Best: Jan-Feb · Great: Mar
It stays hot year-round here, but swings between a heavy monsoon centered on May and a markedly drier stretch around February. In February, expect highs around 31°C with rain on roughly 4 days of the month.
Galle's Dutch colonial fort, with its ramparts and cobbled streets, is one of the best-preserved examples of European colonial architecture in Asia. The beaches around Mirissa and Unawatuna are the main draw for sun-and-surf travelers, and whale watching off Mirissa (blue whales, seasonally) is genuinely one of the better wildlife experiences on this coast. A train ride up into the hill country (Ella, Nuwara Eliya) through tea plantations is a classic add-on, though it starts further inland.
Try Sri Lankan rice and curry, and hoppers (bowl-shaped fermented pancakes).
Daylight, sunrise, and sunset are calculated exactly from this region's latitude. Temperature and rainfall are modeled from its general climate type, not measured station data. Month summaries are generated from those modeled figures.
Expect hot days around 31°/23°C, with occasional rain (~5 rainy days).
Expect hot days around 31°/24°C, with occasional rain (~4 rainy days).
Expect hot days around 32°/25°C, with occasional rain (~7 rainy days).
Expect hot days around 31°/25°C, with frequent rain (~15 rainy days).
Expect warm days around 30°/25°C, with very wet conditions (~25 rainy days).
Expect warm days around 30°/25°C, with very wet conditions (~22 rainy days).
Expect warm days around 30°/25°C, with very wet conditions (~18 rainy days).
Expect warm days around 30°/25°C, with very wet conditions (~16 rainy days).
Expect warm days around 30°/24°C, with very wet conditions (~18 rainy days).
Expect warm days around 29°/24°C, with very wet conditions (~22 rainy days).
Expect warm days around 29°/24°C, with very wet conditions (~17 rainy days).
Expect warm days around 30°/23°C, with frequent rain (~10 rainy days).