Colombo to Riyadh flight

Flights from Colombo to Riyadh start at €404.88 and take 9h 21m at their fastest.

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The Flights from Colombo to Riyadh starts at €404.88 and takes 9h 21m door to door, run by 2 operators over 4,159 km, with around 6 departures a day. Fares bottom out about 60 days before departure.

Checked 9 September 2026Priced for 28 September 2026One passenger, all fees included

  • 9h 21mDoor to door
  • 6h 11mMoving
  • €404.88From
  • 615.5 kgCO2
Real services

The cheapest and the fastest on 28 September 2026

Two journeys we can sell today, with the service number each operator files them under.

Cheapest€335.85
  1. SriLankan Airlines SL315007:301h 6m08:36Colombo CMBKochi COK
  2. Air India Express AI231409:425h 4m14:46Kochi COKRiyadh RUH

Changes at Kochi, with 66 minutes between services and a walk of about 5 minutes.

Door to door 10h 26mCO2 668.7 kgChanges 1Fixed, no changes

Fastest€382.46
  1. SriLankan Airlines SL621706:076h 11m12:18Colombo CMBRiyadh RUH

Door to door 9h 21mCO2 615.5 kgChanges 0Fixed, no changes

Carriers

Airlines

Speed, flexibility and what is on board. Nothing here is a rating, because we have not earned one.

Every operator we sell on this corridor. Speed is the carrier's own typical cruising speed, not the average over this route.
OperatorFromFastest
Saudia€346.478h 49m
SriLankan Airlines€354.148h 47m

The journey ends at Riyadh railway station. Everything past the barriers belongs to somebody else, the rooms included.

A hotel room

A room in Riyadh for the night the flight gets in

Hotels and flats near the centre, most of them with free cancellation, on a map that shows what is walkable.

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Booking window

When to book Colombo to Riyadh

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

  1. €333.4990 days
  2. €289.8360 days
  3. €348.2445 days
  4. €327.5930 days
  5. €375.9721 days
  6. €420.8114 days
  7. €564.777 days
  8. €784.253 days
  9. €1,052.701 days
Cheapest lead time
Fares bottom out around 60 days ahead, at €289.83.
How much it moves
The gap between the cheapest and dearest lead time is 263 percent. The dearest point is €1,052.70, 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. €512.26Sun
  2. €404.88Mon
  3. €442.05Tue
  4. €420.81Wed
  5. €527.01Thu
  6. €503.41Fri
  7. €581.88Sat
Terminals

Where you leave from and where you arrive

The stations, airports and ports each mode on this corridor actually uses.

Colombo

Air
  • CMB

Riyadh

Air
  • RUH
The journey

What the journey actually looks like

Direct or connecting, how far the route really runs, and what happens when a connection is missed.

Direct or connecting
33% of the services we sell on this corridor run through without a change. The remaining 67% involve one connection.
How far it really runs
The route covers 4,159 km against 4,038 km in a straight line, a detour of 3 percent. Track and road geometry account for the difference.
Where the change is
Connections are made at Kochi, Abu Dhabi, Thiruvananthapuram, Doha. The gap between arriving and leaving is 66 minutes, of which about 5 is walking.
If the connection is missed
The tightest connection we sell here has a 14 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 06:03 and the last at 07:30, across 6 departures. The return direction keeps its own timetable, so the times back are not these times reversed.

Questions about Colombo to Riyadh

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 Riyadh take?

The Flight from Colombo to Riyadh takes 9h 21m door to door, of which 6h 11m is spent moving. The route runs 4,159 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 Riyadh cost?

The Flight from Colombo to Riyadh starts at €404.88 for one passenger, checked on 28 September 2026. A typical fare is €379.51. 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 Riyadh?

2 operators run the Flight from Colombo to Riyadh: Saudia, SriLankan Airlines. Between them they file around 6 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 Riyadh use?

The Flight from Colombo to Riyadh leaves from Colombo CMB and arrives at Riyadh RUH. 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 Riyadh?

Fares for the Flight from Colombo to Riyadh bottom out around 60 days ahead, at €289.83. The gap between the cheapest and dearest lead time across the window is 263 percent, measured on 28 September 2026. Booking inside the final week has consistently cost more.

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

The Flight from Colombo to Riyadh produces about 615.5 kg of CO2 per passenger over 4159 km, which works out at roughly 148 grams per passenger kilometre. That figure is for the whole journey and for one traveller, not for the vehicle.

Where these numbers come from

Observed service A carrier record shows this named operator serving this named pair, and we carry that through unchanged.

Schedules, seat counts and fares are generated by our own model until the supplier contracts are signed. Places, coordinates, operators, which operator serves which pair, and every distance are real. We would rather say that on every page than let a modelled number pass for a filed one.

Defined in full at Door to door, Fares, The booking window, Carbon

On this page
Every figure above was computed for Colombo to Riyadh on 9 September 2026: 4159 km of route against 4038 km in a straight line, 6 services a day, 2 operators, a cheapest fare of €404.88, and 9h 21m door to door on the fastest mode. The return direction is computed separately and its numbers are not these numbers.

Related journeys

The fare from RUH into Riyadh is the one price on this journey we cannot show you, because it is not ours.

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A car waiting when you land in Riyadh

A price agreed before you fly, a driver at arrivals, and a car big enough for the bags.

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