Bandaranaike International Colombo Airport
Colombo, Sri Lanka — flight times and distances to airports around the world, computed from published coordinates.
SOURCE·OurAirports + great-circle computation·REVIEWED JUL 2026
How this is worked out
- Both airports' coordinates come from OurAirports, a public-domain dataset — nothing is scraped from another flight site.
- Distance is a great-circle (haversine) figure on a mean earth radius of 6,371.0088 km, so it is the shortest path over the surface, not a road distance.
- Airborne time is that distance divided by 805 km/h, a representative jet cruise speed.
- A flat 25 minutes is added for pushback, taxi, climb, descent and taxi-in, which is why no hop is ever half an hour gate to gate.
- Winds, aircraft type and airline schedule padding are not modelled, and every route page shows the same distance at four cruise speeds so you can see what that assumption is worth.
gate-to-gate hours = 0.42 + distance km / 805
SOURCE·OurAirports + great-circle computation·REVIEWED JUL 2026
Flight times from CMB
| Destination | Code | Distance | Flight time |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kochi, India | COK | 506 km | 1h 03m |
| Chennai, India | MAA | 647 km | 1h 13m |
| Bengaluru, India | BLR | 710 km | 1h 18m |
| Malé, Maldives | MLE | 778 km | 1h 23m |
| Vasco da Gama, India | GOI | 1,125 km | 1h 49m |
| Hyderabad, India | HYD | 1,129 km | 1h 49m |
| Pune, India | PNQ | 1,423 km | 2h 11m |
| Mumbai, India | BOM | 1,526 km | 2h 19m |
| Ahmedabad, India | AMD | 1,930 km | 2h 49m |
| Kolkata, India | CCU | 1,950 km | 2h 51m |
| Phuket, Thailand | HKT | 2,034 km | 2h 57m |
| Yangon, Myanmar | RGN | 2,069 km | 2h 59m |
| Dhaka, Bangladesh | DAC | 2,166 km | 3h 07m |
| Lucknow, India | LKO | 2,180 km | 3h 08m |
| London, United Kingdom | LHR | 8,715 km | 11h 15m |
| New York, United States | JFK | 14,054 km | 17h 53m |
| Los Angeles, United States | LAX | 15,053 km | 19h 07m |
| Dubai, United Arab Emirates | DXB | 3,287 km | 4h 30m |
| Paris (Roissy-en-France, Val-d'Oise), France | CDG | 8,483 km | 10h 57m |
| Amsterdam, Netherlands | AMS | 8,367 km | 10h 49m |
| Frankfurt am Main, Germany | FRA | 8,067 km | 10h 26m |
| Singapore, Singapore | SIN | 2,750 km | 3h 50m |
| Hong Kong, Hong Kong | HKG | 4,013 km | 5h 24m |
| Narita, Japan | NRT | 6,894 km | 8h 59m |
| Seoul, South Korea | ICN | 5,768 km | 7h 35m |
| Istanbul, Turkey | IST | 6,296 km | 8h 14m |
| Doha, Qatar | DOH | 3,613 km | 4h 54m |
| Sydney (Mascot), Australia | SYD | 8,763 km | 11h 18m |
| Chicago, United States | ORD | 14,410 km | 18h 19m |
| Beijing, China | PEK | 5,164 km | 6h 50m |
| Sepang, Malaysia | KUL | 2,467 km | 3h 29m |
| Plaine Magnien, Mauritius | MRU | 3,914 km | 5h 17m |
| Victoria, Seychelles | SEZ | 3,008 km | 4h 09m |
SOURCE·OurAirports + great-circle computation·REVIEWED JUL 2026
Other airports in Sri Lanka
Questions about CMB
What is the airport code for Colombo?
Bandaranaike International Colombo Airport uses the IATA code CMB and the ICAO code VCBI. IATA codes are the three-letter ones on your boarding pass; ICAO codes are four letters and used by air traffic control.
Where is Bandaranaike International Colombo Airport?
It sits at 7.1808° N, 79.8841° E, serving Colombo in Sri Lanka, at an elevation of 30 feet.
Data from OurAirports (public domain) · Wikipedia. Flight times are great-circle estimates for planning only — always check the airline's published schedule.
