Cape Town (CPT) to Colombo (CMB): 4,906 miles (7,895 km) great-circle, about 10h 20m nonstop by our estimate. Cheapest fare observed: $877 round-trip on Qatar, with 1 stop, departing June 1, 2026.
$877 round-trip, Qatar QR1372, departing 2026-06-01 at 19:30, returning 2026-06-16. The recorded itinerary left on a Monday, returning on a Tuesday 15 nights later; the fare was observed 37 days before departure. "Book this flight" opens Kiwi.com with the same airline and dates.
At $877, it ranked 21st of the 30 round-trip fares we recorded from CPT (median $794). That is 17.9 cents per great-circle mile (round-trip price over one-way distance), below the CPT median of 28.3 cents across 30 round-trip routes.
Routes from CPT of similar length: Dubai (4,750 mi) at $857 and Istanbul (5,239 mi) at $671.
Qatar had the cheapest fare on 9 of 30 CPT routes. It is the 12th longest of the 30 routes we track from CPT.
Of 15 departure airports with a fare to Colombo, Cape Town (CPT) ranked 14th at $877. Lowest: $210 from Chennai (MAA); highest: $1494 from Edmonton (YEG); 5 nonstop. Cheapest-fare airlines (routes): IndiGo (3), SriLankan Airlines (2), Air Arabia Abu Dhabi (1), AirAsia (1), airline 01 (1) and Batik Air Malaysia (1), plus 6 more.
Travelpayouts fares (cheapest per route, observed April 25, 2026); OurAirports coordinates and elevations; IANA zones Africa/Johannesburg, Asia/Colombo; flight time is our estimate.