Compare trains, buses, flights and ferries from Colombo to Paris. From €736.46, fastest 14h 35m, with the total price and every fee shown up front.
Traveling from Colombo to Paris costs €736.46 at the cheapest and takes 14h 35m door to door at the fastest, across 1 mode and 1 operator. The route covers 8,769 km. Cheapest is by Flight, fastest is by Flight.
Checked September 10, 2026Priced for September 28, 2026One passenger, all fees included
Journey times below are door to door, so they include getting to the terminal and away from it at the other end. Fares are the cheapest we currently sell on September 28, 2026.
Door to door means the whole journey, including reaching the terminal and leaving it at the far end. Fares are the cheapest sold on each mode.
Mode
Door to door
Moving
At the ends
From
CO2
Per day
Flight
15h 1m
11h 51m
3h 10m
€881.60
1297.8 kg
5
15h 1mFastest, by Flight
€881.60Cheapest, by Flight
1297.8 kgLowest CO2, by Flight
8,769 kmDistance traveled
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€736.46
China Airlines CA866107:3011h 29m18:59Colombo CMBLuxembourg LUX
Luxair L685120:0949m20:58Luxembourg LUXParis BVA
Changes at Luxembourg, with 70 minutes between services and a walk of about 5 minutes.
Door to door 16h 38mCO2 1330.5 kgChanges 1Fixed, no changes
SNCF SN763421:133h 53m01:06Zurich HauptbahnhofParis Gare de Lyon
Changes at Zürich, with 80 minutes between services and a walk of about 14 minutes.
Door to door 19h 33mCO2 1241.3 kgChanges 1Fixed, no changes
Today's real departures
Live from the operators' own published timetables, through the open transit feeds they publish. Times and services are real. Fares are modeled until our booking connectors are live.
No live timetable for this trip yet.
Live from the operators' own published timetables, through the open transit feeds they publish. Times and services are real. Fares are modeled until our booking connectors are live.
Prices over the next three weeks
Live from our own engine, refreshed on every request. The cheapest days for each way of traveling are marked.
Cheapest fare by mode and day for Colombo to Paris
Cheapest fare by mode and day for Colombo to Paris
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Booking window
When to book Colombo to Paris
The same search run across the whole booking window, so the shape of the curve is visible rather than described.
€755.9390 days
€643.8360 days
€689.8545 days
€766.5530 days
€1,023.2021 days
€1,138.2514 days
€1,494.617 days
€1,557.743 days
€1,985.491 days
Cheapest lead time
Fares bottom out around 60 days ahead, at €643.83.
How much it moves
The gap between the cheapest and most expensive lead time is 208 percent. The most expensive point is €1,985.49, 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.
Book now Fares on this route are lowest around 60 days ahead. You are inside that window.
Day of the week
Which departure day costs least
Median cheapest fare for each weekday, taken across the next three weeks of real prices.
€1,091.64Sun
€881.60Mon
€900.48Tue
€891.04Wed
€1,138.25Thu
€1,080.43Fri
€1,081.02Sat
Across the year
How the fare moves month by month
The same journey priced on the fifteenth of each of the next six months.
€1,137.66Sep
€822.01Oct
€741.77Nov
€728.79Dec
€674.51Jan
€603.12Feb
The route
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 8,769 km against 8,514 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 Muscat, Luxembourg, Zürich, Istanbul. The gap between arriving and leaving is 45 minutes, of which about 5 is walking.
If the connection is missed
The tightest connection we sell here has a 20 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 06:07 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.
Terminals
Where you leave from and where you arrive
The stations, airports and ports each mode on this corridor actually uses.
Colombo
Rail
Fort Railway Station
Maradana Railway Station
Ganemulla railway station
Bus
Nugegoda Bus Station
Kaduwela Bus Terminal
Air
CMB
Paris
Rail
Paris Gare de Lyon
Massy TGV
Paris Gare du Nord
Bus
Paris Bercy Seine
Gare de Cormeilles-en-Parisis
Air
CDG
ORY
BVA
Ferry
Paris-Canal
Bateaux parisiens
Paris is large, and the road in from CDG can take longer than the last hour of the flight. Cars are not our business.
A car waiting when you land in Paris
Settled in advance, so the ride into Paris costs what it said it would rather than what the cab stand says.
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Questions about Colombo to Paris
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 it take to get from Colombo to Paris?
The fastest journey from Colombo to Paris takes 14h 35m door to door, of which 11h 51m is spent moving, on the Flight. Most services take around 15h 17m, because that average includes slower stopping services and journeys with a connection. Times include reaching the terminal and leaving it at the far end.
How much does it cost to travel from Colombo to Paris?
The cheapest fare from Colombo to Paris is €736.46, checked on September 28, 2026. A typical fare across the next three weeks is €1,146.51. Both figures are the total for one passenger, including taxes, supplier fees and our service fee, so nothing is added at checkout.
What is the cheapest way to get from Colombo to Paris?
The cheapest way from Colombo to Paris is by Flight, at €881.60 for one passenger on September 28, 2026. That journey takes 15h 1m door to door. Cheaper is rarely faster on this corridor, and the comparison table on this page shows what each mode costs against what it saves.
When should I book Colombo to Paris?
Fares from Colombo to Paris bottom out around 60 days before departure, at €643.83. Across the whole booking window the gap between the cheapest and the most expensive lead time is 208 percent, measured on September 28, 2026. Booking inside the last week has consistently cost more on this corridor.
Which day of the week is cheapest for Colombo to Paris?
Monday is the cheapest day to depart from Colombo to Paris, at €881.60. That is the median of 21 priced departure days across the next three weeks, checked on September 28, 2026. Shifting a departure by one day is usually worth more than shifting the booking by one week.
Which month is cheapest for Colombo to Paris?
February is the cheapest of the next 6 months to travel from Colombo to Paris, at €603.12 for one passenger. Each month is priced on its fifteenth, so the comparison is like for like rather than a mix of weekends and midweek departures.
Who runs service from Colombo to Paris?
1 operators sell services from Colombo to Paris across 1 modes: SriLankan Airlines. Journey times, fares and fare conditions differ between them, and the operator table on this page compares all of them on speed, flexibility and what is provided on board.
Is there a direct service from Colombo to Paris?
20 percent of the services we sell from Colombo to Paris are direct. The rest connect at Muscat, Luxembourg, Zürich, Istanbul, with about 45 minutes between the two services. Both legs are sold on one booking, so a missed connection is rebooked at no charge.
Which station or terminal do services from Colombo to Paris use?
Services from Colombo to Paris by Flight leave from Colombo CMB and arrive at Paris ORY. Allow about 3h 10m in total for reaching the departure terminal and leaving the arrival one, which is already included in every door to door time on this page.
Can I change or refund a ticket from Colombo to Paris?
0 of the 1 operators we sell from Colombo to Paris allow a change or a refund. A change on a changeable fare costs €5.00. The operator table on this page names which is which, and the condition is shown again before you pay.
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.
Every figure above was computed for Colombo to Paris on September 10, 2026: 8769 km of route against 8514 km in a straight line, 5 services a day, 1 operators, a cheapest fare of €736.46, and 14h 35m door to door on the fastest mode. The return direction is computed separately and its numbers are not these numbers.
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