If the experts of this website could sum up Sri Lanka' weather patterns in one sentence it would be: Tropical with very obvious wet and dry seasons. Sri Lanka is also a little island packed with different climates, it goes from beaches to rain forests, to mountains, back to beaches. The seasons in Sri Lanka can not be split up into Summer, Winter, Fall, and Spring. Sri Lanka has monsoon seasons. The reason the climate is the way it is, is because of Sri Lanka's location. It is located North of the equator in the tropics, which gives it a tropical climate. It is located in a place where monsoon winds have easy access to the little island and monsoons control the weather patterns.