Sri Jayewardenepura Kotte
City in Sri Lanka: population, location, elevation, climate and landmarks.
Fountain at Diyatha Uyana: Hansa Nanayakkara, CC BY-SA 3.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
Overview
Sri Jayewardenepura Kotte is a city in Sri Lanka, in Western Province. About 115,826 people live in the city proper, making it the 8th largest city of Sri Lanka in our atlas.
It lies at 6.88° N, 79.91° E, about 27 m (89 ft) above sea level, and keeps time on the Asia/Colombo time zone. It sits inside the tropics.
Location
Red dot: Sri Jayewardenepura Kotte. Green dots: other major cities of Sri Lanka. Map data: Natural Earth.
Climate
Sri Jayewardenepura Kotte 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.
What to eat in Sri LankaNational dishes, street food, desserts and drinks on Intercontinental Chef.Nearby major cities
- Pita Kotte · 1 km
- Maharagama · 4 km
- Dehiwala-Mount Lavinia · 6 km
- Colombo · 9 km
- Moratuwa · 13 km
- Negombo · 37 km
- Kandy · 92 km
- Jaffna · 309 km
- Population, coordinates, elevation, time zone: GeoNames 1238992 (CC BY 4.0)
- Wikidata Q41963 (CC0)
- Climate: NASA POWER 2001-2025 climatology
Text written by Geographical Effect from these sources.
- Fountain at Diyatha Uyana: Hansa Nanayakkara, CC BY-SA 3.0 (Wikimedia Commons)