Climate and average weather in Welisara

In Welisara, the weather is muggy, sweltering, wet, and partly cloudy and remarkably steady, with daytime highs holding near sweltering levels all year. The wettest stretch peaks around October.

Best: late November to late February

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Welisara typically varies from 23°C to 33°C, and is rarely below 21°C or above 35°C. March is the hottest month of the year, while August is the coldest.

Based on the travel score, the best time of year to visit Welisara for warm-weather activities is from late November to late February.

Hottest
Mar
33°
Coldest
Aug
25°
Wettest
Oct
359 mm
Driest
Feb
65 mm
Rain / yr
2544 mm
270 wet days
Daylight
11.6–12.4 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
11 m
7.0°N
Clearest
Feb
54% cloud

Welisara weather by month, at a glance

The whole year in one picture — sky, rain, humidity, temperature and travel score. Click any band to jump to its full chart.

Each stripe is one measure across the whole year, stacked so a single day reads top to bottom. The sky band runs overcast grey on top down to clear blue at the base — more blue means sunnier — followed by the rainfall curve, the humidity band, a temperature strip that tints each stretch of the year by how warm its average high is, and the travel-score line at the foot. Scan straight down any date to read that day across every measure at once; the score climbs highest around late November to late February.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

Daily average highs and lows in Welisara, from 1991–2020 of climate data. The shaded bands show the range most days fall in — 10th to 90th percentile.

Temperatures in Welisara stay fairly even through the year, without a distinct hot or cool season. The warmest month is March, with an average high of 33°C and low of 25°C; the coolest is August, with an average low of 25°C and high of 29°C.

Days typically run about 6°C warmer than nights, with the widest day–night swing (around 9°C) in February.

20°25°30°35°40°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan3123
Feb3324
Mar3325
Apr3225
May3126
Jun3025
Jul2925
Aug2925
Sep2925
Oct3024
Nov3024
Dec3023

How hot and cold Welisara really feels

Feels-like highFeels-like lowactual air temp

The felt-temperature range through the year — heat index on the day's high (summer humidity), wind chill on the night's low (winter wind). The dashed lines are the plain thermometer; the gap is how much hotter or colder it really feels.

On the hottest afternoons, once humidity is folded in, Welisara feels like about 40°C (around April 26). Nearly every day a year carries some heat stress, and 36 of them tip into dangerous heat (feels-like above 39°C), peaking in April.

20°25°30°35°40°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdangerous heat
Feels-like high (°C)Air high (°C)Feels-like low (°C)Air low (°C)
Jan34312323
Feb36332424
Mar38332525
Apr39322525
May38312626
Jun36302525
Jul35292525
Aug35292525
Sep35292525
Oct35302424
Nov35302424
Dec34302323

Average hourly temperature in Welisara

A compact picture of the whole year, hour by hour: each column is a day, each row an hour, and the color is the modeled average temperature. Darker overlays mark night, lighter ones the civil-twilight hours around sunrise and sunset.

Read left to right for the day of the year and top to bottom for the hour of the day; the color is the modeled temperature, cool blues through to hot reds on the same scale as the other charts. A vertical slice is a single day's swing — coolest just before dawn, warmest in the mid-afternoon — while a horizontal slice follows one hour across the seasons. The darker overlay marks night and the lighter one the twilight around sunrise and sunset. Colors run warmest on March afternoons, near 33°C, and coldest before dawn in August, near 25°C.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec12 AM2 AM4 AM6 AM8 AM10 AM12 PM2 PM4 PM6 PM8 PM10 PM12 AM

Welisara weather by month

Every month at a glance. Click a month for its detailed page.

MonthHigh / Low (°C)Rainfall (mm)Wet daysDaylight (hours)Travel score
Jan31° / 23°668.411.64.4
Feb33° / 24°658.611.83.8
Mar33° / 25°9414.8123.1
Apr32° / 25°19225.412.22.5
May31° / 26°26429.412.32.5
Jun30° / 25°27928.712.42.7
Jul29° / 25°24529.212.42.9
Aug29° / 25°21929.112.22.9
Sep29° / 25°24727.8122.9
Oct30° / 24°35928.211.82.9
Nov30° / 24°33723.911.73.2
Dec30° / 23°17816.111.64.1

Chance of rain

How likely it is to rain on a typical day, and how that shifts across the wetter and drier seasons.

Welisara gets about 2544 mm of precipitation a year. On a typical day the chance of rain is very wet, but that rises and falls sharply with the seasons.

The wetter season lasts 7.7 months, from around Apr 5 to Nov 23, peaking in June at about 97% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Jan 22.

October is the wettest month by volume, with 359 mm over about 28 wet days; February is the driest, with 65 mm.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%110%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdrierwetterdriermostly drysome rainoften wetvery wetJun 1 · 97%Jan 22 · 25%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan288
Feb309
Mar4915
Apr8325
May9529
Jun9629
Jul9429
Aug9329
Sep9328
Oct9128
Nov7924
Dec5216

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Welisara collects about 2544 mm of rain across 270 wet days — roughly 212 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. October is the wettest month with 359 mm, while February is the driest at just 65 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 38% of the year’s total.

050100150200250300350400JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec666594192264279245219247359337178
Rainfall (mm)Rain days
Jan668
Feb659
Mar9415
Apr19225
May26429
Jun27929
Jul24529
Aug21929
Sep24728
Oct35928
Nov33724
Dec17816

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

How often the daytime sky is clear, partly cloudy or overcast.

In Welisara, the average share of the sky covered by clouds shows significant seasonal variation over the course of the year.

The clearer part of the year begins around December 5 and lasts for 4.7 months, ending around April 25. The clearest month is March, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 57% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around April 26 and lasts for 7.3 months, ending around December 4. The cloudiest month is July, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 90% of the time.

0%100%10%90%20%80%30%70%40%60%50%50%60%40%70%30%80%20%90%10%100%0%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecMar 10 · 59%Jun 6 · 8%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastclearercloudierclearer
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan4951
Feb5644
Mar5743
Apr3664
May1486
Jun1090
Jul1090
Aug1189
Sep1387
Oct1288
Nov1783
Dec3466

Daylight, sunrise and sunset

DaylightNight

Hours of daylight through the year, with sunrise and sunset times.

The gold band is daylight — sunrise runs along its lower edge, sunset along the upper — so it widens toward summer and pinches toward winter, with night the dark area above and below. The longest day, around May 24, brings about 12 h 24 min of light; the shortest, around January 1, only 11 h 36 min — a swing of roughly 0 h 48 min.

12 AM4 AM8 AM12 PM4 PM8 PM12 AMJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Daylight (h)Sunrise (AM)Sunset (PM)
Jan11.66:316:09
Feb11.86:326:18
Mar12.06:216:19
Apr12.26:066:15
May12.35:576:16
Jun12.45:586:23
Jul12.46:056:27
Aug12.26:086:21
Sep12.06:046:06
Oct11.86:005:51
Nov11.76:055:46
Dec11.66:195:54

Sunny days

How many genuinely sunny days each month brings — days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — banded into plain-language zones.

Welisara averages about 4 sunny days a month — counting the days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — with a clear seasonal swing between 0 and 10 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 4.5 months, from around Dec 1 to Apr 15. The sunniest month is February, with roughly 10 sunny days (mixed).

The greyest month is June, down near 0 sunny days — about 96% fewer than the February peak.

051015JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecsunniergreyersunniergloomymixedFeb 2010 daysJun 20 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan9Mixed
Feb9Mixed
Mar9Mixed
Apr4Gloomy
May1Gloomy
Jun0Gloomy
Jul1Gloomy
Aug1Gloomy
Sep1Gloomy
Oct1Gloomy
Nov2Gloomy
Dec6Gloomy

Humidity comfort

DryComfortableHumidMuggyOppressiveMiserable

Share of days at each humidity comfort level, based on the dew point — the measure that tracks how muggy it actually feels.

Humidity comfort is graded by the dew point — the temperature at which the air would be fully saturated — because it tracks how muggy it actually feels far better than relative humidity does. A low dew point feels dry and crisp; a high one feels sticky and oppressive no matter the reading on a humidity gauge.

Welisara is humid all year round — on a typical day the air feels at least humid, and there is no real dry season to wait for.

The stickiest month is January, when it feels muggy, oppressive or miserable about 91% of the time. Even in February, the mildest month, the air is dry or comfortable only 1% of the time.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecmiserableoppressivemuggyhumid
Comfortable (%)Humid (%)Muggy (%)Oppressive (%)Miserable (%)
Jan0934543
Feb1928584
Mar0197021
Apr0002872
May000496
Jun000892
Jul0002476
Aug0002971
Sep0003664
Oct0004456
Nov0036136
Dec02166715

Wind

Average wind speed through the year, banded into plain-language speed zones so a number reads as 'breezy' or 'calm' without knowing the scale.

This is the average sustained wind speed at the standard 10 metres above open ground — the steady flow a weather station reports, not the sharper gusts that come and go, which can run half again as fast. It's the number that says whether a place is generally breezy or calm.

Across the year, average wind speed in Welisara is typically calm, near 9 km/h, and varies moderately with the seasons.

The windier part of the year lasts 5.0 months, from around May 6 to Oct 4. The windiest month is June, averaging about 11 km/h (calm).

The calmer part of the year runs from around Jan 28 to May 5, with March the calmest month at about 6 km/h.

051015JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDeccalmerwindiercalmercalmlight breezeJun 3 · 11 km/hMar 8 · 6 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan9calm
Feb7calm
Mar6calm
Apr7calm
May10calm
Jun11calm
Jul11calm
Aug11calm
Sep10calm
Oct8calm
Nov6calm
Dec9calm

Hazard calendar for Welisara

In seasonPeak

When the seasonal hazards worth planning around — the rainy season, tropical-cyclone risk and dust haze — are active through the year.

Welisara sits in the North Indian Ocean cyclone zone; the season peaks May and October–November.

Cyclone
Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
Jun
Jul
Aug
Sep
Oct
Nov
Dec

Best time to visit Welisara

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

To characterize how pleasant the weather is in Welisara throughout the year, we compute two travel scores — one for general sightseeing, one for beach and pool weather.

Around mid February, Welisara is still near the tail of its best-weather window — great conditions with the peak-season crowds already thinning.

Inferred from the travel-score curve; month-by-month visitor numbers are a planned addition.

The travel score favors clear, rainless days with daytime highs between 18°C and 28°C. Based on this score, the best time of year to visit Welisara for general outdoor tourist activities is from late November to late February, with a peak score in the first week of January.

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationJan 4 · 4.5

The travel score (filled area), and its constituents: the temperature score (red line), the cloud cover score (blue line), and the precipitation score (green line).

Travel score (0–10)Rating
Jan4.4fair
Feb3.8fair
Mar3.1poor
Apr2.5poor
May2.5poor
Jun2.7poor
Jul2.9poor
Aug2.9poor
Sep2.9poor
Oct2.9poor
Nov3.2poor
Dec4.1fair

The beach/pool score favors clear, rainless days with daytime highs between 24°C and 34°C. Based on this score, the best time of year to visit Welisara for hot-weather activities is from mid December to late March, with a peak score in the third week of January.

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationJan 20 · 6.8

The beach/pool score (filled area), and its constituents: the temperature score (red line), the cloud cover score (blue line), and the precipitation score (green line).

What to pack for Welisara, by month

EssentialRecommendedOptional

Month by month, what's worth putting in the bag — from the temperature range, rain chance, sun and wind. Tap a month for a quick packing note.

Welisara packs about the same all year — highs hold near 33°C. Across the year the things worth having are light clothes, rain gear and sun protection.

Light clothing
Warm layer
Winter coat
Rain gear
Sun protection
Windbreaker

In March, Welisara sees daytime highs around 33°C and nights near 25°C. Pack light clothes, rain gear and sun protection. About 15 days see rain.

Sea temperature near Welisara

Average ocean temperature at the nearest coast, month by month, banded into swim-comfort zones — the other half of the beach question.

The sea offshore is warmest in April at about 30°C and coldest in August near 27°C.

The water stays above 20°C all year — warm enough for a swim any month.

26°28°30°32°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecwarmtropicalcomfortable to swim
Sea temperature (°C)Comfort
Jan28Warm
Feb28Tropical
Mar29Tropical
Apr30Tropical
May29Tropical
Jun28Tropical
Jul28Warm
Aug27Warm
Sep28Warm
Oct28Tropical
Nov29Tropical
Dec28Tropical

UV index (midday) in Welisara by month

LowModerateHighVery highExtreme

Clear-sky midday UV index through the year, shaded by the WHO exposure levels — how much sun protection each month calls for.

Under clear skies, the midday UV index in Welisara peaks around February 17 at about 13 (extreme) — sunscreen, a hat and midday shade are essential. It bottoms out near December 15 at about 10 (very high).

The index reaches 3 or more — the level where the WHO recommends sun protection — every month of the year.

025710JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecExtremeVery highFeb 17UV 13Dec 15UV 10
UV index (midday)Level
Jan11Extreme
Feb13Extreme
Mar12Extreme
Apr12Extreme
May12Extreme
Jun11Extreme
Jul12Extreme
Aug13Extreme
Sep13Extreme
Oct12Extreme
Nov10Extreme
Dec10Very high

Average hourly UV index in Welisara

LowModerateHighVery highExtreme

Modeled clear-sky UV for every hour of every day — when in the day sun protection actually matters.

The whole year hour by hour: each column is a day, each row an hour, and the color is the modeled clear-sky UV index — the midday peak scaled down as the sun sits lower in the sky. Darker overlays mark night, lighter ones the civil-twilight hours around sunrise and sunset.

UV falls off far faster than brightness as the sun drops, so even in February the burn window is concentrated in the middle of the day: about 8 hours a day reach index 3 (protection recommended), and 6 hours reach 6 or more. Mornings and late afternoons stay comparatively gentle year round.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec12 AM2 AM4 AM6 AM8 AM10 AM12 PM2 PM4 PM6 PM8 PM10 PM12 AM
UV ≥ 3 (h/day)UV ≥ 6 (h/day)
Jan7.55
Feb86
Mar7.55.5
Apr86
May86
Jun85.5
Jul86
Aug86
Sep86
Oct7.56
Nov7.55
Dec75

Air quality in Welisara by month

GoodModeratePoorUnhealthyVery unhealthy

Average fine-particle pollution (PM2.5) through the year — so you can see which months the air is worst, not just the yearly average.

Air quality in Welisara is worst in January — around 84 µg/m³ PM2.5 (unhealthy), about 2.8× the cleanest month (July, 29 µg/m³).

Modeled monthly averages (CAMS reanalysis, 2015–2024).

0306090JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecUnhealthyPoorModeratePoorUnhealthyJan 1483 µg/m³Jul 2129 µg/m³
PM2.5 (µg/m³)Level
Jan84Unhealthy
Feb78Unhealthy
Mar73Unhealthy
Apr62Unhealthy
May44Poor
Jun31Moderate
Jul29Moderate
Aug30Moderate
Sep35Poor
Oct52Poor
Nov74Unhealthy
Dec81Unhealthy
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

Chance of a frost-free dayFrost-free year round

Welisara is frost-free year round — even the coldest nights rarely reach freezing, so there is no start or end to the growing season.

0%25%50%75%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecfrost-free year round
Frost-free chance (%)Frost nights
Jan1000
Feb1000
Mar1000
Apr1000
May1000
Jun1000
Jul1000
Aug1000
Sep1000
Oct1000
Nov1000
Dec1000

Growing degree days

Degree days (base 10°C)Frost-free shaded

Growing degree days tally heat above 10°C: each day adds however many degrees its average temperature runs over that threshold, and cold days add nothing. Welisara banks about 6,370 degree days a year, and the running total — which growers use to time plantings and predict maturity — climbs fastest around March.

02,0004,0006,000JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Growing degree days (°C·days)
Jan532
Feb507
Mar583
Apr555
May559
Jun523
Jul530
Aug528
Sep510
Oct522
Nov503
Dec517

Solar energy

Average daily shortwave solar energy reaching the ground, banded into brightness zones so the number means something at a glance.

Solar energy is how much sunlight actually reaches the ground each day, measured in kilowatt-hours per square metre (kWh/m²) — the combined effect of how long the sun is up, how high it climbs, and how much cloud gets in the way. It's the raw fuel a solar panel has to work with: for scale, 1 kWh/m² a day is dim and wintry, while 7+ is desert-bright.

Welisara receives about 5.0 kWh/m² a day of solar energy on average — bright — with a clear seasonal swing between 4.4 and 6.1 kWh/m².

The brighter stretch of the year lasts 4.0 months, from around Jan 4 to May 4. The brightest month is March, averaging about 6.1 kWh/m² (intense).

The dimmest month is June, down near 4.5 kWh/m² — roughly 26% less than the March peak.

01234567JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbrighterdimmerdimmoderatebrightintenseMar 176.1 kWhJun 34.4 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan5.3Bright
Feb5.9Bright
Mar6.2Intense
Apr5.6Bright
May4.7Bright
Jun4.5Bright
Jul4.6Bright
Aug4.8Bright
Sep4.8Bright
Oct4.6Bright
Nov4.4Bright
Dec4.6Bright

Where is Welisara?

Welisara sits at 7.0°N, 79.9°E, 11 m above sea level, in Sri Lanka. The nearest listed city is Kandana, 2.0 km away.

Topography around Welisara

How much the land rises and falls, and what covers it, within 3, 16 and 80 km of Welisara.

Within 3 km, the terrain around Welisara has only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 45 m around an average of 10 m above sea level; within 16 km, only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 124 m; within 80 km, very significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 2,145 m.

The land around Welisara is covered by trees (45%) and artificial surfaces (37%) within 3 km, trees (44%) and water (31%) within 16 km, and trees (61%) and water (34%) within 80 km.

3 km
45 m
16 km
124 m
80 km
2,145 m
treesgrasslandcroplandartificial surfacesbare terrainwaterwetland
Nearby: Kandana 2.0 km · Wattala 4.0 km · Hendala 5.0 km · Ja Ela 5.0 km · Peliyagoda 7.0 km · Kelaniya 8.0 km · Kolonnawa 11 km · Mulleriyawa 11 km

Sri Lanka travel facts

Travel advisory
Level 2
Exercise Increased Caution
Power plugs
Type D / G / M
230 V · 50 Hz
Prices
≈ 27% of US
price level, 2025
GDP per capita
$5,002
2025
Happiness
4.0 / 10
World Happiness, 2025
Safe drinking water
47%
of population, 2024
Homicide rate
3.3
per 100k, 2019
Road deaths
19.7
per 100k/yr, 2019
Income group
Upper middle
World Bank
English
Low
EF EPI 486
Religion
Buddhist 70%Hindu 13%Muslim 10%Roman Catholic 6%

Sources: World Bank, US State Department, World Happiness Report, WHO/UNICEF, EF EPI, CIA World Factbook.

Data sources

Temperature, precipitation, cloud, humidity, wind and solar figures are a 1991–2020 climatology for Welisara (7.0281°, 79.9014°, elevation 11 m), computed from hourly ERA5 reanalysis — contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information. Sun figures are astronomical calculations, not observations. City data © GeoNames, CC BY 4.0. Map outlines from Natural Earth (public domain); interactive map © Google. Tropical-cyclone seasons are the published climatological basin seasons (NOAA National Hurricane Center / regional warning centres). Sea temperatures are the NOAA OISST v2.1 1991–2020 monthly climatology (public domain), sampled at the nearest ocean point. UV index is derived from CAMS (Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service) clear-sky UV data — contains modified Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service information. Monthly air-quality (PM2.5) seasonality is from the CAMS EAC4 reanalysis (Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service), scaled to the WHO annual mean where available. Topography is sampled from the Copernicus DEM GLO-90 elevation model (© ESA/Airbus) and ESA WorldCover 2021 land cover (CC BY 4.0).