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Colombo to Chennai

1 operator run this water, from 1 h 19.

Every way across

One row per operator and speed. Where a service is sold as fast and its average does not clear 45 km/h, the word appears in quotation marks — the boat is fast craft, the crossing is not.

Air India Limited, L CMB → MAA 647 km non-stop 320 321 332 in the air 2 h 49 est. rate not held 495 km/h average

Other ways to reach Chennai

If this crossing does not suit, these quays also reach Chennai without a change. It is the question a single-route page cannot answer about itself and an atlas can.

Bengaluru – Chennai 50 min Air India Limited
Tiruchirappalli – Chennai 52 min Air India Express
Coimbatore – Chennai 1 h 00 Air Sahara
Madurai – Chennai 1 h 01 Air India Limited
Calicut – Chennai 1 h 08 Spicejet
Hyderabad – Chennai 1 h 08 Air India Limited
Kochi – Chennai 1 h 09 Air India Limited
Thiruvananthapuram – Chennai 1 h 16 Air India Express
Visakhapatnam – Chennai 1 h 16 IndiGo Airlines
Vasco da Gama – Chennai 1 h 25 Air India Limited

And other ways to reach Colombo

Sigiriya – Colombo 40 min SriLankan Airlines
Galle – Colombo 41 min Sri Lanka Ferries, SriLankan Airlines
Malé – Colombo 1 h 28 British Airways
Gan – Colombo 1 h 56 Maldivian
Mumbai – Colombo 2 h 24 Air India Limited

Where else these quays go

Which months this runs

Season not heldwe can say when we looked, not which months run

Our records for the Colombo–Chennai crossing were read on 11 August 2026 and describe the network as it ran that week. We hold no month-by-month variation, so this page cannot tell you whether a crossing runs in February.

If you are travelling well outside August 2026, confirm with the operator before you plan around it.

What we do not know

No fares. Not for this crossing, not for any crossing, not for any mode.

No departure times. No rate is held for this pair either, so we cannot say how often it runs.