Budapest to Colombo flight

Flights from Budapest to Colombo start at €574.21 and take 15h 11m at their fastest.

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The Flights from Budapest to Colombo starts at €574.21 and takes 15h 11m door to door, run by 6 operators over 7,554 km, with around 3 departures a day. Fares bottom out about 60 days before departure.

Checked September 23, 2026Priced for October 13, 2026One passenger, all fees included

  • 15h 11mDoor to door
  • 11h 13mMoving
  • €734.69 to €2,066.32From
  • 07:30 to 07:30First and last departure
  • 3Per day
  • 2182.5 kgCO2

First and last are taken from the services we sell on October 13, 2026. The return direction keeps its own timetable and is not these times reversed.

€734.69 to €2,066.32 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 €2,066.32Thu24
  2. about €1,406.70Fri25
  3. about €1,456.26Sat26
  4. about €1,257.43Sun27
  5. about €903.43Mon28
  6. about €984.26Tue29
  7. about €1,018.48Wed30
  8. about €929.98Thu1
  9. about €888.68Fri2
  10. about €928.21Sat3
  11. about €915.23Sun4
  12. about €734.69Mon5
  13. about €737.64Tue6
  14. about €823.19Wed7

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

Real services

The cheapest and the fastest on October 13, 2026

Cheapest€574.21
  1. MNG Airlines MN774607:301h 49m10:19Budapest Liszt Ferenc International Airport BUDİstanbul Airport IST
  2. Turkish Airlines TA257812:028h 54m23:26İstanbul Airport ISTBandaranaike International Colombo Airport CMB

Changes at Istanbul, with 103 minutes between services and a walk of about 5 minutes.

Door to door 15h 36mCO2 2126.3 kgChanges 1Fixed, no changes

Fastest€649.73
  1. Emirates E322307:306h 23m15:53Budapest Liszt Ferenc International Airport BUDDubai International Airport DXB
  2. Astair A493216:414h 50m23:01Dubai International Airport DXBBandaranaike International Colombo Airport CMB

Changes at Dubai, with 48 minutes between services and a walk of about 5 minutes.

Door to door 15h 11mCO2 2213.3 kgChanges 1Fixed, no changes

Carriers

Airlines

The flight 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 flight gets in

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Booking window

When to book Budapest to Colombo

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

  1. €633.2190 days
  2. €581.8860 days
  3. €632.0345 days
  4. €688.6730 days
  5. €672.7421 days
  6. €823.1914 days
  7. €1,018.487 days
  8. €1,456.263 days
  9. €2,066.321 days
Cheapest lead time
Fares bottom out around 60 days ahead, at €581.88.
How much it moves
The gap between the cheapest and most expensive lead time is 255 percent. The most expensive point is €2,066.32, 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. €915.23Sun
  2. €734.69Mon
  3. €737.64Tue
  4. €823.19Wed
  5. €929.98Thu
  6. €888.68Fri
  7. €928.21Sat
Terminals

Where you leave from and where you arrive

Budapest

Air
  • BUD

Colombo

Air
  • CMB
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 7,554 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 Dubai, Muscat, Istanbul. The gap between arriving and leaving is 48 minutes, of which about 5 is walking.
If the connection is missed
The tightest connection we sell here has a 19 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 Budapest 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 Budapest to Colombo

The questions people actually ask about this trip, 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 Budapest to Colombo take?

The Flight from Budapest to Colombo takes 15h 11m door to door, of which 11h 13m is spent moving. The route runs 7,554 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 Budapest to Colombo cost?

The Flight from Budapest to Colombo starts at €574.21 for one passenger, as of September 23, 2026. A typical fare is €586.01. 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 Budapest to Colombo?

6 operators run the Flight from Budapest to Colombo: Oman Air, SriLankan Airlines, Emirates, Astair, MNG 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 Budapest to Colombo use?

The Flight from Budapest to Colombo leaves from Budapest Liszt Ferenc International Airport BUD and arrives at Bandaranaike International Colombo Airport CMB. 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 Budapest to Colombo?

Fares for the Flight from Budapest to Colombo bottom out around 60 days ahead, at €581.88. The gap between the cheapest and most expensive lead time across the window is 255 percent, measured on September 23, 2026. Booking inside the final week has consistently cost more.

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

The Flight from Budapest to Colombo produces about 2182.5 kg of CO2 per passenger over 7554 km, which works out at roughly 289 grams per passenger kilometer. That figure is for the whole journey and for one traveler, 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 labeled Estimated fare and cannot be booked.

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On this page
Every figure above was computed for Budapest to Colombo on September 23, 2026: 7554 km of route against 7273 km in a straight line, 3 services a day, 6 operators a cheapest fare of €574.21, and 15h 11m 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 CMB into Colombo is set by whoever drives it.

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A car waiting when you land in Colombo

Settled in advance, so the ride into Colombo costs what it said it would rather than what the cab stand says.

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