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Can you bring alcohol to Sri Lanka?

Short answer
Allowed, within limits

  • Alcohol

    allowed, within limits

    Tourists: two regular-size bottles of wine and one and a half litres of spirits, duty-free.

    Sri Lanka Customs' passenger guide lists the tourist exemption as 'Two regular-size bottles of wine and one and a half liters of spirits' (plus toilet water up to a quarter litre and a small quantity of perfume and souvenirs up to US$250). The Passenger Services Directorate page states the foreigner limit as '1½ litres' of alcoholic beverages (residents 2½ litres) and adds that 'All liquor should either be purchased from Sri Lanka Duty Free shops or brought from abroad on the day of arrival. Liquor sent as Unaccompanied Baggage will not be allowed free of duty.' Excess is taxed at normal rates.

    Also covers: alcohol, wine, beer, spirits, liquor, whisky, vodka, gin, rum, duty free alcohol

    Source Travellers — Passenger Guide, Sri Lanka CustomsChecked against the source on 2026-10-09

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