Colombo Ratmalana International 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 RML to the nearest major hubs
Great-circle distance and estimated flight time to the closest large international airports — the realistic connecting points from Colombo.
| Hub | Code | Distance | Flight time |
|---|---|---|---|
| Colombo, Sri Lanka | CMB | 40 km | 28m |
| Kochi, India | COK | 533 km | 1h 05m |
| Chennai, India | MAA | 687 km | 1h 16m |
| Bengaluru, India | BLR | 748 km | 1h 21m |
| Malé, Maldives | MLE | 762 km | 1h 22m |
| Vasco da Gama, India | GOI | 1,158 km | 1h 52m |
| Hyderabad, India | HYD | 1,168 km | 1h 52m |
| Pune, India | PNQ | 1,459 km | 2h 14m |
| Mumbai, India | BOM | 1,561 km | 2h 22m |
| Ahmedabad, India | AMD | 1,967 km | 2h 52m |
SOURCE·OurAirports + great-circle computation·REVIEWED JUL 2026
Other airports in Sri Lanka
Questions about RML
What is the airport code for Colombo?
Colombo Ratmalana International Airport uses the IATA code RML and the ICAO code VCCC. IATA codes are the three-letter ones on your boarding pass; ICAO codes are four letters and used by air traffic control.
Where is Colombo Ratmalana International Airport?
It sits at 6.8216° N, 79.8859° E, serving Colombo in Sri Lanka, at an elevation of 22 feet.
Data from OurAirports (public domain) · Wikipedia. Flight times are great-circle estimates for planning only — always check the airline's published schedule.
