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Weather extremes
How extreme does Colombo's weather get?
The hottest, coldest, wettest and snowiest days Colombo has recorded — the outer limits of what its weather can do, and how far they sit beyond a normal day.
The four kinds of extreme
The hottest, coldest, wettest and snowiest single days Colombo has recorded — each shown against what a normal day that time of year looks like.
That is about 15°F hotter than a normal August afternoon in Colombo (typical high near 86°F).
The three most extreme on record
About 19°F colder than a normal July night in Colombo (typical low near 80°F).
The three most extreme on record
More rain in a single day than Colombo usually gets in the whole month of July (typical July total about 3.8 in).
The three most extreme on record
How hot and cold it gets, month by month
The shaded band is the normal range of daily temperatures for each month. The dots show the most extreme it has ever been — so you can see how far beyond a normal day the records really sit.
Colombo's record heat sits well above even a hot day for the season — August's 101°F is about 15°F beyond a normal hot afternoon. Its record cold is just as far below a normal winter night — the dots mark how rare each extreme really is.
In plain terms
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 12 years of daily observations at Colombo, a weather station, about 4 km from the city centre. The underlying daily records come from NOAA's global station network.