Time-zone spread
Sri Lanka is modeled as a single-zone country on this page, so the main planning risk is not internal time spread but coordination with DST-observing countries elsewhere.
Largest indexed cluster: Asia/Colombo · 4 cities.
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Country time hub
Sri Lanka has 1 time zone.
Last updated recently. Country-level time references, currency snapshots, nearby airports, and next-holiday context refresh on the daily page update window.
What time is it in Sri Lanka
It's currently 6:51 PM GMT+5:30 in Sri Lanka, which is UTC+05:30. Sri Lanka does not observe daylight saving time.
Primary timezone
Asia/Colombo
Indexed cities
4
Next holiday
No upcoming holiday found
See the holiday page for the full calendar.
Airport pages
0
Operational country read
This page is classified as a compact country time hub. It combines city coverage, time-zone spread, holiday signals, airport links, and reference-market overlap so users can decide whether to open a city page, a meeting planner, or a travel page next.
Time-zone spread
Sri Lanka is modeled as a single-zone country on this page, so the main planning risk is not internal time spread but coordination with DST-observing countries elsewhere.
Largest indexed cluster: Asia/Colombo · 4 cities.
Reference-market overlap
Sri Lanka is outside shared business hours for the sampled reference markets right now, so meeting planning should start from the city compare or meeting-planner tools rather than a cold call.
Snapshot uses 8 reference market clocks against Asia/Colombo.
Planning next step
Use the city rows below for the next level of specificity; this country hub intentionally stays at national planning depth.
Country evidence
Practical use cases
Trust boundaries
Updated 2026-05-22 · ECB rates
Code
LKR
Live ECB rate not available for this currency.
Conversion rates aren’t published for this currency by the ECB. The local code is shown for reference.
Sri Lanka, an Indian Ocean island nation of roughly 22 million people with a GDP near USD 85 billion, sits on a strategic shipping choke point and earns its foreign exchange from tea, tourism, and apparel, with the Colombo Stock Exchange (CSE) anchoring capital markets. Civil time is Sri Lanka Standard Time (Asia/Colombo, UTC+5:30) with no DST and a single nationwide timezone; the country briefly moved to UTC+6 in 1996 to ease a drought-induced power crisis before returning to +5:30 in 2006, and today only India and Sri Lanka use the +5:30 half-hour offset (Myanmar uses +6:30, not +5:30). The presidential republic is led by President Anura Kumara Dissanayake of the NPP/JVP, elected 21 September 2024 as the first left-wing populist head of state, with PM Harini Amarasuriya as only the third woman to hold the office. Recovery from the 2022 sovereign default continues under an ongoing IMF program, while tourism rebuilds after the 2019 Easter bombings, the pandemic, and the 2022 collapse.
Sources
Last verified 2026-05-23 (manual).
Capital
Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte
Population
21,763,170
Area
65,610 km²
Languages
Sinhala, Tamil
Currencies
LKR
Indexed cities
4
Indexed airports
0
Next public holiday
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Sri Lanka is one of the country intelligence hubs in WorldClockTools, so this page combines live timezone structure, major city clocks, holidays, airports, and same-day planning signals instead of stopping at a flat country index.
Sri Lanka currently spans 1 curated timezone. It sits in the Southern Asia subregion. The wider region is Asia.
Mon, Jun 1
Colombo
06:51 PM
Asia/Colombo
Mon, Jun 1
Dehiwala-Mount Lavinia
06:51 PM
Asia/Colombo
Mon, Jun 1
Jaffna
06:51 PM
Asia/Colombo
Mon, Jun 1
Maharagama
06:51 PM
Asia/Colombo
Exchange snapshot
Currency snapshot unavailable
| Reference market | Current local time | Difference | Business-hours overlap |
|---|---|---|---|
| London | 02:21 PM | -4h 30m | Plan around office hours |
| New York | 09:21 AM | -9h 30m | Plan around office hours |
| Los Angeles | 06:21 AM | -12h 30m | Plan around office hours |
| Dubai | 05:21 PM | -1h 30m | Plan around office hours |
| Singapore | 09:21 PM | +2h 30m | Plan around office hours |
| Tokyo | 10:21 PM | +3h 30m | Plan around office hours |
| Sydney | 11:21 PM | +4h 30m | Plan around office hours |
| São Paulo | 10:21 AM | -8h 30m | Plan around office hours |
Reference fields include Sri Lanka: ISO code, canonical slug, timezone roster, indexed cities, airport rows, next holiday, currency/language hints, reference-market overlap, and country-specific planning text.
Country time hubs work best when they connect to the deeper city, airport, compare, and market route families.