Bus tickets to Colombo

40 origins, priced from the same engine that serves the search page.

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40 places connect to Colombo by Buses, across 1 country, run by 0 operators. The cheapest arrival costs None. Origins run from 26 km away to 304 km, with a median of 135 km.

Priced for 15 October 2026One passenger, all fees included

Fares

Arriving in Colombo

Cheapest fare and fastest journey into Colombo, over the next three weeks.
RouteFromFastestDistance
Jaffna to Colombo busNoneNone304 km
Kandy to Colombo busNoneNone95 km
Trincomalee to Colombo busNoneNone238 km
Galle to Colombo busNoneNone107 km
Batticaloa to Colombo busNoneNone221 km
Dambulla to Colombo busNoneNone136 km
Matale to Colombo busNoneNone104 km
Kurunegala to Colombo busNoneNone84 km
Nuwara Eliya to Colombo busNoneNone103 km
Negombo to Colombo busNoneNone30 km
Matara to Colombo busNoneNone133 km
Anuradhapura to Colombo busNoneNone165 km
Vavuniya to Colombo busNoneNone214 km
Badulla to Colombo busNoneNone134 km
Chilaw to Colombo busNoneNone71 km
Kataragama to Colombo busNoneNone174 km
Hambantota to Colombo busNoneNone167 km
Katunayaka to Colombo busNoneNone26 km
Pottuvil to Colombo busNoneNone218 km
Ampara to Colombo busNoneNone206 km
  • 40Places you can arrive from
  • 1Countries
  • 0Operators

12Go fares to Colombo

These are 12Go's own figures: the routes they sell most, and the lowest fare each is showing today.

See Jaffna to Colombo on 12Go

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The coach gets you into Colombo. These two partners take it from there, and the bed is theirs to book.

A hotel room

A room in Colombo for the night the coach gets in

Sort by distance from Fort Railway Station and you can see which places are ten minutes on foot and which are not.

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Catchment

How far people travel to get here

Straight line distance from each origin we sell, not the distance the route runs.
DistanceRoutesShareNearest of them
Under 200 km2870%Katunayaka, 26 km
200 to 600 km1230%Ampara, 206 km
Origins

Which countries you can arrive from

Counted by route, so a country with several cities on the corridor counts once per route rather than once per city.
CountryRoutesShare
Sri Lanka40100%
Terminals

Stations, airports and ports in Colombo

Colombo

Coach
  • Nugegoda Bus Station
  • Kaduwela Bus Terminal
Leaving

Leaving Colombo

Common questions about Bus tickets to Colombo

Where can I travel to Colombo by Buses from?

40 places connect to Colombo by Buses on our network, across 1 country The nearest is 26 km away in a straight line and the furthest 304 km.

Which terminal does the Buses to Colombo use?

Buses services into Colombo use 2 named terminals, among them Nugegoda Bus Station, Kaduwela Bus Terminal. The terminal a given service uses is shown on the route page for that journey and again on the ticket, because a city with several is a city where the wrong one costs an hour.

Where these numbers come from

Places, coordinates, operators, which operator serves which pair, and every distance on this page are real and come from open data. Where a corridor has a filed timetable the departure times are real too, and ferry fares are the prices the operators publish themselves.

Prices come from the supplier wherever we hold a live quote. Elsewhere we show an indicative price built from the real distance, the real operator and a fare curve over lead time, day of the week and season. Those are labelled Estimated fare and cannot be booked.

Defined in full at Catchment, Fares, Door to door

Other ways to reach Colombo

The coach gets in hours before any room is ready. Holding a bag is not what we sell.

Left luggage lockers

Left luggage near Fort Railway Station

Most of the points near Fort Railway Station open before the first train and shut after the last one.

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