Colombo to Budapest flight

Flights from Colombo to Budapest start at €624.95 and take 14h 36m at their fastest.

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The Flights from Colombo to Budapest starts at €624.95 and takes 14h 36m door to door, run by 6 operators over 7,572 km, with around 3 departures a day. Fares bottom out about 60 days before departure.

Checked 23 September 2026Priced for 12 October 2026One passenger, all fees included

  • 14h 36mDoor to door
  • 10h 27mMoving
  • €724.66 to €1,885.78From
  • 07:30 to 07:30First and last departure
  • 3Per day
  • 2182.5 kgCO2

First and last are taken from the services we sell on 12 October 2026. The return direction keeps its own timetable and is not these times reversed.

€724.66 to €1,885.78 for one passenger across the 14 departure dates priced here. The low end is one day, not every day. Typical for this corridor. The operator sets the price on the day.

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Fares by date

What this journey usually costs, by departure date. It shows which days run dearer.

Typical fares

  1. about €1,885.78Thu24
  2. about €1,780.76Fri25
  3. about €1,395.49Sat26
  4. about €1,033.23Sun27
  5. about €995.47Mon28
  6. about €1,068.04Tue29
  7. about €937.06Wed30
  8. about €1,095.77Thu1
  9. about €934.70Fri2
  10. about €929.39Sat3
  11. about €892.81Sun4
  12. about €846.20Mon5
  13. about €724.66Tue6
  14. about €782.48Wed7

Based on what this route has cost recently. The live fare is confirmed when you book.

Real services

The cheapest and the fastest on 12 October 2026

Cheapest€624.95
  1. Turkish Airlines TA439907:308h 35m13:35Bandaranaike International Colombo Airport CMBİstanbul Airport IST
  2. MNG Airlines MN721114:341h 52m15:26İstanbul Airport ISTBudapest Liszt Ferenc International Airport BUD

Changes at Istanbul, with 59 minutes between services and a walk of about 5 minutes.

Door to door 14h 36mCO2 2126.3 kgChanges 1Fixed, no changes

Carriers

Airlines

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A hotel room

A room in Budapest for the night the flight gets in

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Booking window

When to book Colombo to Budapest

The same search run across the whole booking window, so the shape of the curve is visible rather than described.

  1. €636.7590 days
  2. €613.7460 days
  3. €665.6645 days
  4. €692.2130 days
  5. €637.9321 days
  6. €782.4814 days
  7. €937.067 days
  8. €1,395.493 days
  9. €1,885.781 days
Cheapest lead time
Fares bottom out around 60 days ahead, at €613.74.
How much it moves
The gap between the cheapest and dearest lead time is 207 percent. The dearest point is €1,885.78, 1 days out.
What that means
Today sits inside the cheap window, which closes about 60 days before departure. Waiting from here has usually cost money on this corridor rather than saved it.
Day of the week

Which departure day costs least

Median cheapest fare for each weekday, taken across the next three weeks of real prices.

  1. €892.81Sun
  2. €846.20Mon
  3. €724.66Tue
  4. €782.48Wed
  5. €1,095.77Thu
  6. €934.70Fri
  7. €929.39Sat
Terminals

Where you leave from and where you arrive

Colombo

Air
  • CMB

Budapest

Air
  • BUD
The journey

What the journey looks like

Direct or connecting
0% of the services we sell on this corridor run through without a change. The remaining 100% involve one connection.
How far it really runs
The route covers 7,572 km against 7,273 km in a straight line, a detour of 4 percent. Track and road geometry account for the difference.
Where the change is
Connections are made at Muscat, Istanbul, Dubai. The gap between arriving and leaving is 52 minutes, of which about 5 is walking.
If the connection is missed
The tightest connection we sell here has a 18 percent chance of not being made on the timetable alone. Part of this journey is a self transfer between separate tickets, so leave more time than the minimum and expect to check in again.
First and last departure
The first service of the day leaves Colombo at 07:30 and the last at 07:30, across 3 departures The return direction keeps its own timetable, so the times back are not these times reversed.

Questions about Colombo to Budapest

The questions people actually ask about this journey, answered from the same prices and times the page above is built on rather than written once and left to go stale.

How long does the Flight from Colombo to Budapest take?

The Flight from Colombo to Budapest takes 14h 36m door to door, of which 10h 27m is spent moving. The route runs 7,572 km. The difference between the two times is reaching the terminal and leaving it at the far end, which every time on this page includes.

How much does the Flight from Colombo to Budapest cost?

The Flight from Colombo to Budapest starts at €624.95 for one passenger, as of 23 September 2026. A typical fare is €652.68. Both are the total including taxes, supplier fees and our service fee, so the price here is the price at checkout.

Who runs the Flight from Colombo to Budapest?

6 operators run the Flight from Colombo to Budapest: SriLankan Airlines, Oman Air, Astair, Emirates, Turkish Airlines. Between them they file around 3 departures a day. The operator table on this page compares them on fare, journey time, cruising speed, fare conditions and what is provided on board.

Which terminal does the Flight from Colombo to Budapest use?

The Flight from Colombo to Budapest leaves from Bandaranaike International Colombo Airport CMB and arrives at Budapest Liszt Ferenc International Airport BUD. Allow about 3h 10m for reaching the departure terminal and leaving the arrival one. That time is already inside every door to door figure quoted on this page.

When should I book the Flight from Colombo to Budapest?

Fares for the Flight from Colombo to Budapest bottom out around 60 days ahead, at €613.74. The gap between the cheapest and dearest lead time across the window is 207 percent, measured on 23 September 2026. Booking inside the final week has consistently cost more.

How much CO2 does the Flight from Colombo to Budapest produce?

The Flight from Colombo to Budapest produces about 2182.5 kg of CO2 per passenger over 7572 km, which works out at roughly 288 grams per passenger kilometre. That figure is for the whole journey and for one traveller, not for the vehicle.

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.

Observed service A carrier record names this operator on this pair, carried through unchanged.

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 Door to door, Fares, The booking window, Carbon

On this page
Every figure above was computed for Colombo to Budapest on 23 September 2026: 7572 km of route against 7273 km in a straight line, 3 services a day, 6 operators a cheapest fare of €624.95, and 14h 36m door to door on the fastest mode. The return direction is computed separately and its numbers are not these numbers.

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