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Is there a power outage in Sri Lanka?

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No large power outage reported

Cloudflare Radar has not reported a power outage in Sri Lanka that cut the internet, and nobody here is reporting one right now.

0 people reported no power in the last hour
Internet in Sri Lanka now: Operational
A big power cut shows up within minutes as a drop in the internet; the cause follows once Cloudflare Radar has confirmed it.

0power reports, last 24 hours

3power outages since 2022

3of them nationwide

11 hourslongest

Power reports, last 24 hours

No reports

reports per 15 minutes usual level power outage confirmed (Cloudflare Radar)

Power outages in Sri Lanka

Started (UTC)	What happened	Duration
Oct 17, 2026 06:00	Nationwide power outage A nationwide power outage caused a significant drop in Internet traffic in Sri Lanka	11 hours
Feb 9, 2025 05:45	Nationwide power outage Monkey-related incident caused power and Internet outages nationwide	10 hours
Dec 9, 2023 11:15	Nationwide power outage Nationwide power outage due to system failure	8 hours

Source: Cloudflare Radar Outage Center (CC BY-NC 4.0), outages with the cause "power outage". Times in UTC.

How we know

When the power goes out, phone masts, routers and data centres without backup power go dark, and a country's internet traffic drops. Cloudflare sees that drop in its own traffic, checks what caused it, and lists it in its Outage Center. We take the ones caused by a power outage and show them here and on the live map (⚡).

That makes this a list of large outages: a whole country, or a region big enough to show up in internet traffic. A power cut in one town, or one that backup power bridges, is not in it. The cause is added by hand, so an outage can appear here a few hours after it began; our own probes on the live map show the drop in the internet straight away.