How extreme does Kandy's weather get?

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

Based on 16 years of daily weather observations (2009–present), from the Badulla station 57 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 Kandy has recorded — each shown against what a normal day that time of year looks like.

🔥 Hottest day

94°F Feb 7, 2016

The three most extreme on record

1 94°F Feb 7, 2016

2 94°F Mar 21, 2019

3 94°F Sep 9, 2019

❄️ Coldest night

50°F Feb 7, 2014

The three most extreme on record

1 50°F Feb 7, 2014

2 51°F Feb 10, 2014

3 51°F Feb 13, 2016

🌧️ Most rain in one day

7.67 in Dec 26, 2014

The three most extreme on record

1 7.67 in Dec 26, 2014

2 5.33 in Feb 2, 2011

3 4.67 in Dec 17, 2012

In plain terms

Across the record, Kandy has reached as high as 94°F and as low as 50°F. A single day has delivered over 8 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 10 years of daily observations at Kurunegala, a weather station, about 35 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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