Dehiwala-Mount Lavinia
City in Sri Lanka: population, location, elevation, climate and landmarks.
Dehiwala-Mount Lavania: Y2, CC BY-SA 4.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
Overview
Dehiwala-Mount Lavinia is a city in Sri Lanka, in Western Province. About 219,827 people live in the city proper, making it the 2nd largest city of Sri Lanka in our atlas.
It lies at 6.84° N, 79.87° E, about 16 m (52 ft) above sea level, and keeps time on the Asia/Colombo time zone. It sits inside the tropics.
Location
Red dot: Dehiwala-Mount Lavinia. Green dots: other major cities of Sri Lanka. Map data: Natural Earth.
Climate
Dehiwala-Mount Lavinia has a tropical rainforest climate (Köppen Af). The warmest month is usually Mar, with average highs near 31°C (87°F); the coolest nights come in Jan at about 22°C (72°F). Around 2,000 mm (79 in) of rain and snow falls in a typical year, most of it in Nov.
Bars: average daily high and low (°C) for each month; blue columns and figures: average precipitation (mm). Gridded 2001-2025 averages from NASA POWER, so mountain and coastal spots can differ from local station records.
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- Maharagama · 6 km
- Sri Jayewardenepura Kotte · 6 km
- Pita Kotte · 7 km
- Moratuwa · 8 km
- Colombo · 11 km
- Negombo · 41 km
- Kandy · 98 km
- Jaffna · 314 km
- Population, coordinates, elevation, time zone: GeoNames 1234569 (CC BY 4.0)
- Wikidata Q24462 (CC0)
- Climate: NASA POWER 2001-2025 climatology
Text written by Geographical Effect from these sources.
- Dehiwala-Mount Lavania: Y2, CC BY-SA 4.0 (Wikimedia Commons)