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Beira Lake with Seema Malaka and the Lotus Tower, Colombo
ColomboBeira Lake with Seema Malaka and the Lotus Tower
Bell Rock outside Sedona, Sedona
SedonaBell Rock outside Sedona

Photos: Colombo by Mohamed Ansaf, Pexels License; Sedona by dconvertini, CC BY-SA 2.0, cropped.

Colombo or Sedona?

Our verdict in twelve categories, each scored against the same fixed benchmark cities, and the climate month by month, so you can choose for your trip.

Choose Colombo for

  • prices
  • beaches
  • food and drink

What lies behind each score is written up on Colombo’s own page.

Choose Sedona for

  • nature and the outdoors
  • wellness
  • families

What lies behind each score is written up on Sedona’s own page.

Scoreboard

Twelve categories on one fixed scale from 0 to 100. The shaded stretch is the gap between the two.

Beaches & swimming. Colombo 55, Sedona 16: Colombo leads by 39 points.
Food & drink. Colombo 66, Sedona 33: Colombo leads by 33 points.
Culture & sights. Colombo 45, Sedona 20: Colombo leads by 25 points.
Nightlife. Colombo 35, Sedona 8: Colombo leads by 27 points.
Nature & outdoors. Colombo 32, Sedona 93: Sedona leads by 61 points.
Day trips. Colombo 50, Sedona 55: Sedona leads by 5 points.
Good for families. Colombo 35, Sedona 42: Sedona leads by 7 points.
Getting around. Colombo 35, Sedona 22: Colombo leads by 13 points.
Shopping & style. Colombo 45, Sedona 34: Colombo leads by 11 points.
Affordability. Colombo 78, Sedona 18: Colombo leads by 60 points.
Live music & performing arts. Colombo 30, Sedona 13: Colombo leads by 17 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Colombo 48, Sedona 82: Sedona leads by 34 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Colombo and Sedona.

Your match

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders, and both match scores follow your weighting.

Colombo
Best match
46match

Wins on prices and beaches with your weighting.

Sedona
36match

Wins on nature and the outdoors and wellness with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

Pick your month. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Colombo in July

30 °Cdaytime high
26 °Cnight-time low
128 mmrain in the month
7 hsunshine a day
28 °Csea
13 hdaylight a day

Sedona in July

34 °Cdaytime high
21 °Cnight-time low
51 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
No seasea
14 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Sedona's station stands 153 m above the city centre, so the centre is likely a little warmer than the figures say.

Sedona has no rain gauge within 25 km of the centre, so its rainfall comes from a gridded climate dataset read at the city rather than from a gauge further away.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Colombo: 1991-2020 normals, Colombo (3 km from centre). Sedona: 2009-2025 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Sedona / West Sedona (1.3 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureColomboSedona
Official languageTamil, Sinhala-
CurrencySri Lanka Rupee (LKR)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsGM230 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+5:30UTC-7
Emergency numberPolice 119, ambulance 110, fire 110911
Elevation1 m1,319 m
Main airportBandaranaike International Colombo Airport (CMB)28 km from centre56 non-stop destinationsPhoenix Sky Harbor International Airport (PHX)160 km from centre148 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year-12 days

By the numbers

MeasureColomboSedona
City population647,5579,684
People per km²17,361195
Museums within 10 km100
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 months-

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Sources

Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. Rainfall where no rain gauge is within 25 km is from the TerraClimate 1991-2020 climatology (Abatzoglou et al. 2018, Scientific Data), read at the city. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). Non-stop route lists from the "Airlines and destinations" tables on English Wikipedia airport articles, by Wikipedia contributors, reused under CC BY-SA 4.0. Currency from the ISO 4217 register maintained by SIX, cross-checked against country data from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0). Price level from World Bank open data (PPP conversion factor for private consumption and official exchange rate), CC BY 4.0. Time zones from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0); clock offsets computed from the IANA time zone database. Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. Daylight hours computed from each destination's latitude using the NOAA solar position algorithm.

Category scores are our editorial verdict under rubric v3, each placed against the same fixed benchmark cities; the climate figures are measured. How the scores are set. Snapshot generated 2026-11-01. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.