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Free Online Radio Stations in Sri Lanka

Stream live radio from Sri Lanka for free — news, talk and music stations, playable instantly in your browser. Use the genre filter to narrow down by style, or search for a specific station by name.

Radio in Sri Lanka at a glance

Sri Lanka has 91 radio stations registered in the Radio-Browser directory, and 50 of them currently stream over a secure (HTTPS) connection, which is what this page lists. The most-played stations at the moment include Shakthi Fm, Sooriyan Fm Sri Lanka and Hiru FM. Common genre tags include entertainment, news, pop, top 40 and dance. Where stations report a language, the most common are Sinhala, English and Tamil. Stations are based in places such as Colombo, Sri lanka and Private.

The figures below describe all 50 working stations that offer a secure stream, based on directory data refreshed on 9 October 2026. A station can carry more than one genre tag or language, so shares can add up to more than 100%. Language figures cover only the 29 stations that report a language.

Most common genre tags

Genre tagStationsShare
entertainment918%
news714%
pop36%
top 4036%
dance24%
english24%
sri lanka24%
tamil music24%

Broadcast languages

LanguageStationsShare
Sinhala1966%
English621%
Tamil310%
Arabic13%
Colombo13%
Dutch13%

Where stations are based

RegionStationsShare
Colombo612%
Sri lanka510%
Private12%

Stream quality

Stream quality: the median bitrate is 128 kbps, from the 45 stations that report one. Of the stations that report a codec, 80% use MP3 and 20% use AAC.

Frequently asked questions about radio in Sri Lanka

How many radio stations are there in Sri Lanka?

Sri Lanka has 91 radio stations registered in the Radio-Browser directory. 50 of them currently stream over a secure (HTTPS) connection and are listed on this page.

What are the most popular radio stations in Sri Lanka?

Ranked by how often listeners have played them through the directory, the most-played stations include Shakthi Fm, Sooriyan Fm Sri Lanka, Hiru FM, NETH FM and SLBC Tamil National Service. Rankings change as listening changes.

What kinds of radio can I listen to in Sri Lanka?

Among the stations we sampled, the most common genre tags are entertainment, news, pop, top 40 and dance. Use the Genre filter at the top of this page to narrow the list.

What languages do radio stations in Sri Lanka broadcast in?

Where stations report a language, the most common are Sinhala, English and Tamil.

Do I need an account or an app to listen to radio from Sri Lanka?

No. Open a station and press Play; it streams directly in your web browser. There is nothing to install and no account to create.

Why won't a station from Sri Lanka play?

Stations occasionally go offline, and some only allow listeners inside their own country. Try another station, or work through our guide to fixing radio streams that will not play.

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Station counts, genre tags, languages and regions come from the community-maintained Radio-Browser directory and were last refreshed on 9 October 2026. Summaries on this page are generated automatically from that data; see how we list stations.