Rome to Colombo flight

Flights from Rome to Colombo start at €811.39 and take 13h 38m at their fastest.

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The Flights from Rome to Colombo starts at €811.39 and takes 13h 38m door to door, run by 1 operator over 7,853 km, with around 5 departures a day. Fares bottom out about 60 days before departure.

Checked September 10, 2026Priced for September 28, 2026One passenger, all fees included

  • 13h 38mDoor to door
  • 10h 28mMoving
  • €811.39From
  • 1162.2 kgCO2
Real services

The cheapest and the fastest on September 28, 2026

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

Cheapest€621.41
  1. Air Arabia AA821407:306h 29m13:59Rome FCOSharjah SHJ
  2. Air Arabia AA279614:545h 10m20:04Sharjah SHJColombo CMB

Changes at Sharjah, with 55 minutes between services and a walk of about 5 minutes.

Door to door 15h 44mCO2 1162.5 kgChanges 1Fixed, no changes

Fastest€761.24
  1. SriLankan Airlines SL147806:0710h 28m16:35Rome FCOColombo CMB

Door to door 13h 38mCO2 1162.2 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.
OperatorFromFastestTypical speedFlexibilityOn board
SriLankan Airlines€759.4713h 36m740 km/hFixed fareNot published

The trip ends at Fort Railway Station. Everything past the gates belongs to somebody else, the rooms included.

A hotel room

Where to stay in Colombo

Filter by neighborhood and by nightly price, and the map tells you what is a walk and what is a cab.

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Booking window

When to book Rome to Colombo

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

  1. €653.8690 days
  2. €502.2360 days
  3. €652.6845 days
  4. €714.0430 days
  5. €873.3421 days
  6. €999.6014 days
  7. €1,073.357 days
  8. €1,153.003 days
  9. €1,642.111 days
Cheapest lead time
Fares bottom out around 60 days ahead, at €502.23.
How much it moves
The gap between the cheapest and most expensive lead time is 227 percent. The most expensive point is €1,642.11, 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. €978.95Sun
  2. €848.56Mon
  3. €822.60Tue
  4. €811.39Wed
  5. €999.60Thu
  6. €1,027.33Fri
  7. €969.51Sat
Terminals

Where you leave from and where you arrive

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

Rome

Air
  • FCO
  • CIA

Colombo

Air
  • CMB
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
20% of the services we sell on this corridor run through without a change. The remaining 80% involve one connection.
How far it really runs
The route covers 7,853 km against 7,625 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 Sharjah, Dubai, Muscat, Kuwait City. The gap between arriving and leaving is 55 minutes, of which about 5 is walking.
If the connection is missed
The tightest connection we sell here has a 17 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 Rome at 06:07 and the last at 07:30, across 5 departures. The return direction keeps its own timetable, so the times back are not these times reversed.

Questions about Rome 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 Rome to Colombo take?

The Flight from Rome to Colombo takes 13h 38m door to door, of which 10h 28m is spent moving. The route runs 7,853 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 Rome to Colombo cost?

The Flight from Rome to Colombo starts at €811.39 for one passenger, checked on September 28, 2026. A typical fare is €747.08. 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 Rome to Colombo?

1 operators run the Flight from Rome to Colombo: SriLankan Airlines. Between them they file around 5 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 Rome to Colombo use?

The Flight from Rome to Colombo leaves from Rome FCO and arrives at Colombo 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 Rome to Colombo?

Fares for the Flight from Rome to Colombo bottom out around 60 days ahead, at €502.23. The gap between the cheapest and most expensive lead time across the window is 227 percent, measured on September 28, 2026. Booking inside the final week has consistently cost more.

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

The Flight from Rome to Colombo produces about 1162.2 kg of CO2 per passenger over 7853 km, which works out at roughly 148 grams per passenger kilometer. That figure is for the whole journey and for one traveler, 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 modeled number pass for a filed one.

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On this page
Every figure above was computed for Rome to Colombo on September 10, 2026: 7853 km of route against 7625 km in a straight line, 5 services a day, 1 operators, a cheapest fare of €811.39, and 13h 38m door to door on the fastest mode. The return direction is computed separately and its numbers are not these numbers.

Related journeys

CMB is not in Colombo, and the drive in from it is the part of the trip nobody plans. We sell the flight and stop at the terminal door.

A taxi stand outside an airport terminal

Getting from CMB into 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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