How extreme does Batticaloa's weather get?

The hottest, coldest, wettest and snowiest days Batticaloa has recorded — the outer limits of what its weather can do, and how far they sit beyond a normal day.

Based on 34 years of daily weather observations (1991–present), from the Batticaloa station 2 km away. Updated through August 2025 — an all-time extreme only changes when a more extreme day actually occurs, so some dates are old. That is normal, not stale data.

The four kinds of extreme

The hottest, coldest, wettest and snowiest single days Batticaloa has recorded — each shown against what a normal day that time of year looks like.

🔥 Hottest day

122°F Feb 11, 1999

The three most extreme on record

1 122°F Feb 11, 1999

2 103°F Apr 4, 1995

3 102°F Mar 28, 1992

❄️ Coldest night

56°F Jul 28, 1994

The three most extreme on record

1 56°F Jul 28, 1994

2 57°F Mar 24, 1994

3 62°F Apr 19, 1995

🌧️ Most rain in one day

12.87 in Jan 9, 2011

The three most extreme on record

1 12.87 in Jan 9, 2011

2 10.06 in Oct 25, 2015

3 9.85 in Jan 13, 2011

In plain terms

In a normal year, Batticaloa's warmest days reach the low 90s°F and its coldest nights drop to the high 70s°F. But across the record it has gone as high as 122°F and as low as 56°F. A single day has delivered over 13 inches of rain. Those are the outer edges worth knowing if you are moving here, planning a trip, or thinking about a house.

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.

Precipitation — 1991–2020 normals computed from 11 years of daily observations at China Bay, a weather station, about 108 km from the city centre. The underlying daily records come from NOAA's global station network.

How we build these numbers →

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