Weather in Colombo, month by month
- Warmest month
- April, 27.6
- Coldest month
- January, 25.4
- Wettest month
- November, 305 mm
- Year
- 2001-2020
Same data, same method, different place.
Your own numbers, worked out on the page.
Across the 2001-2020 normals, the warmest month in Colombo is April at 27.6 degrees and the coldest is January at 25.4, a swing of 2.2 degrees over the year. Those are monthly averages for the model cell the city sits in, not readings from a weather station in it.
Rain is heaviest in November, about 305 mm, and lightest in February at roughly 71 mm. Over a full year the cell above Colombo collects around 1,999 mm.
No month in Colombo averages between 15 and 24 degrees, so the year does not pass through what this page calls mild at all.
Humidity peaks in July at 87 percent, and the windiest month is June at 4.4 metres per second. Both are monthly means from the same twenty year series as the temperatures.
Rainfall is not spread evenly: 57 per cent of the year total falls in July, August, September, October, November and December.
Every figure here comes from one NASA POWER grid cell, at 6.94, 79.85, covering Colombo on the 2001-2020 climatology. One cell, one period and one provider for every month, which is what makes the twelve rows comparable with each other.
The source publishes a monthly mean and, separately, the highest and lowest values it recorded in twenty years. Those extremes are not a typical afternoon or a typical night, so nothing here is quoted as one. This page does not say what the daytime high usually is, because this source cannot say it.
Normals are not a forecast. They describe what twenty years averaged to, and any single year can sit well outside them. They also describe a model grid cell of roughly fifty kilometres rather than a weather station, so a coastal city and the sea beside it share one figure.
Weather in Colombo, month by month
| Month | Mean temperature | Rainfall | Humidity |
|---|---|---|---|
| January | 25.4 | 76 mm | 80% |
| February | 26.2 | 71 mm | 77% |
| March | 27.4 | 115 mm | 76% |
| April | 27.6 | 226 mm | 81% |
| May | 27.3 | 224 mm | 86% |
| June | 26.7 | 143 mm | 87% |
| July | 26.1 | 99 mm | 87% |
| August | 26.1 | 113 mm | 86% |
| September | 26.2 | 162 mm | 85% |
| October | 26.2 | 292 mm | 85% |
| November | 26.1 | 305 mm | 85% |
| December | 25.6 | 175 mm | 84% |
Questions
What is the warmest month in Colombo?
April, on the 2001-2020 monthly averages.
What is the coldest month in Colombo?
January, on the same twenty year series.
When does it rain most in Colombo?
November carries the highest monthly total in the 2001-2020 normals.
Same data, same method, different place.
Your own numbers, worked out on the page.
Related pages
Sources
- NASA POWER, https://power.larc.nasa.gov/api/temporal/climatology/point (CC BY 4.0; 'There are no restrictions on the use, access, and/or download of data from the NASA POWER Project' (AWS Open Data Registry entry))