The cheapest Manchester to Colombo return flight on the radar right now is £627, flying with Etihad Airways via one or more connections. It covers departures in April 2027, and every dated link below opens that exact MAN–CMB search on Skyscanner. The price we usually record on this route is £650. Across 100 recorded checks it has ranged between £458 and £771. Our sampling points to April 2027 as the cheapest month to fly Manchester to Colombo.
Prices are re-checked against Skyscanner automatically, and every one shows when it was last confirmed, so nothing here is older than it looks. Not flying from Manchester? We track 63 other departure cities for Colombo, listed at the foot of this page.
Prices like this tend to vanish fast. If it has gone when you look, try the days either side of the dates above, since Manchester to Colombo is often still worth booking within a day or two of the fare we found.