Climate averages 1991–2020

Kandy weather
in January.

A warm, wet month: the 11th warmest and the 6th driest of the year.

Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.

Average high 25.7°C Daytime mean, January

Average low 19.1°C Night-time mean, January

Rainfall 110 mm 14 days with ≥1 mm

Daylight 12 h Sunrise to sunset, per day

January is a warm month in Kandy: daytime highs average 25.7°C and nights cool to about 19.1°C. By daytime temperature it is the 11th warmest of the 12 months.

Expect about 110 mm of rain on roughly 14 days, which makes January a wet month (the 6th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 11 h 45 min on an average January day.

The nearest other city in this atlas is Negombo (88 km away). In January its highs average 30.2°C, 4.5°C warmer than Kandy, with 38 mm of rain.

Among the 12 cities listed in Sri Lanka, Kandy ranks 12th of 12 for the warmest January highs and 9th of 12 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 12 cities is 28.2°C; Kandy is 2.5°C cooler than that mean.

From January to February, average highs rise by 1.7°C to 27.4°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 110 mm to 87 mm.

The annual picture

January in context

30-year average

Average highAverage low°C

Monthly rainfall

Average total · mm

Averages from hourly ERA5 reanalysis data. Actual weather varies from year to year. How these numbers are calculated

Every month, side by side

Kandy climate table

1991–2020

Monthly climate averages for Kandy, 1991–2020
Month	Average highHigh / low	Average low	Rainfall mm/month	Rain days ≥1 mm/day	Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day
January, selected	25.7°C19.1°C	19.1°C	110	14.4	11.712 h
February	27.4°C19.3°C	19.3°C	87	11.1	11.912 h
March	29.5°C20.4°C	20.4°C	83	10.9	12.112 h
April	29.1°C21.5°C	21.5°C	171	18.2	12.312 h
May	28.0°C22.0°C	22.0°C	125	19.8	12.412 h
June	27.0°C21.7°C	21.7°C	79	17.4	12.513 h
July	26.7°C21.3°C	21.3°C	83	18.3	12.513 h
August	26.8°C21.1°C	21.1°C	90	18.1	12.412 h
September	27.1°C21.0°C	21.0°C	121	19.2	12.212 h
October	26.9°C20.7°C	20.7°C	257	23.0	12.012 h
November	26.2°C20.4°C	20.4°C	274	23.7	11.812 h
December	25.5°C19.8°C	19.8°C	214	20.8	11.712 h

Rainfall is the average of the 30 separate monthly totals. A rain day is a local calendar day with at least 1 mm of precipitation. Daylight is the calculated sunrise-to-sunset length, not measured sunshine.

Compare places

January in nearby cities

Distance from Kandy

Read the numbers correctly

Climate, not a promise.

These patterns help compare months. They cannot tell you the weather on a specific day of your trip.

Sources, method and limits

How these numbers are made (what the highs, lows and rain days mean, the sources and the model cell used for Kandy) is explained once on the Kandy year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.