På gång i Colombo (Sri Lanka), Sri Lanka under året

Mest folk — redaktionens toppmånad, Year-end break i Sri Lanka

Inget nytt börjar i januari.

Pågår fortfarande: Blue whales off Mirissa (1 nov – 15 apr (vanligtvis))

Mest folk — redaktionens toppmånad, Independence Day

• Helg

  Independence Day

  4 febNationell helgdagStängningarTrångt

  A military parade and closed roads in the capital on 4 February, and a public holiday across the island. Government offices and many shops shut for the day. Källa ↗

Pågår fortfarande: Blue whales off Mirissa (1 nov – 15 apr (vanligtvis))

Mycket folk — mellan topparna, February break i Sri Lanka

Inget nytt börjar i mars.

Pågår fortfarande: Blue whales off Mirissa (1 nov – 15 apr (vanligtvis))

Mest folk — Sinhala and Tamil New Year, Sinhala & Tamil New Year break i Sri Lanka

• Helg

  Sinhala and Tamil New Year

  13–14 aprSkollovStängningar

  The island stops for several days in mid-April. Shops, kitchens and transport shut, buses and trains out of Colombo are full for a week beforehand, and hotels run on skeleton staff. Källa ↗

• Festival

  Vesak

  30–31 majReligiös högtidStängningar

  The Buddha's birth, enlightenment and death marked with paper lanterns outside every house and free food stalls, dansal, set up on the roadsides. Alcohol sales stop and meat comes off many menus for the poya. Källa ↗

Pågår fortfarande: Blue whales off Mirissa (1 nov – 15 apr (vanligtvis))

Lugnt — redaktionens lugna månad, skollov i 2 av marknaderna som fyller platsen

• Säsong

  East coast season

  1 maj – 30 sep · vanligtvisTorrsäsong

  While this coast is under the monsoon, the other side of the island is in its dry season: Trincomalee, Pasikudah and the surf at Arugam Bay are at their best exactly when Colombo is at its worst.

• Säsong

  Southwest (Yala) monsoon

  15 maj – 15 sep · vanligtvisRisk

  The southwest monsoon soaks Colombo and the west and south coasts, with rain in heavy bursts and a sea too rough for the beach towns south of the city. Low season here, high season on the far side of the island.

Pågår fortfarande: Vesak (30–31 maj)

Lugnt — redaktionens lugna månad, skollov i 3 av marknaderna som fyller platsen

Inget nytt börjar i juni.

Pågår fortfarande: Vesak (30–31 maj), East coast season (1 maj – 30 sep (vanligtvis)), Southwest (Yala) monsoon (15 maj – 15 sep (vanligtvis))

Mellansäsong — skollov i 5 av marknaderna som fyller platsen, en helt vanlig månad

• Festival

  Esala Perahera

  18–28 augReligiös högtidTrångtBoka tidigt

  Ten nights of tusker elephants, whip-crackers, fire dancers and drummers processing through Kandy, three hours inland. Rooms along the route are sold a year ahead and the town is impassable on the last nights. Källa ↗

Pågår fortfarande: East coast season (1 maj – 30 sep (vanligtvis)), Southwest (Yala) monsoon (15 maj – 15 sep (vanligtvis))

Lugnt — redaktionens lugna månad, Esala Perahera

Inget nytt börjar i augusti.

Pågår fortfarande: East coast season (1 maj – 30 sep (vanligtvis)), Southwest (Yala) monsoon (15 maj – 15 sep (vanligtvis)), Esala Perahera (18–28 aug)

Mycket folk — mellan topparna, August break i Sri Lanka

Inget nytt börjar i september.

Pågår fortfarande: East coast season (1 maj – 30 sep (vanligtvis)), Southwest (Yala) monsoon (15 maj – 15 sep (vanligtvis))

Lugnt — redaktionens lugna månad, skollov i 3 av marknaderna som fyller platsen

• Säsong

  Second inter-monsoon

  1 okt – 20 nov · vanligtvisRisk

  The wettest weeks of the year on this coast, delivered as heavy afternoon and evening thunderstorms rather than a steady soak. Mornings are often clear enough to be useful.

Mellansäsong — mellan topparna

• Natur

  Blue whales off Mirissa

  1 nov – 15 apr · vanligtvisValsäsong

  The boats run out of Mirissa, three hours south, from November to April, and December to March is when the sea is calm enough to see anything. Early starts, and a genuinely rough ride on a bad morning.

Pågår fortfarande: Second inter-monsoon (1 okt – 20 nov (vanligtvis))

Mest folk — redaktionens toppmånad, Year-end break i Sri Lanka

Inget nytt börjar i december.

Pågår fortfarande: Blue whales off Mirissa (1 nov – 15 apr (vanligtvis))