Asia · Southern Asia
Sri Lanka
6 cities in the atlas · 7 airports with scheduled flights
Polonnaruwa · Photo: Bernard Gagnon · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
- Capital
- Colombo
- Currency
- LKR
- Sri Lankan Rupee
- Local time
- India Standard TimeUTC+05:30
- Calling code
- +94
- Driving
- On the left
- Plugs
- Type D and G
Facts
Sri Lanka in figures
From named datasets: GeoNames, CLDR, the World Bank and Wikidata. Each is credited at the foot of the page.
- Capital
- Colombo
- Currency
- Sri Lankan Rupee LKRToday's indicative rate: LKR 100 ≈ USD 0.302Indicative, from the day's reference rates; a bank or card will charge its own.
- Languages
- Official: Sinhala and TamilSpoken: Sinhala, Tamil and English
- Time zones
- India Standard TimeUTC+05:30
- Calling code
- +94
- Driving
- On the left
- Plugs
- Type D and G230 V · 50 HzAs recorded in Wikidata.
- Emergency numbers
- 110ambulance and fire119policeAs recorded in Wikidata. Check them locally on arrival; they are not the only safety information you need.
- Population
- 21,756,000 (2025, World Bank)
- Area
- 65,610 km²
- Internet domain
- .lk
- Land borders
- None: an island or a coastal territory with no land border recorded
When to go
Climate across Sri Lanka
On these averages, Colombo has a mean high between 18°C and 32°C and under 150 mm of rain in January to March and June to August.
- Mild to warm and dry
- Mild to warm, humid or showery
- Hot
- Cool
- Wet
- Cold
On the map
Where Sri Lanka is
The dashed box is the extent of the country's main landmass, from Natural Earth; outlying islands fall outside it. The dots are the cities with pages of their own.
Land borders
None: an island or a coastal territory with no land border recorded
Cities
Cities in Sri Lanka
All 6 places in the atlas: capitals, cities of 300,000 people or more, the places its airports serve, and the ones we have written guides to.
Smaller places with an airport · 5
Airports
Airports in Sri Lanka
Airports with scheduled flights and an IATA code, from OurAirports.
Guides
Our guides in Sri Lanka
From the journal
Related reading
Visas and entry
Visas and entry
Entry rules depend on your passport and change often, so this page does not state them. Check the destination government's official immigration website, or ask our visa desk to check your case for you.
Plan it
Plan a trip to Sri Lanka
Tell us where in Sri Lanka, when and who is travelling, and a person puts the flights, the stays and the rest into one quote.