Climate averages 1991–2020
Negombo weather
in March.
A hot, moderately wet month: one of the warmest and the 3rd driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
March is a hot month in Negombo: daytime highs average 31.8°C and nights cool to about 24.8°C. By daytime temperature it is one of the warmest months of the year.
Expect about 76 mm of rain on roughly 16 days, which makes March a moderately wet month (the 3rd 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 Colombo (30 km away). In March its highs average 31.6°C, about as warm as Negombo, with 75 mm of rain.
Among the 12 cities listed in Sri Lanka, Negombo ranks 1st of 12 for the warmest March highs and 10th of 12 for the driest March (rainfall, lowest first). The mean March high of those 12 cities is 30.5°C; Negombo is 1.3°C warmer than that mean.
From March to April, average highs fall by 1.1°C to 30.7°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 76 mm to 163 mm.
The annual picture
March in context
Monthly rainfall
Average total · mmAverages from hourly ERA5 reanalysis data. Actual weather varies from year to year. How these numbers are calculated
Every month, side by side
Negombo climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 30.2°C23.2°C | 23.2°C | 38 | 6.2 | 11.812 h |
| February | 31.8°C23.7°C | 23.7°C | 40 | 6.5 | 11.912 h |
| March, selected | 31.8°C24.8°C | 24.8°C | 76 | 15.8 | 12.112 h |
| April | 30.7°C25.5°C | 25.5°C | 163 | 26.0 | 12.312 h |
| May | 29.6°C25.7°C | 25.7°C | 255 | 28.6 | 12.412 h |
| June | 28.8°C25.4°C | 25.4°C | 224 | 27.0 | 12.513 h |
| July | 28.5°C25.2°C | 25.2°C | 176 | 24.5 | 12.512 h |
| August | 28.4°C25.0°C | 25.0°C | 165 | 23.9 | 12.412 h |
| September | 28.6°C24.9°C | 24.9°C | 215 | 25.3 | 12.212 h |
| October | 28.8°C24.5°C | 24.5°C | 315 | 26.4 | 12.012 h |
| November | 29.0°C24.0°C | 24.0°C | 271 | 22.3 | 11.812 h |
| December | 29.1°C23.5°C | 23.5°C | 137 | 14.1 | 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
- Colombo in MarchSri Lanka · 30 kmHigh 31.6°C · Low 24.4°C · 75 mm rain
- Dehiwala-Mount Lavinia in MarchSri Lanka · 41 kmHigh 31.0°C · Low 24.5°C · 75 mm rain
- Kandy in MarchSri Lanka · 88 kmHigh 29.5°C · Low 20.4°C · 83 mm rain
- Galle in MarchSri Lanka · 136 kmHigh 29.6°C · Low 24.7°C · 65 mm rain
- Matara in MarchSri Lanka · 160 kmHigh 30.5°C · Low 24.6°C · 99 mm rain
- Ambalantota in MarchSri Lanka · 178 kmHigh 31.7°C · Low 24.4°C · 58 mm rain
- Batticaloa in MarchSri Lanka · 212 kmHigh 30.2°C · Low 24.0°C · 52 mm rain
- Trincomalee in MarchSri Lanka · 216 kmHigh 30.0°C · Low 25.1°C · 40 mm rain
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 limitsHow these numbers are made (what the highs, lows and rain days mean, the sources and the model cell used for Negombo) is explained once on the Negombo year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.