Annual Mean Temperature Of Sri Lanka
Annual Mean Temperature
Source: Department Of Meteorology
The annual mean air temperature of Sri Lanka are mainly influence due to altitude than latitude. Because, in the lowlands up to 150m of altitude, the mean annual temperature varies between 26°C to 28 °C. The oceanic influence helps to reduce temperature in lowlands by sea breeze. The mean temperature of highlands is 15.8 °C. Notable Feature of air temperature of Sri Lanka is indicated small variation of the mean monthly temperature through out the year.
Lowest mean temperature of the year can be experience along the coast during December to January as a range between 21°C to 24.2°C. At the Nuwara Eliya minimum mean temperature 9.4°C and minimum temperature fall below the freezing point(0 °C) rarely. Diurnal variations of the temperature occur due to season, altitude and according to the how much distance from the sea.
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