Jaffna
City in Sri Lanka: population, location, elevation, climate and landmarks.
Jaffna montage: Anton 17, CC BY-SA 3.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
Overview
Jaffna is a city in Sri Lanka, in Northern Province. About 169,102 people live in the city proper, making it the 4th largest city of Sri Lanka in our atlas.
It lies at 9.67° N, 80.01° E, about 7 m (23 ft) above sea level, and keeps time on the Asia/Colombo time zone. It sits inside the tropics.
Location
Red dot: Jaffna. Green dots: other major cities of Sri Lanka. Map data: Natural Earth.
Climate
Jaffna has a tropical savanna (dry summer) climate (Köppen As). The warmest month is usually Apr, with average highs near 32°C (89°F); the coolest nights come in Jan at about 25°C (76°F). Around 1,143 mm (45 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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- Kandy · 273 km
- Negombo · 274 km
- Colombo · 304 km
- Pita Kotte · 309 km
- Sri Jayewardenepura Kotte · 309 km
- Maharagama · 313 km
- Dehiwala-Mount Lavinia · 314 km
- Moratuwa · 322 km
- Population, coordinates, elevation, time zone: GeoNames 1242833 (CC BY 4.0)
- Wikidata Q27441809 (CC0)
- Climate: NASA POWER 2001-2025 climatology
Text written by Geographical Effect from these sources.
- Jaffna montage: Anton 17, CC BY-SA 3.0 (Wikimedia Commons)