Colombo
It is 85.8°F at Colombo, 17:30 local on Monday. Colombo is the 31st hottest of 139 capitals by annual mean, and the 49th hottest capital right now.
17:30 local · Monday 28 September 2026
Source: WMO SYNOP bulletins
Normal for this date here is a high of 86.5°F.
Monday, 28 April 1958
Source: GHCN-Daily
Friday, 26 September 1958
Source: GHCN-Daily
The record for 28 September here is 88.5°F, set in 2016. Today reached 87.8°F.
The whole record bookUlan Bator, at 32.0°F. The two ends of the capitals table right now.
See Ulan BatorWhere Colombo stands
- Among capitals, annual mean
- #31
- of 139
- Among capitals, right now
- #49
- of 213 reporting
- Hottest month
- April
- 89.8°F
- Widest annual swing
- #131
- of 139
Colombo by month
Normal high · record high · record low- 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
8 of 8 nearby stations reported today.
Capitals with a similar climate
The capitals immediately warmer and cooler than Colombo by annual mean.
How Colombo’s temperature has been recorded
When did temperature records begin in Colombo?
The archive held here for Colombo, Sri Lanka starts in 1956, which is 70 years of record, across 12,852 days with a stored reading.
Which station measures Colombo's temperature?
Colombo (WMO 43466), 7 m above sea level. Every figure on this page comes from that one station rather than from a city-wide average, so it is a measurement at a known place rather than an estimate for an area.
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.
How is the temperature measured and checked?
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.