Climate averages 1991–2020

Kandy weather
in March.

A hot, moderately wet month: the warmest and the joint 2nd driest of the year.

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

Average high 29.5°C Daytime mean, March

Average low 20.4°C Night-time mean, March

Rainfall 83 mm 11 days with ≥1 mm

Daylight 12 h Sunrise to sunset, per day

March is a hot month in Kandy: daytime highs average 29.5°C and nights cool to about 20.4°C. By daytime temperature it is the warmest month of the year.

Expect about 83 mm of rain on roughly 11 days, which makes March a moderately wet month (the joint 2nd driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 12 h 05 min on an average March day.

The nearest other city in this atlas is Negombo (88 km away). In March its highs average 31.8°C, 2.2°C warmer than Kandy, with 76 mm of rain.

Among the 12 cities listed in Sri Lanka, Kandy ranks joint 11th of 12 for the warmest March highs and 11th of 12 for the driest March (rainfall, lowest first). The mean March high of those 12 cities is 30.5°C; Kandy is 0.9°C cooler than that mean.

From March to April, average highs fall by 0.5°C to 29.1°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 83 mm to 171 mm.

The annual picture

March 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	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, selected	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

March 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.