Badulla Weather in January

NASA POWER reanalysis for the half-degree grid cell around Badulla, 1991-2020; a grid cell is an area average and can differ from a thermometer in town by several degrees

Average highs run from 27°C on January 1 to 28°C on January 31, and lows from 20°C to 19°C. Normal precipitation for the month is 115 mm over about 12 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: 27°C
Average low: 19°C
Precipitation: 115 mm
Reanalysis high: 36°CJan 21, 1997
Reanalysis low: 13°CJan 24, 2006
Daylight: 11 h 44 min to 11 h 50 min
Cloud cover: 67%
Humidity: 87%
Dew point: 20°C
Wind: 12.6 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	27°C	20°C	30°C 1995	16°C 2009	51%
Jan 2	27°C	20°C	31°C 1995	16°C 2009	51%
Jan 3	27°C	20°C	31°C 1997	16°C 2009	51%
Jan 4	27°C	20°C	31°C 1997	16°C 2007	51%
Jan 5	27°C	20°C	31°C 1996	15°C 2007	51%
Jan 6	27°C	20°C	31°C 1996	15°C 2018	50%
Jan 7	27°C	20°C	31°C 1997	14°C 2018	50%
Jan 8	27°C	20°C	31°C 1996	15°C 2017	48%
Jan 9	27°C	20°C	32°C 1996	16°C 2017	48%
Jan 10	27°C	20°C	32°C 1996	16°C 2017	47%
Jan 11	27°C	20°C	31°C 1996	16°C 2017	46%
Jan 12	27°C	19°C	32°C 1995	15°C 2017	45%
Jan 13	27°C	19°C	33°C 1995	16°C 2015	43%
Jan 14	27°C	19°C	32°C 1997	16°C 2002	42%
Jan 15	27°C	19°C	32°C 1997	16°C 2002	40%
Jan 16	27°C	19°C	32°C 1997	14°C 2002	38%
Jan 17	27°C	19°C	32°C 1996	15°C 2002	37%
Jan 18	27°C	19°C	31°C 1996	16°C 2002	35%
Jan 19	27°C	19°C	31°C 1996	15°C 1993	34%
Jan 20	27°C	19°C	34°C 1997	15°C 1993	34%
Jan 21	27°C	19°C	36°C 1997	14°C 2006	34%
Jan 22	27°C	19°C	34°C 1997	14°C 2006	34%
Jan 23	27°C	19°C	33°C 1997	14°C 2006	34%
Jan 24	28°C	19°C	32°C 1997	13°C 2006	34%
Jan 25	28°C	19°C	32°C 1997	14°C 2006	35%
Jan 26	28°C	19°C	32°C 1996	16°C 1992	36%
Jan 27	28°C	19°C	32°C 1997	16°C 1994	37%
Jan 28	28°C	19°C	32°C 1997	16°C 1993	38%
Jan 29	28°C	19°C	34°C 1997	15°C 1993	40%
Jan 30	28°C	19°C	33°C 1997	15°C 1999	41%
Jan 31	28°C	19°C	33°C 1997	15°C 1999	41%

Chance of rain

Chance of a wet day

Sunrise and sunset

Times for 2026, local time (GMT+5:30).

January 1: sunrise 6:17 AM, sunset 6:01 PM
January 31: sunrise 6:24 AM, sunset 6:14 PM

Every day of January: sun and moon

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 2026-09-24. Sun and moon: computed with the NOAA solar equations and Meeus.