Puttalam Weather in January
Average highs run from 29°C on January 1 to 30°C on January 31, and lows from 23°C to 22°C. Normal precipitation for the month is 50 mm over about 9 wet days.
January day by day
The normal high and low for each date, in °C.
- Normal low
- Normal high
- Reanalysis extreme high
- Reanalysis extreme low
January at a glance
- Average high
- 30°C
- Average low
- 22°C
- Precipitation
- 50 mm
- Reanalysis high
- 34°CJan 22, 1997
- Reanalysis low
- 18°CJan 21, 2006
- Daylight
- 11 h 40 min to 11 h 47 min
- Cloud cover
- 63%
- Humidity
- 79%
- Dew point
- 21°C
- Wind
- 19.4 km/h
Every day of the month
A wet day has at least 1 mm of precipitation in the reanalysis.
| Date | Normal high | Normal low | Reanalysis high | Reanalysis low | Chance wet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 1 | 29°C | 23°C | 32°C 1996 | 20°C 2003 | 35% |
| Jan 2 | 29°C | 23°C | 32°C 1996 | 19°C 2009 | 37% |
| Jan 3 | 29°C | 23°C | 33°C 1996 | 20°C 2007 | 37% |
| Jan 4 | 29°C | 23°C | 33°C 1996 | 20°C 2007 | 36% |
| Jan 5 | 29°C | 23°C | 33°C 1996 | 19°C 2007 | 34% |
| Jan 6 | 29°C | 23°C | 33°C 1996 | 20°C 2010 | 34% |
| Jan 7 | 29°C | 22°C | 33°C 1996 | 19°C 2018 | 33% |
| Jan 8 | 29°C | 22°C | 33°C 1996 | 19°C 2017 | 32% |
| Jan 9 | 29°C | 22°C | 33°C 1996 | 20°C 2017 | 32% |
| Jan 10 | 29°C | 22°C | 33°C 1996 | 19°C 2017 | 32% |
| Jan 11 | 29°C | 22°C | 33°C 1996 | 20°C 2017 | 31% |
| Jan 12 | 29°C | 22°C | 33°C 1997 | 20°C 2017 | 30% |
| Jan 13 | 29°C | 22°C | 34°C 1997 | 20°C 2002 | 30% |
| Jan 14 | 29°C | 22°C | 34°C 1996 | 20°C 2005 | 29% |
| Jan 15 | 29°C | 22°C | 34°C 1997 | 19°C 2002 | 27% |
| Jan 16 | 30°C | 22°C | 34°C 1997 | 20°C 2002 | 25% |
| Jan 17 | 30°C | 22°C | 34°C 1996 | 19°C 2002 | 23% |
| Jan 18 | 30°C | 22°C | 33°C 1997 | 20°C 2012 | 21% |
| Jan 19 | 30°C | 22°C | 33°C 1997 | 19°C 2008 | 20% |
| Jan 20 | 30°C | 22°C | 33°C 1996 | 19°C 2008 | 20% |
| Jan 21 | 30°C | 22°C | 34°C 1997 | 18°C 2006 | 20% |
| Jan 22 | 30°C | 22°C | 34°C 1997 | 19°C 2006 | 20% |
| Jan 23 | 30°C | 22°C | 34°C 1997 | 18°C 2006 | 19% |
| Jan 24 | 30°C | 22°C | 33°C 1997 | 18°C 2006 | 19% |
| Jan 25 | 30°C | 22°C | 34°C 1997 | 18°C 2006 | 19% |
| Jan 26 | 30°C | 22°C | 33°C 1997 | 21°C 2012 | 19% |
| Jan 27 | 30°C | 22°C | 33°C 2004 | 20°C 1993 | 19% |
| Jan 28 | 30°C | 22°C | 34°C 1996 | 19°C 1993 | 20% |
| Jan 29 | 30°C | 22°C | 34°C 2004 | 19°C 1999 | 20% |
| Jan 30 | 30°C | 22°C | 34°C 2004 | 19°C 2003 | 22% |
| Jan 31 | 30°C | 22°C | 34°C 2004 | 18°C 1999 | 23% |
Chance of rain
- Chance of a wet day
Sunrise and sunset
Times for 2026, local time (GMT+5:30).
- January 1
- sunrise 6:24 AM, sunset 6:04 PM
- January 31
- sunrise 6:31 AM, sunset 6:18 PM
Other months
Sources
Cloud, humidity, wind and sunshine, and temperature and precipitation: NASA POWER (MERRA-2, CERES and GEWEX SRB), 1991-2020. The data was obtained from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Langley Research Center's Prediction Of Worldwide Energy Resources (POWER) project funded through the NASA Earth Science Division: POWER Daily API v2, accessed 2026-09-25. Sun and moon: computed with the NOAA solar equations and Meeus.