Badulla climate — normals and trends

Q: What is the climate of Badulla?

Badulla has a tropical monsoon climate (Köppen Am). Over 1940-2025, the average annual temperature is 22.9 °C and it receives 1,665 mm of precipitation per year.

Q: What is the hottest day ever recorded in Badulla?

The hottest day measured in Badulla between 1940 and 2025 was 24 September 1976, reaching 35.4 °C.

Q: What is the coldest day in Badulla?

The coldest day measured in Badulla between 1940 and 2025 was 10 February 1967, at 11.6 °C.

Q: Does it snow in Badulla?

Almost never: Badulla sees virtually no snow, with about 0 frost days per year.

Q: Has the climate of Badulla warmed?

Yes: Badulla warmed by +1.3 °C between 1940 and 2025, a statistically significant trend.

Q: What is the wettest day in Badulla?

The wettest day measured in Badulla between 1940 and 2025 was 6 November 2018, with 224 mm of rain in 24 hours.

Q: What was the windiest day in Badulla?

The windiest day measured in Badulla between 1940 and 2025 was 24 June 1985, with winds reaching 22.9 km/h.

Q: What is the warmest month in Badulla?

The warmest month in Badulla is June (24.8 °C on average); the coldest is January (20.2 °C).

Q: How much does it rain in Badulla?

Badulla receives on average 1,665 mm of precipitation per year, spread over about 194 rainy days.

Q: Is it sunny in Badulla?

Badulla gets on average 10.2 hours of sunshine per day, roughly 3,723 hours per year over 1940-2025.

Badulla (Sri Lanka) has a tropical monsoon climate (Am) under the Köppen-Geiger classification. Its mean annual temperature is 22.9 °C and it receives 1,665 mm of precipitation per year.

These figures are normals computed over 86 complete calendar years, from 1940 to 2025, using ERA5 reanalysis data from the Copernicus programme.

The warmest month is June (24.8 °C on average) and the coldest is January (20.2 °C). Rainfall peaks in October.

Badulla averages 0 frost days, 77 hot days (≥ 30 °C) and 194 rainy days per year.

Badulla has warmed by +1.3 °C between 1940 and 2025, or +0.16 °C per decade. This trend is statistically significant.

The hottest day of the period reached 35.4 °C (on 24 September 1976) and the coldest 11.6 °C (on 10 February 1967).

Data from ERA5 reanalysis (Copernicus Climate Change Service), redistributed under a CC-BY 4.0 licence. Normals are recomputed whenever the archive is updated.

Climate normals · ERA5

BadullaUva Province

coords: 6.98°, 81.06°
period: 1940–2025 · 86 yrs

AmTropical monsoonWarmest monthJuneColdest monthJanuaryWettest monthOctoberDriest monthJune

Mean daily temperature

22.9°C

Average daily high

27.3°C

Average daily low

19.4°C

Annual rainfall

1,665mm

Sunshine / day

10.2h

Mean relative humidity

77%

Average peak wind

9.1km/h

Seasonal range

4.6°C

Frost days (< 0 °C)

0 d/yr

Hot days (≥ 30 °C)

77 d/yr

Rainy days (≥ 1 mm)

194 d/yr

Annual snowfall

0.0 cm

Average feels-like high

30.6 °C

Average feels-like low

21.5 °C

Average peak gust

32.6 km/h

Tropical nights (≥ 20 °C)

147 d/yr

Solar radiation

19.2 MJ/m²

Has the climate changed?

One stripe per year, 1940 to 2025

+1.3 °C

since 1940

+0.2 °C per decade · r² = 0.52 · p = < 0.001

19402025

Trend fitted by linear regression (ordinary least squares) on annual means. A trend is shown only when it is statistically significant (p < 0.05).

A climograph overlays rainfall (bars) and temperature (line): the standard reading in climatology, where you can see at a glance whether the warm season is also the dry one.

Records for the period

Hottest day

35.4 °C

24 September 1976

Coldest day

11.6 °C

10 February 1967

Wettest day

224 mm

6 November 2018

Windiest day

22.9 km/h

24 June 1985

Strongest gust

92.9 km/h

24 November 1978

Hottest feels-like

38.5 °C

31 May 1998

Coldest feels-like

10.0 °C

12 February 2001

Sunniest day

12.4 h

16 June 1971

Year	Hottest day	Coldest day	Annual mean	Rainfall	Hot days
2025	33.3 °C5 September 2025	16.1 °C4 February 2025	23.4 °C	2,385 mm	84
2024	33.4 °C16 September 2024	14.9 °C16 January 2024	23.7 °C	1,938 mm	88
2023	34.0 °C20 August 2023	14.4 °C1 January 2023	23.3 °C	2,733 mm	87
2022	30.8 °C24 September 2022	13.7 °C22 January 2022	22.8 °C	2,373 mm	12
2021	31.5 °C15 September 2021	14.7 °C3 March 2021	22.9 °C	2,023 mm	28
2020	32.6 °C20 October 2020	14.5 °C15 January 2020	23.3 °C	1,616 mm	58
2019	33.8 °C7 July 2019	14.9 °C19 January 2019	23.3 °C	1,582 mm	90
2018	32.7 °C8 September 2018	13.5 °C8 January 2018	22.8 °C	2,276 mm	48
2017	34.0 °C26 July 2017	13.6 °C9 January 2017	23.6 °C	1,598 mm	116
2016	33.7 °C12 October 2016	14.6 °C25 December 2016	23.9 °C	1,195 mm	110
2015	32.5 °C7 August 2015	13.3 °C19 February 2015	23.1 °C	2,374 mm	65
2014	32.6 °C21 September 2014	13.4 °C11 February 2014	23.1 °C	2,405 mm	83
2013	32.9 °C8 October 2013	14.6 °C31 January 2013	23.1 °C	1,735 mm	48
2012	32.9 °C2 June 2012	14.4 °C2 January 2012	23.3 °C	1,706 mm	103
2011	32.9 °C25 September 2011	13.8 °C29 December 2011	23.3 °C	2,290 mm	103
2010	32.5 °C10 August 2010	15.0 °C24 February 2010	23.3 °C	2,126 mm	49
2009	33.2 °C8 October 2009	13.3 °C9 February 2009	23.6 °C	1,368 mm	108
2008	31.6 °C11 August 2008	12.1 °C25 February 2008	22.8 °C	1,958 mm	32
2007	32.3 °C8 August 2007	13.9 °C5 January 2007	23.0 °C	1,635 mm	59
2006	33.8 °C7 August 2006	12.7 °C24 January 2006	23.0 °C	1,783 mm	77
2005	33.5 °C1 October 2005	13.6 °C16 February 2005	23.7 °C	1,514 mm	126
2004	33.4 °C12 August 2004	12.7 °C21 February 2004	23.4 °C	1,464 mm	122
2003	33.6 °C29 August 2003	15.0 °C2 January 2003	23.3 °C	1,273 mm	106
2002	33.8 °C24 September 2002	13.3 °C18 January 2002	23.3 °C	1,587 mm	120
2001	33.6 °C10 September 2001	11.8 °C12 February 2001	23.4 °C	1,322 mm	125
2000	32.8 °C19 July 2000	14.1 °C13 February 2000	22.8 °C	1,540 mm	66
1999	32.8 °C9 September 1999	13.9 °C30 January 1999	23.0 °C	1,540 mm	94
1998	34.1 °C20 April 1998	15.5 °C1 March 1998	23.9 °C	1,240 mm	130
1997	33.0 °C25 August 1997	13.8 °C28 January 1997	23.1 °C	1,772 mm	84
1996	32.7 °C8 August 1996	14.3 °C10 March 1996	22.8 °C	1,691 mm	59
1995	32.4 °C3 July 1995	12.6 °C13 February 1995	23.2 °C	1,340 mm	97
1994	33.4 °C13 May 1994	13.7 °C9 March 1994	23.0 °C	1,768 mm	109
1993	33.9 °C20 June 1993	12.3 °C9 February 1993	23.2 °C	1,486 mm	112
1992	33.5 °C8 April 1992	13.2 °C14 February 1992	23.0 °C	1,343 mm	116
1991	33.8 °C26 September 1991	13.0 °C12 February 1991	23.3 °C	1,247 mm	134
1990	33.5 °C8 September 1990	12.3 °C22 January 1990	23.2 °C	1,490 mm	104
1989	32.3 °C28 August 1989	12.0 °C12 February 1989	22.9 °C	1,455 mm	82
1988	33.1 °C2 August 1988	14.2 °C30 November 1988	23.1 °C	1,454 mm	77
1987	34.9 °C5 September 1987	14.6 °C11 February 1987	23.2 °C	1,988 mm	89
1986	34.4 °C22 August 1986	15.0 °C8 November 1986	23.3 °C	1,519 mm	123
1985	34.1 °C2 May 1985	15.5 °C10 January 1985	23.2 °C	1,265 mm	106
1984	33.4 °C13 August 1984	13.6 °C2 December 1984	22.8 °C	1,786 mm	73
1983	34.5 °C23 April 1983	13.5 °C4 January 1983	23.7 °C	1,362 mm	140
1982	34.8 °C3 April 1982	13.5 °C20 January 1982	23.3 °C	1,309 mm	131
1981	34.0 °C6 October 1981	13.6 °C11 January 1981	23.1 °C	1,497 mm	108
1980	33.7 °C18 September 1980	13.3 °C28 February 1980	23.3 °C	1,232 mm	116
1979	34.3 °C22 May 1979	14.6 °C16 February 1979	23.4 °C	1,763 mm	131
1978	33.4 °C17 September 1978	14.9 °C18 January 1978	22.9 °C	1,805 mm	88
1977	34.1 °C14 April 1977	12.6 °C18 January 1977	22.9 °C	1,918 mm	94
1976	35.4 °C24 September 1976	12.4 °C3 March 1976	23.2 °C	1,371 mm	166
1975	34.6 °C22 May 1975	12.2 °C10 January 1975	22.7 °C	1,407 mm	87
1974	33.8 °C22 October 1974	11.9 °C16 January 1974	22.7 °C	1,367 mm	113
1973	35.1 °C30 April 1973	13.9 °C8 January 1973	23.1 °C	1,748 mm	125
1972	34.1 °C6 June 1972	13.1 °C9 February 1972	22.9 °C	1,424 mm	110
1971	32.7 °C8 September 1971	12.8 °C13 February 1971	22.4 °C	1,542 mm	75
1970	32.8 °C26 September 1970	14.4 °C28 January 1970	22.7 °C	1,728 mm	77
1969	34.4 °C6 August 1969	14.0 °C9 March 1969	22.8 °C	1,966 mm	81
1968	33.7 °C1 September 1968	12.3 °C15 February 1968	22.3 °C	1,576 mm	48
1967	32.7 °C11 September 1967	11.6 °C10 February 1967	22.2 °C	1,912 mm	35
1966	32.5 °C25 July 1966	15.2 °C2 January 1966	22.7 °C	1,784 mm	54
1965	32.6 °C28 July 1965	14.5 °C10 January 1965	22.0 °C	2,337 mm	19
1964	32.3 °C1 July 1964	12.9 °C9 March 1964	22.5 °C	1,529 mm	65
1963	33.2 °C15 June 1963	12.8 °C17 February 1963	22.4 °C	1,686 mm	84
1962	32.1 °C15 August 1962	13.6 °C2 March 1962	22.2 °C	1,663 mm	41
1961	30.8 °C14 July 1961	14.8 °C27 February 1961	22.1 °C	1,526 mm	17
1960	33.1 °C7 October 1960	14.3 °C8 February 1960	22.4 °C	1,733 mm	58
1959	33.1 °C11 September 1959	13.6 °C2 March 1959	22.8 °C	1,410 mm	70
1958	32.2 °C12 September 1958	14.4 °C22 November 1958	22.7 °C	1,500 mm	64
1957	33.7 °C26 September 1957	13.2 °C10 February 1957	22.6 °C	1,542 mm	74
1956	33.6 °C26 April 1956	12.8 °C22 January 1956	22.4 °C	1,287 mm	60
1955	30.3 °C3 August 1955	14.2 °C14 November 1955	21.8 °C	1,811 mm	9
1954	29.8 °C10 July 1954	13.9 °C17 February 1954	22.0 °C	1,847 mm	0
1953	34.3 °C29 March 1953	15.1 °C31 January 1953	23.1 °C	1,350 mm	96
1952	34.1 °C2 April 1952	15.0 °C15 January 1952	23.6 °C	697 mm	106
1951	31.7 °C17 May 1951	14.6 °C4 January 1951	22.9 °C	1,505 mm	47
1950	32.3 °C15 August 1950	14.5 °C26 January 1950	22.7 °C	1,128 mm	30
1949	32.7 °C24 April 1949	14.9 °C24 January 1949	21.9 °C	1,560 mm	6
1948	32.0 °C9 September 1948	14.0 °C26 February 1948	22.4 °C	1,859 mm	39
1947	31.1 °C20 July 1947	14.7 °C13 February 1947	22.2 °C	1,652 mm	15
1946	32.8 °C18 September 1946	13.4 °C7 March 1946	22.4 °C	1,728 mm	61
1945	31.6 °C9 May 1945	13.0 °C4 January 1945	22.3 °C	1,481 mm	32
1944	30.2 °C23 July 1944	12.7 °C6 February 1944	21.7 °C	2,361 mm	2
1943	32.2 °C23 August 1943	13.7 °C19 February 1943	21.7 °C	1,693 mm	29
1942	29.2 °C9 July 1942	13.9 °C25 January 1942	21.3 °C	2,047 mm	0
1941	32.7 °C29 April 1941	12.1 °C29 January 1941	22.2 °C	1,554 mm	46
1940	32.0 °C5 August 1940	13.4 °C9 February 1940	21.9 °C	1,823 mm	35

Normals computed over complete calendar years 1940–2025.

A specific year

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Year

Across the whole year

Average daily high

27.8 °C

+0.5 °C

Hot days (≥ 30 °C)

84 d/yr

Frost days (< 0 °C)

0 d/yr

Annual rainfall

2385 mm

+720 mm

Month by month

	High	vs. normal	Precipitation	vs. normal
Jan	23.7 °C	-0.1 °C	425 mm	+304 mm
Feb	26.6 °C	+1.4 °C	59 mm	-20 mm
Mar	27.1 °C	-0.1 °C	132 mm	+35 mm
Apr	28.0 °C	-0.2 °C	458 mm	+298 mm
May	28.7 °C	-0.3 °C	132 mm	-17 mm
Jun	29.7 °C	+0.2 °C	46 mm	-8 mm
Jul	29.9 °C	+0.2 °C	69 mm	+3 mm
Aug	30.3 °C	+0.6 °C	58 mm	-16 mm
Sep	30.5 °C	+1.1 °C	107 mm	-18 mm
Oct	28.0 °C	+0.8 °C	267 mm	-12 mm
Nov	26.2 °C	+1.0 °C	512 mm	+246 mm
Dec	24.8 °C	+0.8 °C	121 mm	-76 mm

The year's extremes

Hottest day

33.3 °C

5 Sep 2025

Coldest day

16.1 °C

4 Feb 2025

Wettest day

126.9 mm

27 Nov 2025

Windiest day

18.1 km/h

30 May 2025

Strongest gust

68.8 km/h

28 Nov 2025

Hottest feels-like

37.5 °C

14 May 2025

Coldest feels-like

17.1 °C

10 Feb 2025

Sunniest day

12.4 h

7 Jun 2025

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Frequently asked questions

What is the climate of Badulla?

Badulla has a tropical monsoon climate (Köppen Am). Over 1940-2025, the average annual temperature is 22.9 °C and it receives 1,665 mm of precipitation per year.

What is the hottest day ever recorded in Badulla?

The hottest day measured in Badulla between 1940 and 2025 was 24 September 1976, reaching 35.4 °C.

What is the coldest day in Badulla?

The coldest day measured in Badulla between 1940 and 2025 was 10 February 1967, at 11.6 °C.

Does it snow in Badulla?

Almost never: Badulla sees virtually no snow, with about 0 frost days per year.

Has the climate of Badulla warmed?

Yes: Badulla warmed by +1.3 °C between 1940 and 2025, a statistically significant trend.

What is the wettest day in Badulla?

The wettest day measured in Badulla between 1940 and 2025 was 6 November 2018, with 224 mm of rain in 24 hours.

What was the windiest day in Badulla?

The windiest day measured in Badulla between 1940 and 2025 was 24 June 1985, with winds reaching 22.9 km/h.

What is the warmest month in Badulla?

The warmest month in Badulla is June (24.8 °C on average); the coldest is January (20.2 °C).

How much does it rain in Badulla?

Badulla receives on average 1,665 mm of precipitation per year, spread over about 194 rainy days.

Is it sunny in Badulla?

Badulla gets on average 10.2 hours of sunshine per day, roughly 3,723 hours per year over 1940-2025.

Are there tropical nights in Badulla?

Yes: Badulla has on average 147 tropical nights per year (temperature staying above 20 °C), over 1940-2025.

What was the most extreme apparent temperature in Badulla?

In Badulla, between 1940 and 2025, the highest apparent temperature reached 38.5 °C on 31 May 1998, and the lowest was 10.0 °C on 12 February 2001.

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