Local time in Sri Lanka
Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka
Current local time in Sri Lanka (UTC+5:30). The clock below updates live in your browser.
Time difference — Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte (administrative), Colombo (commercial)
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Differences are relative to Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte (administrative), Colombo (commercial), Sri Lanka, and account for daylight saving time right now.
Time zone information for Sri Lanka
- Standard label
- UTC+5:30
- Standard offset (Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte (administrative), Colombo (commercial))
- UTC+5:30
- Daylight saving time
- Not observed
- Number of time zones
- 1
- Capital
- Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte (administrative), Colombo (commercial)
- IANA zones
- Asia/Colombo
Sri Lanka uses UTC+5:30 as its standard time. Clocks stay on the same offset all year round — daylight saving time is not observed. Times on this page are computed in your browser from the IANA time zone database, so they always match the real current time in Sri Lanka.
Sunrise and sunset in Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte
At 6.9° north, Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte gets 12 h 31 min of daylight around the June solstice but only 11 h 43 min around the December solstice — a difference of 0 h 48 min.
| Date | Sunrise | Solar noon | Sunset | Daylight |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 21 January | 06:29 | 12:22 | 18:16 | 11 h 47 min |
| 21 February | 06:27 | 12:25 | 18:23 | 11 h 56 min |
| 21 March | 06:15 | 12:18 | 18:22 | 12 h 07 min |
| 21 April | 06:01 | 12:10 | 18:19 | 12 h 18 min |
| 21 May | 05:54 | 12:08 | 18:22 | 12 h 27 min |
| 21 June | 05:57 | 12:13 | 18:28 | 12 h 31 min |
| 21 July | 06:03 | 12:17 | 18:31 | 12 h 28 min |
| 21 August | 06:05 | 12:15 | 18:24 | 12 h 19 min |
| 21 September | 06:01 | 12:04 | 18:08 | 12 h 08 min |
| 21 October | 05:57 | 11:56 | 17:54 | 11 h 56 min |
| 21 November | 06:03 | 11:57 | 17:51 | 11 h 47 min |
| 21 December | 06:17 | 12:09 | 18:01 | 11 h 43 min |
Calculated for Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte (6.90°, 79.92°; coordinates from Wikidata) with the standard solar-position formulas used by NOAA, for a sea-level horizon. Results are accurate to about a minute; hills, buildings and altitude shift what you actually see. Times change by only a minute or two from year to year.
Daylight saving time in Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka does not change its clocks: it stays on UTC+5:30 all year in 2026 and 2027.
Dates come from the IANA time zone database as bundled at build time. Governments occasionally change their rules at short notice.