CMB
Bandaranaike International Colombo Airport
Bandaranaike International Colombo Airport (IATA: CMB, ICAO: VCBI) is a large airport in Colombo, Western Province, Sri Lanka. It opened in 1944. It has one runway, 3,350 m (10,991 ft) long, asphalt. It is operated by Sri Lanka Air Force. In 2019 it handled 10.0 million passengers.
Timeline
3 events · 1944–20001944
OpenedBandaranaike International Colombo Airport opens.
03 MAY 1986
DisasterAir Lanka Flight 512.21 killed
24 MAR 2000
DisasterQ120268703.9 killed
From WikidataEvery airfield, 1903–2026
Runways & airfield
Schematic · N · © OpenStreetMap04/22037° / 217° · LIT
LENGTH3,350 m10,991 ftWIDTH45 m148 ftSURFACEAsphalt
Passengers per year
2011–20196.2M
7.1M
7.3M
7.8M
8.5M
9.8M
10.0M
11121314151719
Routes
48 destinations · 26 countriesYear-round43
GIUSigiriya Air Force BaseSri Lanka · Cinnamon Air127 km79 miKCTKoggala AirportSri Lanka · Cinnamon Air141 km88 miWRZWeerawila AirportSri Lanka · Cinnamon Air181 km112 miBTCBatticaloa International AirportSri Lanka · Cinnamon Air206 km128 miTRRChina Bay AirportSri Lanka · Cinnamon Air208 km129 miIXMMadurai AirportIndia · SriLankan Airlines355 km221 miTRVThiruvananthapuram International AirportIndia · SriLankan Airlines357 km222 miTRZTiruchirappalli International AirportIndia · SriLankan Airlines418 km260 miCOKCochin International AirportIndia · SriLankan Airlines506 km314 miCJBCoimbatore International AirportIndia · SriLankan Airlines530 km329 miMAAChennai International AirportIndia · SriLankan Airlines647 km402 miBLRKempegowda International Airport BengaluruIndia · SriLankan Airlines710 km441 miMLEVelana International AirportMaldives · flydubai, Emirates, Gulf Air +1778 km483 miHYDRajiv Gandhi International AirportIndia · SriLankan Airlines1,129 km702 miGANGan International AirportMaldives · SriLankan Airlines1,151 km715 miBOMChhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International AirportIndia · Air India, SriLankan Airlines1,526 km948 miAMDSardar Vallabh Patel International AirportIndia · SriLankan Airlines1,930 km1,199 miDACHazrat Shahjalal International AirportBangladesh · SriLankan Airlines2,166 km1,346 miKTMTribhuvan International AirportNepal · SriLankan Airlines2,353 km1,462 miKHIJinnah International AirportPakistan · SriLankan Airlines2,391 km1,486 miBKKSuvarnabhumi AirportThailand · SriLankan Airlines2,392 km1,486 miDELIndira Gandhi International AirportIndia · Air India, SriLankan Airlines2,395 km1,488 miKULKuala Lumpur International AirportMalaysia · Batik Air Malaysia, SriLankan Airlines2,467 km1,533 miSINSingapore Changi AirportSingapore · Singapore Airlines, SriLankan Airlines2,750 km1,709 miLHEAllama Iqbal International AirportPakistan · SriLankan Airlines2,766 km1,719 miSGNTan Son Nhat International AirportVietnam · VietJet Air2,966 km1,843 miDXBDubai International AirportUnited Arab Emirates · flydubai, Emirates3,287 km2,042 miAUHZayed International AirportUnited Arab Emirates · Etihad Airways, Air Arabia Abu Dhabi3,301 km2,051 miCGKSoekarno-Hatta International AirportIndonesia · SriLankan Airlines3,318 km2,062 miDOHHamad International AirportQatar · Qatar Airways, SriLankan Airlines3,613 km2,245 miTFUChengdu Tianfu International AirportChina · Air China3,629 km2,255 miBAHBahrain International AirportBahrain · Gulf Air3,751 km2,331 miDMMKing Fahd International AirportSaudi Arabia · SriLankan Airlines3,835 km2,383 miCANGuangzhou Baiyun International AirportChina · SriLankan Airlines3,995 km2,482 miRUHKing Khalid International AirportSaudi Arabia · SriLankan Airlines4,040 km2,510 miKWIKuwait International AirportKuwait · SriLankan Airlines, Kuwait Airways4,142 km2,574 miICNIncheon International AirportSouth Korea · SriLankan Airlines5,768 km3,584 miNRTNarita International AirportJapan · SriLankan Airlines6,894 km4,284 miFRAFrankfurt Main AirportGermany · SriLankan Airlines8,067 km5,013 miMELMelbourne AirportAustralia · Jetstar Airways, SriLankan Airlines8,358 km5,193 miCDGCharles de Gaulle International AirportFrance · SriLankan Airlines8,483 km5,271 miLHRLondon Heathrow AirportUnited Kingdom · SriLankan Airlines8,715 km5,415 miSYDSydney Kingsford Smith International AirportAustralia · SriLankan Airlines8,763 km5,445 miSeasonal2
SVOSheremetyevo International AirportRussia · Aeroflot6,575 km4,086 miLGWLondon Gatwick AirportUnited Kingdom · British Airways8,694 km5,402 miCargo5
MAAChennai International AirportIndia · Afcom Holdings647 km402 miMLEVelana International AirportMaldives · Afcom Holdings778 km483 miKMGKunming Changshui International AirportChina · SF Airlines3,157 km1,962 miHKGHong Kong International AirportHong Kong SAR China · Magma Aviation4,013 km2,494 miJNBO.R. Tambo International AirportSouth Africa · Magma Aviation6,688 km4,156 miMost destinationsSriLankan Airlines 33Cinnamon Air 5flydubai 2Emirates 2Gulf Air 2Air India 2
Straight lines are great circles; rings mark true distance from CMB. Dashed: seasonal or charter. Blue: cargo. From the Wikipedia article “Bandaranaike International Airport” (revision of 20 Sep 2026), CC BY-SA 4.0.
Records & rankings
Ranked among 48,011 open airports · world · region · countryScale: share of airports ranked below, best on the right · ties shown as = and a band · passengers are each airport’s latest year on record
Radio frequencies
4 channelsAPPCOLOMBO APP120.900
ATISATIS127.200
GNDCOLOMBO GND121.900
TWRCOLOMBO TWR118.700