Best time to visit Sri Lanka
Every guide's best months, checked against its own thirty-year rainfall: a filled month is recommended, a hatched one has over 250 mm of rain. Most of Sri Lanka agrees on Jan, Feb, Mar, Jul, Aug, Sep.
| Place | J | F | M | A | M | J | J | A | S | O | N | D | In words |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sri LankaDecember to March for the south and west, July to August for the east | December to March for the south and west, July to August for the east | ||||||||||||
| EllaJanuary to March, and July to September — the hills make their own weather and cloud closes the view without warning | January to March, and July to September — the hills make their own weather and cloud closes the view without warning | ||||||||||||
| GalleDecember to March — the southwest monsoon covers the middle of the year and the sea gets rough with it | December to March — the southwest monsoon covers the middle of the year and the sea gets rough with it | ||||||||||||
| Sigiriya & DambullaJanuary to April, and July to September — the dry zone is hot all year and the inter-monsoon rains fall in between | January to April, and July to September — the dry zone is hot all year and the inter-monsoon rains fall in between | ||||||||||||
| KandyJanuary to April, and July to September — the hill country has two monsoons and one of them always has it | January to April, and July to September — the hill country has two monsoons and one of them always has it |
best month · over 250 mm · the letters are the months, January to December.
The guides in Sri Lanka
Sri LankaSri LankaTea hills, ruined capitals and two coasts with opposite seasons
EllaSri LankaA gap in the hills with tea on every slope, reached on the best train journey in Asia
GalleSri LankaA Dutch fort on a headland, walled, walkable and lived in, with the south coast beaches beside it
Sigiriya & DambullaSri LankaA palace on top of a two-hundred-metre rock, and a cave temple full of Buddhas an hour away
KandySri LankaThe last kingdom of Sri Lanka, around a lake, with the Buddha’s tooth in a temple above it