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Has the climate in Badulla changed?

Badulla has cooled about 1.6°F since 2010.

About 1.4°F per decade, measured from Badulla's official daily weather records, 2010–2025. Individual years still bounce around — some recent ones came in cool — but the long-term line has clearly risen.

Is that a lot? Badulla's climate has warmed more slowly than most other cities in Sri Lanka.

What has actually changed

Each card compares the 1970s (the first ten years of the record) with recent years (the last ten) — the same span the headline and the chart use.

Freezing nights
about the same
1970s
0 / yr
Recent
0 / yr
Winters about as cold as before
Average temperature
−1.7°F
1970s
82.6°F
Recent
80.9°F
A small downward drift
Hot days above 90°F
49 fewer days
1970s
193 / yr
Recent
144 / yr
Slightly fewer hot days
Rainy days
29 fewer days
1970s
154 / yr
Recent
125 / yr
Drier on average

Badulla's temperature, year by year

Average temperature for each year from 2010 to 2025.

79°81°83°85°2010: 82.6°F2011: 82.5°F2012: 83.0°F2013: 82.4°F2014: 82.7°F2015: 84.2°F2019: 83.5°F2020: 82.4°F2021: 80.9°F2022: 80.5°F2023: 81.2°F2025: 81.2°Flong-term trend201020202025
a warmer-than-average year a cooler-than-average year

Each bar is one year. Most recent years sit above the older ones. Some recent years still came in cool — warming is a slope, not a straight climb.

Methodology & sources

Temperature — modelled for this location from ERA5-Land reanalysis, a ~9 km global grid, because no long-record weather station is close enough to use.

How we build these numbers →