Sri Lanka · 1991–2020

Best time to visit
Kataragama.

January leads for comfortable weather in Kataragama: typically 31°C by day, 23.2°C at night, with 42 mm of rain. Based on measured 1991–2020 NOAA station history.

Best comfortJanuary

Typical high31°C

Typical low23.2°C

Rain in January42 mm

Comfort

January

January · February · March

61climate match

Beach

January

January · February · March

86climate match

Outdoors

January

January · February · March

42climate match

The weakest month is November, scoring 31 against January’s 61 — 198 mm of rain falls, and days average 30.6°C, 7° above the 24°C the score treats as ideal.

Month by month

The whole year,
without the guesswork.

The bars show the comfort score. Day and night temperatures come from daily observed highs and lows; rain is the historical monthly estimate.

Jan

6131° / 23.2°

Feb

5931.4° / 23.3°

Mar

5732° / 24.1°

Apr

4531.8° / 25.2°

May

4731.1° / 25.8°

Jun

5331° / 25.3°

Jul

5631.5° / 25.1°

Aug

5231° / 24.8°

Sep

4530.5° / 24.8°

Oct

4430.7° / 24.5°

Nov

3130.6° / 24°

Dec

4530.4° / 23.5°

Monthly climate evidence for Kataragama — daylight is calculated from latitude, everything else is measured, sea temperature from the nearest open water 32 km away
Month	Day	Night	Rain	Wet days	Sea	Daylight	Comfort	Coverage
January	31°C	23.2°C	42 mm	3.5	27.4°C	11 h 47	61	Good coverage
February	31.4°C	23.3°C	41 mm	3.7	27.9°C	11 h 55	59	Good coverage
March	32°C	24.1°C	31 mm	2.9	28.8°C	12 h 04	57	Good coverage
April	31.8°C	25.2°C	87 mm	6.6	29.6°C	12 h 15	45	Good coverage
May	31.1°C	25.8°C	78 mm	7.4	28.9°C	12 h 25	47	Good coverage
June	31°C	25.3°C	44 mm	7	28.4°C	12 h 30	53	Good coverage
July	31.5°C	25.1°C	25 mm	4.3	28.1°C	12 h 28	56	Good coverage
August	31°C	24.8°C	62 mm	6.3	27.8°C	12 h 20	52	Good coverage
September	30.5°C	24.8°C	111 mm	8.3	27.8°C	12 h 09	45	Good coverage
October	30.7°C	24.5°C	111 mm	9.5	28.4°C	11 h 58	44	Good coverage
November	30.6°C	24°C	198 mm	12.9	28.5°C	11 h 49	31	Good coverage
December	30.4°C	23.5°C	124 mm	9.6	27.8°C	11 h 45	45	Good coverage

Records at HAMBANTOTA, 1869–2025
Month	Record high	Record low	Wettest day	Wettest / driest month	Years
January	34.7°C7 Jan 1999	17.7°C20 Jan 1899	105 mm17 Jan 1989	211 mm2011 · driest 0 mm in 1988	140
February	35.7°C23 Feb 2025	15.6°C16 Feb 1918	105 mm14 Feb 2013	169 mm2013 · driest 0 mm in 2014	141
March	35.3°C24 Mar 1902	17.4°C10 Mar 1908	81 mm18 Mar 1985	125 mm1985 · driest 0 mm in 1998	143
April	36.0°C21 Apr 1892	18.9°C17 Apr 1899	98 mm29 Apr 1995	257 mm1995 · driest 0 mm in 1967	144
May	36.4°C7 May 1904	19.5°C28 May 1897	80 mm26 May 2017	205 mm2018 · driest 0 mm in 1991	142
June	37.2°C3 Jun 1881	21.2°C7 Jun 1993	70 mm18 Jun 1973	118 mm1973 · driest 0 mm in 1988	142
July	36.3°C23 Jul 2023	19.6°C1 Jul 1933	37 mm31 Jul 2022	114 mm2021 · driest 0 mm in 1988	145
August	39.2°C22 Aug 1999	20.1°C10 Aug 1893	73 mm16 Aug 2002	166 mm2019 · driest 0 mm in 1988	143
September	36.5°C27 Sep 2022	20.6°C8 Sep 1888	130 mm15 Sep 2019	473 mm2023 · driest 0 mm in 1988	142
October	36.9°C31 Oct 1901	20.2°C31 Oct 1917	230 mm2 Oct 2023	523 mm2023 · driest 0 mm in 1963	142
November	36.7°C12 Nov 1874	19.6°C1 Nov 1917	192 mm22 Nov 1989	277 mm2009 · driest 0 mm in 1992	141
December	34.8°C7 Dec 2011	18.2°C30 Dec 1937	111 mm21 Dec 1957	391 mm2023 · driest 0 mm in 1989	141

Typical days per month at HAMBANTOTA, 1991–2020
Month	Days 25°C+	Days 30°C+	Heavy rain (10 mm+)
January	27	21	<1
February	25	22	<1
March	27	26	<1
April	27	26	2
May	28	24	1
June	27	18	<1
July	27	20	<1
August	29	20	1
September	28	19	2
October	27	21	2
November	26	19	4
December	26	19	3

How often, not how much — every day in HAMBANTOTA’s record sorted by what it was actually like, rather than averaged
Month	Warm & dry days	Wet days	Washouts	Week with 3+ wet days	Daytime mean has ranged
January	84%	15%	4%	14%	28.7–31.0°C
February	88%	13%	4%	13%	29.4–31.7°C
March	85%	14%	5%	8%	30.2–32.1°C
April	78%	22%	8%	20%	30.6–32.1°C
May	78%	23%	7%	27%	29.9–31.7°C
June	77%	21%	4%	26%	29.3–31.9°C
July	85%	15%	3%	13%	29.7–32.3°C
August	80%	20%	7%	24%	29.4–31.9°C
September	73%	29%	11%	41%	29.4–31.3°C
October	65%	34%	11%	45%	29.4–31.3°C
November	56%	42%	17%	58%	29.3–31.1°C
December	70%	31%	13%	40%	28.8–30.6°C

A warm and dry day reaches 20°C with under 1 mm of rain; a wet day gets 1 mm or more; a washout gets 10 mm or more. The week column is the share of seven-day stretches in that month, across the station’s whole daily record, that contained three or more wet days — the odds a week-long trip is rained on repeatedly, counted rather than modelled. The last column is the 10th to 90th percentile of that month’s daytime average across individual years: a narrow band means the average is what you will get, a wide one means the average is a midpoint between years that felt quite different.

1869Each stripe is one year’s mean temperature against the 109-year average. Warmest: 1998. Coolest: 1885.2012

The evidence behind this page

Nearby, measured,
and named.

Place identity: GeoNames 1241076
NOAA station: CE000043497 · HAMBANTOTA
Station distance: 39.8 km from the place centre
Climate period: 1991–2020
Minimum month coverage: 17 usable years
Daylight: Calculated from latitude 6.41°, mid-month, sunrise to sunset including refraction. Not a station measurement.
Sea temperature: NOAA OISST v2.1 1991–2020 monthly climatology, nearest open water 32 km from the place centre. A sheltered bay can run warmer than the open sea it is measured from.
Important limit: Historical climate is not a forecast. Nearby stations can miss mountains, coasts, and local microclimates.

These places read the same station, so their numbers are identical — distance from HAMBANTOTA is what differs

Ambalantota→Beliatta→Hambantota→Tangalle→Wanduruppa→Ekkassa→

Or put two places side by side: Kataragama vs Ambalantota

Best time to visitKataragama.

January

January

January

The whole year,without the guesswork.

Nearby, measured,and named.

Best time to visit
Kataragama.

The whole year,
without the guesswork.

Nearby, measured,
and named.