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Sri Lanka

9 crossings between 3 ports, run by 5 operators, serving 5 cities. The busiest city is Colombo with 247 destinations, and the busiest port is Colombo with 9 crossings. 12 airports carry scheduled service, so most of this network can be left by air as well as by sea.

Cities

5 cities, each showing everything it reaches across every terminal and airport that serves it.

Colombo reaches 247 destinations
Galle reaches 10 destinations
Sigiriya reaches 8 destinations
Hatton reaches 8 destinations
Batticaloa reaches 7 destinations

The ports that matter

Ranked by how many crossings each carries. The first is 9× the second.

Colombo crossings 9 crossings on record
Trincomalee crossings 1 crossings on record
Galle crossings 1 crossings on record

Who runs the boats

5 operators appear in Sri Lanka crossings.

The longest and the shortest

6 of 9 crossings carry a time.

Longest held

Colombo – Hamburg central bus station 1296 h 00 Phoenix Reisen
Cape Town – Colombo 600 h 00 Phoenix Reisen
Colombo – Kolkata 552 h 00 Scenic Cruises
Colombo – Incheon 528 h 00 Phoenix Reisen
Colombo – Port Louis 408 h 00 Hapag Lloyd Cruises
Colombo – Singapore 264 h 00 Hapag Lloyd Cruises

Shortest held

Colombo – Singapore 264 h 00 Hapag Lloyd Cruises
Colombo – Port Louis 408 h 00 Hapag Lloyd Cruises
Colombo – Incheon 528 h 00 Phoenix Reisen
Colombo – Kolkata 552 h 00 Scenic Cruises
Cape Town – Colombo 600 h 00 Phoenix Reisen
Colombo – Hamburg central bus station 1296 h 00 Phoenix Reisen

Every crossing we hold

All 9 of them, alphabetically, 25 at a time. Each has its own page.

Cape Town – Colombo 600 h 00 Phoenix Reisen
Colombo – Galle not held Sri Lanka Ferries
Colombo – Hamburg central bus station 1296 h 00 Phoenix Reisen
Colombo – Incheon 528 h 00 Phoenix Reisen
Colombo – Kolkata 552 h 00 Scenic Cruises
Colombo – Port Louis 408 h 00 Hapag Lloyd Cruises
Colombo – Singapore 264 h 00 Hapag Lloyd Cruises
Colombo – Trincomalee not held Sri Lanka Ferries
Colombo – Tuticorin not held Tuticorin-Colombo Ferry Service

Which months these run

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

Our records for Sri Lanka ferry crossings 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.