Weekly note
Nuwara Eliya
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Photo by Keshani Kaveesha, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

The numbers

Daily high19°C
Nightly low14°C
Feels like, afternoon19°C
Rainy days, 1 mm or more14 · 188 mm
Humidity93%
Sunshine9.3 h/day
Daylight12.5 h/day
Hiking9 of 30 days dry and 10–27 °C
Crowds100 / 100, higher is quieter

Ten-year averages for this calendar month. 14 rainy days, as the weather station at Nuwara Eliya (1 km away) counts them: its June average over 9 years, 2017–2026 (WMO 43473). A rainy day is one with at least 1 mm of rain.

Weather read at Nuwara Eliya town: ten years of ERA5 and ERA5-Land reanalysis, through Open-Meteo's open data.

How busy it gets

June: quiet. Busiest in September and December; quietest in May and June.

Nuwara Eliya in pictures

What to pack

  • Rain gear you will actually use: about 14 rainy days and 188 mm.
  • Sun protection: about 9 hours of sunshine a day.
  • Humidity averages 93%; breathable fabrics dry faster.

Each line is a threshold over the ten-year figures above, not advice from anywhere else.

Before you go

Type D and G plugs at 230 V. Drives on the left. The currency is the Sri lankan rupee. No UK Foreign Office advice against travel. Everything for Sri Lanka: cost of living, languages, emergency numbers and health.

On arrival in Nuwara Eliya: the apps, paying, getting around, tipping and the emergency numbers.

June elsewhere

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