Compare trains, buses, flights and ferries from Riyadh to Colombo. From €330.54, fastest 8h 49m, with the total price and every fee shown up front.
Traveling from Riyadh to Colombo costs €330.54 at the cheapest and takes 8h 49m door to door at the fastest, across 1 mode and 2 operators. The route covers 4,159 km. Cheapest is by Flight, fastest is by Flight.
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.
| Mode | Door to door | Moving | At the ends | From | CO2 | Per day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Flight | 9h 20m | 6h 10m | 3h 10m | €408.42 | 615.5 kg | 6 |
Two journeys we can sell today, with the service number each operator files them under.
Changes at Thiruvananthapuram, with 80 minutes between services and a walk of about 5 minutes.
Door to door 10h 42mCO2 652.3 kgChanges 1Fixed, no changes
Door to door 9h 20mCO2 615.5 kgChanges 0Fixed, no changes
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.
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.
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 Riyadh to Colombo | WedSep 9 | ThuSep 10 | FriSep 11 | SatSep 12 | SunSep 13 | MonSep 14 | TueSep 15 | WedSep 16 | ThuSep 17 | FriSep 18 | SatSep 19 | SunSep 20 | MonSep 21 | TueSep 22 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Flight | €735.87 | €833.22 | €852.10 | €665.66 | €588.96 | €561.82 | €481.58 | €459.16 | €527.01 | €503.41 | €591.32 | €512.26 | €408.42 | €499.87 |
Cheapest day: 2026-09-28 · €330.54
The flight gets you into Colombo. 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.
The same journey priced on the fifteenth of each of the next six months.
Direct or connecting, how far the route really runs, and what happens when a connection is missed.
The stations, airports and ports each mode on this corridor actually uses.
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.
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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Speed, flexibility and what is on board. Nothing here is a rating, because we have not earned one.
| Operator | From |
|---|---|
| Saudia | €346.47 |
| SriLankan Airlines | €354.14 |
Every part of the total, so the number at checkout is the number here.
| Part | Amount | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Operator fare | €272.50 | 82% |
| Taxes | €49.05 | 15% |
| Supplier fees | €7.00 | 2% |
| Our service fee | €1.99 | 1% |
| Total you pay | €330.54 | 100% |
We cannot promise Fort Railway Station still has a baggage check, because plenty of stations closed theirs.
Stores, cafes and hotels that take luggage, with the hours on the map so you know what is still open when you come back.
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The fastest journey from Riyadh to Colombo takes 8h 49m door to door, of which 6h 10m is spent moving, on the Flight. Most services take around 9h 16m, because that average includes slower stopping services and journeys with a connection. Times include reaching the terminal and leaving it at the far end.
The cheapest fare from Riyadh to Colombo is €330.54, checked on September 28, 2026. A typical fare across the next three weeks is €558.58. Both figures are the total for one passenger, including taxes, supplier fees and our service fee, so nothing is added at checkout.
The cheapest way from Riyadh to Colombo is by Flight, at €408.42 for one passenger on September 28, 2026. That journey takes 9h 20m 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.
Fares from Riyadh to Colombo bottom out around 90 days before departure, at €335.26. Across the whole booking window the gap between the cheapest and the most expensive lead time is 154 percent, measured on September 28, 2026. Booking inside the last week has consistently cost more on this corridor.
Monday is the cheapest day to depart from Riyadh to Colombo, at €408.42. 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.
February is the cheapest of the next 6 months to travel from Riyadh to Colombo, at €253.25 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.
2 operators sell services from Riyadh to Colombo across 1 modes: Saudia, 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.
33 percent of the services we sell from Riyadh to Colombo are direct. The rest connect at Kochi, Abu Dhabi, Thiruvananthapuram, Doha, with about 60 minutes between the two services. Both legs are sold on one booking, so a missed connection is rebooked at no charge.
Services from Riyadh to Colombo by Flight leave from Riyadh RUH and arrive at Colombo CMB. 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.
0 of the 2 operators we sell from Riyadh to Colombo 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.
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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The flight is the simple part. What you do once you are in Colombo is somebody else's catalog.
The tickets worth having in advance, because the line at the door is usually the whole morning.
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