Sri Lanka
When to go?
Mean 26 °C, 8 rain days in the month (140 mm).
Against
- Hothighs of 29 °C
Mean 26 °C, 5 rain days in the month (93 mm).
Against
- Hothighs of 30 °C
Mean 28 °C, 6 rain days in the month (94 mm).
Against
- Hothighs of 32 °C
Mean 28 °C, 11 rain days in the month (154 mm).
Against
- Hothighs of 32 °C
Mean 28 °C, 11 rain days in the month (119 mm).
Against
- Hothighs of 32 °C
Mean 28 °C, 9 rain days in the month (73 mm).
Against
- Hothighs of 32 °C
Mean 28 °C, 9 rain days in the month (77 mm).
Against
- Hothighs of 32 °C
Mean 28 °C, 9 rain days in the month (93 mm).
Against
- Hothighs of 32 °C
Mean 28 °C, 11 rain days in the month (125 mm).
Against
- Hothighs of 32 °C
Mean 27 °C, 16 rain days in the month (270 mm).
Against
- Hothighs of 31 °C
- Often rainyrain on 5 days in 10
Mean 26 °C, 17 rain days in the month (331 mm).
Against
- Hothighs of 29 °C
- Often rainyrain on 6 days in 10
- Torrential rain19 mm per rain day
Mean 26 °C, 13 rain days in the month (232 mm).
Against
- Hothighs of 29 °C
No ideal month: the best month is February, the least hot. Avoid March–October (hot, at times often rainy), December–January (hot), November (hot and often rainy and torrential rain).
Climate zones
- Freezing, dry
- Freezing
- Freezing, wet
- Cold, dry
- Cold
- Cold, wet
- Mild, dry
- Mild
- Mild, wet
- Hot, arid
- Hot
- Hot, wet
- Torrid, arid
- Torrid
- Torrid, wet
Mean maximum and minimum temperature and mean monthly precipitation of the season (the mean of its three months), ERA5-Land 1996–2025, at about 9 km resolution: colours are in levels (the same as the city scale) and smaller details are not real.
What is the climate like?
Area mean indicative, over the whole territory
Temperature and rain
Monthly min and max temperature (°C)
Monthly min and max temperature (°C)
How much it rains
Rain days and how much water
Rain days and how much water
Bars: length = rain days, thickness = mm on a rain day, area = the month's rain. 3 mm a day7 mm a day15 mm a day
Colour = the month's rain: 103060100160250400mm
Daylight hours
Mean daylight hours over the whole territory.
Spatial mean over the whole area, weighted by area (cosine of the latitude), not by population: indicative only, since the climate varies a lot within an area (coasts, plains, mountains). Look at the cities for the weather you will find.