Flights from Shanghai to Ambalantota start at €582.47 and take 10h 36m at their fastest.
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The Flights from Shanghai to Ambalantota starts at €582.47 and takes 10h 36m door to door, run by 1 operator over 5,197 km, with around 5 departures a day. Fares bottom out about 45 days before departure.
First and last are taken from the services we sell on September 28, 2026. The return direction keeps its own timetable and is not these times reversed.
€582.47 to €1,146.51 for one passenger across the 14 departure dates priced here. The low end is one day, not every day. Worked out from this corridor rather than held for anybody. The operator sets the price on the day.
What this journey usually costs, by departure date. It shows which days run dearer.
Typical fares
Based on what this route has cost recently. The operator sets the price on the day, and the live fare is confirmed when you book.
Changes at Bangkok, with 70 minutes between services and a walk of about 5 minutes.
Door to door 12h 11mCO2 1313.4 kgChanges 1Fixed, no changes
Door to door 10h 36mCO2 769.2 kgChanges 0Fixed, no changes
| Operator | From | Fastest | Typical speed | Flexibility | On board |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SriLankan Airlines | €505.77 | 10h 6m | 740 km/h | Fixed fare | Not published |
The flight gets you into Ambalantota. It does not get you a bed, and neither do we.
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Median cheapest fare for each weekday, taken across the next three weeks of real prices.
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The Flight from Shanghai to Ambalantota takes 10h 36m door to door, of which 7h 26m is spent moving. The route runs 5,197 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.
The Flight from Shanghai to Ambalantota starts at €582.47 for one passenger, as of September 13, 2026. A typical fare is €506.95. Both are the total including taxes, supplier fees and our service fee, so the price here is the price at checkout.
1 operators run the Flight from Shanghai to Ambalantota: 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.
The Flight from Shanghai to Ambalantota leaves from Shanghai SHA and arrives at Ambalantota HRI. 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.
Fares for the Flight from Shanghai to Ambalantota bottom out around 45 days ahead, at €350.60. The gap between the cheapest and most expensive lead time across the window is 227 percent, measured on September 13, 2026. Booking inside the final week has consistently cost more.
The Flight from Shanghai to Ambalantota produces about 769.2 kg of CO2 per passenger over 5197 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.
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 shows this named operator serving this named pair, and we carry that through unchanged.
Where no operator publishes a fare for a corridor, the price here is our own estimate, worked out from the real distance and the real operator through a fare curve that follows lead time, day of the week and season. It tells you roughly what the journey costs. It is not a seat anyone has agreed to sell, and the payment step will not take it.
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The fare from HRI into Ambalantota is the one price on this trip we cannot show you, because it is not ours.
Settled in advance, so the ride into Ambalantota costs what it said it would rather than what the cab stand says.
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