Colombotemperature
It is 79.0°F at Colombo, 05:30 local on Friday. Colombo is the 50th hottest of 230 capitals by annual mean.
4 readings held for the last 24 hours, every one of them checked before it appeared.
Source: WMO SYNOP bulletins
Normal for 31 October here is a high of 87.1°F.
Source: WMO SYNOP bulletins · normals from NOAA GHCN-Daily
28 April 1958. The highest daily maximum in the record for this station.
Source: GHCN-Daily, 1956 to 2026
26 September 1958. The lowest daily minimum in the record for this station.
Source: GHCN-Daily, 1956 to 2026
Where Colombo stands
Colombo by month
Normal high · record high with its day · record low with its day- Jan87.8°FHigh 95.2°F · 27 Jan 2016Low 65.8°F · 13 Jan 2011
- Feb88.7°FHigh 96.8°F · 9 Feb 1980Low 66.2°F · 1 Feb 1981
- Mar89.1°FHigh 97.0°F · 17 Mar 2011Low 70.7°F · 29 Mar 2021
- Apr · warmest89.8°FHigh 97.0°F · 28 Apr 1958Low 69.8°F · 5 Apr 1980
- May88.5°FHigh 92.5°F · 4 May 2016Low 71.2°F · 13 May 2013
- Jun87.4°FHigh 90.7°F · 23 Jun 2024Low 71.6°F · 10 Jun 1978
- Jul
Nearby, hottest and coldest
Within 100 km · 6 stations reporting17 Aprils at Colombo
Full trend →Capitals with a similar climate
The capitals immediately warmer and cooler than Colombo by annual mean.
- Funafuti 87.8°F
- Kralendijk 87.8°F
- Ngerulmud 87.8°F
- Palikir 87.6°F
- San Salvador 87.6°F
- Moroni 87.4°F
How Colombo’s temperature has been recorded
How hot does it get in Colombo?
April is the warmest month at Colombo, averaging a daily high of 89.8°F. That is an average of every April day in the archive, not a record: the highest single reading is below.
How cold does it get in Colombo?
September is the coolest month, averaging a daily high of 86.5°F. The gap between the warmest and coolest month is 35.2°F, which is what the ranking of capitals by annual swing is built on.
What is the highest temperature ever recorded in Colombo?
97.0°F, on 28 April 1958, in the record held for Colombo. That is the highest daily maximum in the archive for this station, not a national record and not an official figure: those are set by national meteorological services.
What is the lowest temperature ever recorded in Colombo?
64.0°F, on 26 September 1958, in the same archive. Like the high, it is the lowest daily minimum this station has recorded rather than an official national figure.
What is the weather in Colombo right now?
Sources and checks for this page
Live readings come from WMO SYNOP bulletins at Colombo. Monthly means and every record on this page are computed from NOAA GHCN-Daily observations stored per station, per year, per month, and the capital list is GeoNames, CC BY 4.0. Nothing here is modelled, interpolated or estimated, and a month the archive never covered is left out rather than filled in. See how this is built.