The best time
to visit Negombo.

Best time: Year-round.

Weather: Hot 26–32°C; monsoon showers May–June.

Negombo sits twenty minutes from the international airport — a working fishing town with a long beach, a fish market that runs at dawn, and a string of comfortable beach hotels that suit a single arrival or departure night.

• · Stay in Negombo only on arrival or departure — Colombo is more interesting.
• · Lagoon-side hotels are calmer than beach-side.
• · The dawn fish market is the local highlight — go by 6am.