Route brief · ZRH → CMB
Zurich → Colombo
$680
−6% vs typical
seasonal median $725 · difference $45
Nov 24 – Jan 19 '27 · 56 nights
Pegasus3 stops
- Usual monthly lows
- $726–$814
- Board rank
- Stronger than 8%
- Route sample
- 7 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 7 months, Nov is the cheapest for ZRH → CMB. Best time to be there: Dec–Mar.
Fares bottom out in November around $680 and peak in April near $837 — a $157 spread across the 7 months we track. The cheapest itinerary we are tracking makes 3 stops and takes about 12.5 hours outbound, on a 56-night trip — ticketed under Pegasus, which on a connecting fare need not operate every leg. At $680 for 8,037 km each way, that works out to about $42 per 1,000 km flown. That is about the $44 typical of long-haul fares here. Across the 22 departure cities we track at a similar distance from Colombo, this fare ranks 19th — 43% above the $477 from Istanbul. That puts it in the cheaper half of the 35 routes of similar length we watch out of Zurich, where the middle fare is $790.
Day-level prices for the next 3 months
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The median cached fare across this calendar is 11% lower than when tracking began on Aug 8 — $741 then versus $663 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 $614, on Nov 6.
Cached day-level data for this route is sparse — 13 of 101 days priced, from 35 tracked fares. The days below are shown as found, with no cheapest-day or below-median call.
Cheapest in Nov · around $680
6% below the $725 typical fare
Cheapest round-trip fare found per month · Zurich → Colombo · cached-price history
Route facts
- Airports
- Zurich (ZRH) ↔ Bandaranaike (CMB)
- Flight time
- ~12.5 hours outbound
- Distance
- ~8,037 km each way
- Typical price
- $725 round-trip (seasonal median)
- Airlines on the board
- Pegasus
- Itineraries
- Connections on current fares
- Best months to visit
- Dec–Mar
ZRH → CMB, answered.
Is $680 a good price for Zurich to Colombo?
Only slightly. The seasonal median is around $725 round-trip and this fare is 6% under it, about $45. 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 Zurich 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 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 7 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 Zurich to Colombo?
The current cheapest fares involve a connection, ticketed under Pegasus. 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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