Weekly note

Sri Lanka in August

4 of the 5 destinations in Sri Lanka are in season in August: 1 a sweet spot, 0 good, 3 ok.

August is a sweet spot at 1 of these 5 places: Kandy. Best avoided at 1 of them.

Ranked for August

#PlaceVerdict High Rain Why
1 Kandy sweet spot 27° 11d 27C max, 11 rainy days
2 Sigiriya ok 32° 3d 32C max, 3 rainy days
3 Colombo ok 29° 12d 29C max, 12 rainy days
4 Nuwara Eliya ok 18° 15d 18C max, 15 rainy days

Not this August

Other months for Sri Lanka

August elsewhere

Every verdict here is the destination's own: ten years of climate readings, the public holidays that crowd it, and what the flight costs. Nothing is said about Sri Lanka as a whole that was not first measured at each place in it.