above the usual price. Compare September fares.
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Cheapest round-trip fare found each month, Zurich to Colombo, from cached prices.
Route facts
- Airports
- Zurich (ZRH) ↔ Bandaranaike (CMB)
- Flight time
- ≈11 hours outbound
- Distance
- ≈8,037 km each way
- Typical price
- $635 round-trip (seasonal median)
- Airlines on the board
- Etihad
- Itineraries
- Connections on current fares
- Best months to visit
- Dec–Mar
Good to know
ZRH → CMB, answered.
What is the cheapest month to fly from Zurich to Colombo?
Across 9 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 ZRH → 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 9 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 Zurich to Colombo?
The current cheapest fares involve a connection, ticketed under Etihad. 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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