Weekly note

The numbers

Daily high29°C
Nightly low22°C
Feels like, afternoon33°C
Rainy days, 1 mm or more19 · 372 mm
Humidity88%
Sunshine7.4 h/day
Daylight11.8 h/day
Crowds48 / 100, higher is quieter

Ten-year averages for this calendar month. A rainy day is one with at least 1 mm of rain, as a weather station counts it. The model these figures come from drizzles more than a rain gauge, the more so the warmer the month, so its days count from 2 mm, rising to 5 mm in the hottest.

Weather read at Sigiriya village (or Dambulla): ten years of ERA5 and ERA5-Land reanalysis, through Open-Meteo's open data.

How busy it gets

November: busier than usual. Busiest in February and March; quietest from April to June.

Public holidays in November

Holidays crowd a place out and push fares up around them; they count toward the crowd score above.

Sigiriya in pictures

What to pack

  • Summer clothes by day, highs around 29°C.
  • Rain gear you will actually use: about 19 rainy days and 372 mm.
  • Humidity averages 88%; 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 Sigiriya: the apps, paying, getting around, tipping and the emergency numbers.

November elsewhere

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