Indexed entity
Colombo is the colombo-LK record in Sri Lanka: country slug sri-lanka, city slug colombo, ISO LK, continent Asia, canonical IANA zone Asia/Colombo.
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Live local time
Colombo, Sri Lanka
04:14:05 PMTuesday, June 2, 2026 · Asia/Colombo
Quick answer
It is currently 04:14:05 PM (IST, UTC+05:30) in Colombo, Sri Lanka — Business hours.
Pronunciation
Updated 8 days ago
Right now
29°C
Drizzle
3-day forecast
Tue
28°C
25°C
100% rain
Wed
28°C
25°C
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Thu
28°C
25°C
100% rain
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.
Today
Sunrise
05:53 AM
Sunset
06:23 PM
Day length
12h 30m
Golden hour
Blue hour
Civil twilight (–6°)
Nautical twilight (–12°)
Astronomical twilight (–18°)
Computed from latitude, longitude and date using the NOAA Solar Position Algorithm.
Reviewed by WorldClockTools editorial · Updated
Content reviewed Apr 30, 2026. City facts are content-reviewed separately from the live clock and from the generated city datasets. The current-time, daylight, weather, holiday, and business-overlap values are render-time snapshots for Colombo, not permanent claims; verify legal, travel, market, or compliance decisions with official local sources.
Live values rendered at Jun 2, 10:44 AM UTC.
Current local time
04:14:05 PM
Tuesday, June 2, 2026
Time zone
IST
Asia/Colombo · UTC+05:30
Next holiday
No upcoming public holiday in view
Holiday calendar signal unavailable
Business overlap now
2 / 8
Reference markets are overlapping with Colombo right now
Nearest airport
No nearby airport
No indexed airport link is currently mapped near Colombo
Indexed airports
0
Curated airport references available for Sri Lanka
Coordination board
A compact checklist for calls, launches, travel handoffs, and date-sensitive work tied to Colombo, Sri Lanka.
Snapshot Jun 2, 2026 · 16:14 GMT+5:30
2 reference cities are overlapping now
Colombo is currently inside the simple 09:00-17:00 local planning window.
Local status
In window
Offset now
UTC+05:30
Zone label
GMT+5:30
London
11:44 AM / -4h 30m
Dubai
02:44 PM / -1h 30m
Schedule risk
No upcoming country holiday signal in view
Travel cue
Dehiwala-Mount Lavinia, 11 km
Daylight cue
Today's daylight window is 05:53 AM to 06:23 PM, with solar noon around 12:08 PM and total daylight of 12h 30m.
Mapped location
6.94°N, 79.85°E
Use these reference hubs as a first-pass call plan before opening a full meeting planner.
London
11:44 AM / -4h 30m
Good live-call window with Colombo right now.
New York
06:44 AM / -9h 30m
Use as a follow-up or async handoff, not an immediate-call default.
Los Angeles
03:44 AM / -12h 30m
Use as a follow-up or async handoff, not an immediate-call default.
Dubai
02:44 PM / -1h 30m
Good live-call window with Colombo right now.
Singapore
06:44 PM / +2h 30m
Use as a follow-up or async handoff, not an immediate-call default.
Good for travel-day timing, hotel check-ins, and same-day arrival calls around Colombo.
No curated airport is currently mapped close enough to show as a planning cue.
Lock the timezone, not the offset
Use Asia/Colombo for future-dated events. Current offset is UTC+05:30; stable January-to-July offset at UTC+05:30.
Pick a live coordination window
Start with London, Dubai because they overlap with Colombo right now.
Check local interruptions
No upcoming country holiday signal in view. Nearest mapped context: Dehiwala-Mount Lavinia, 11 km.
Guard against stale assumptions
No upcoming offset change was detected in the next two calendar years for Asia/Colombo. Editorial review date: 2026-04-30.
Watch the DST and holiday edge cases
Colombo has no near-term DST change or holiday interruption in view, but future rules can still be revised by local authorities.
These values are planning context from the live clock, IANA timezone rules, curated city and airport records, and holiday calendars when available. Confirm official office, aviation, market, legal, or compliance decisions with the relevant source.
Local planning context
Route, catalog identity, coordinates, population record, timezone snapshot, nearby cities, and travel anchors for Colombo.
Canonical route
/time/sri-lanka/colombo/
Catalog identity
colombo-LK · LK · Asia
Coordinate cell
6.94°N, 79.85°E · lat 6.935 · lon 79.849 · cell 694:7985
Population record
648,034 residents · country rank 1
Zone snapshot
Asia/Colombo · GMT+5:30 · UTC+05:30
January / July offsets
UTC+05:30 / UTC+05:30
Nearest indexed neighbor
Dehiwala-Mount Lavinia, Sri Lanka · 11 km
Nearest world hub
Singapore · 2,729 km
Closest airport references
No curated airport link is mapped directly to Colombo
Zone peer roster
Dehiwala-Mount Lavinia, Sri Lanka · Maharagama, Sri Lanka · Jaffna, Sri Lanka
The page below keeps the timezone answer attached to the real local record for Colombo: country facts, coordinate bands, nearby-city distances, airport references, and current calendar signals.
Colombo is the colombo-LK record in Sri Lanka: country slug sri-lanka, city slug colombo, ISO LK, continent Asia, canonical IANA zone Asia/Colombo.
6.94°N, 79.85°E; Northern Hemisphere, Eastern Hemisphere; rounded latitude band 6 and longitude band 79; exact decimal pair 6.93548, 79.84868.
Sri Lanka: official name Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka; capital Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte; region Asia; subregion Southern Asia; country population 21,763,170; area 65,610 km²; languages Sinhala, Tamil; currencies LKR Sri Lankan rupee. This is the country layer behind the Colombo clock, not a generic timezone-only record.
Sri Lanka: Sri Lanka, officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, formerly known as Ceylon, is an island country in South Asia. It is located in the Indian Ocean, southwest of the Bay of Bengal, and is separated from India by the Gulf of Mannar and the Palk Strait. Sri Lanka shares a maritime border with the Maldives to the southwest and India to the northwest, and lies across the Bay of Bengal from Bangladesh and Myanmar to the northeast and the Andaman and Nicobar Islands of India to the east. Its capital is Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte, while Colombo is its largest city and the political, financial and cultural centre. Sri Lanka's population is 22 million; with the Sinhalese people, who speak the Sinhala language, forming the vast majority—while Tamil is spoken by the large Tamil minority. Other long-established ethnic groups include the Moors, Indian Tamils, Burghers, Malays, Chinese, and Vedda. Source: Wikipedia.
Dehiwala-Mount Lavinia [dehiwala-mount-lavinia-LK, LK, Asia/Colombo, 11 km]; Maharagama [maharagama-LK, LK, Asia/Colombo, 13 km]; Jaffna [jaffna-LK, LK, Asia/Colombo, 304 km]; Bengaluru [bengaluru-IN, IN, Asia/Kolkata, 715 km]; Male [male-MV, MV, Indian/Maldives, 766 km]; Hyderabad [hyderabad-IN, IN, Asia/Kolkata, 1172 km]; Mumbai [mumbai-IN, IN, Asia/Kolkata, 1545 km]; Khulna [khulna-BD, BD, Asia/Dhaka, 2049 km]
Colombo is part of this indexed country cluster: Colombo [colombo-LK, Asia/Colombo, pop 648,034]; Dehiwala-Mount Lavinia [dehiwala-mount-lavinia-LK, Asia/Colombo, pop 219,827]; Maharagama [maharagama-LK, Asia/Colombo, pop 195,355]; Jaffna [jaffna-LK, Asia/Colombo, pop 169,102].
Singapore 2,729 km; Dubai 3,308 km; Tokyo 6,847 km; London 8,711 km; Sydney 8,750 km; São Paulo 14,023 km; New York 14,081 km; Los Angeles 15,075 km
Colombo has no nearby curated airport reference in the indexed airport snapshot for Sri Lanka.
Colombo renders Jun 2, 2026 · 16:14 GMT+5:30; GMT+5:30 at UTC+05:30; January UTC+05:30; July UTC+05:30; next holiday not currently surfaced.
This evidence pack is what keeps smaller city pages from reading like timezone templates: concrete route, coordinate, population, timezone, neighbor, airport, holiday, and source signals currently available for Colombo.
Colombo is a context-and-reference city; rank #1 of 4 retained Sri Lanka city pages. The route is /time/sri-lanka/colombo/ and the city id is colombo-LK.
Colombo has 12 of 17 factual signals available on this render. Missing long-form editorial is not treated as missing time data when route, zone, coordinates, country, nearby-city, and planning signals are present.
Colombo is pinned at 6.94°N, 79.85°E; Dehiwala-Mount Lavinia (11 km); Singapore (2,729 km).
Asia/Colombo resolves to stable UTC+05:30 offset across January and July. 3 retained city pages share this zone; 0 same-zone anchors are outside Sri Lanka.
Colombo has no direct nearby-airport handoff · no upcoming public-holiday signal in view · 0 country airport references · 0 holidays in the current country-year snapshot.
Colombo uses IANA timezone math, curated GeoNames-derived city records, a city reference summary, a country reference summary, OurAirports links where mapped, Nager.Date holiday rows where available, and local solar/weather snapshots where coordinates are present.
These notes are pulled from the city-context and reference-summary snapshots, so same-timezone cities do not rely only on shared UTC offset text.
Colombo: Colombo is the largest city of Sri Lanka by population, serving as the country's executive and judicial capital. It is also the de facto commercial capital of Sri Lanka. The Colombo metropolitan area is estimated to have a population of 5.6 million, and 752,993 within the municipal limits. It is the financial centre of the island and a tourist destination. It is located on the west coast of the island. It is also the administrative capital of the Western Province and the district capital of Colombo District.
Sri Lanka briefly used UTC+6 and UTC+6:30 between 1996 and 2006 before returning to UTC+5:30, matching India.
Sri Lanka briefly used UTC+6 and UTC+6:30 between 1996 and 2006 before returning to UTC+5:30, matching India.
Does not observe daylight saving time. The UTC offset (+05:30) is constant year-round.
Colombo is listed in the dataset snapshot as 5.5 hours ahead of UTC (offset +05:30). 4.5 hours ahead of London, 3.5 hours behind Tokyo.
Geographically at longitude 79.85°, Colombo's mean solar noon falls about 11 minutes after civil 12:00 under the year-round civil offset — local sunrise and sunset run later on the clock than they would on true solar time.
Computed from the city coordinates using the NOAA solar position model across 2026. These values are mechanical and identical for every year-relative render, so two cities at different latitudes always produce distinct numbers.
Longest day
Jun 20 (12h 32m)
Shortest day
Dec 13 (11h 43m)
Year-round average
12h 7m
Annual swing
0h 49m
See the full daylight curve for Colombo at /sun/colombo/.
Each row projects a hub's 09:00-17:00 local working day into Colombo local time so a glance reveals when each market is reachable from this city.
| Hub | IANA zone | Window in Colombo |
|---|---|---|
| New York | America/New_York | 18:30 - 02:30 (next day) |
| London | Europe/London | 13:30 - 21:30 |
| Frankfurt | Europe/Berlin | 12:30 - 20:30 |
| Dubai | Asia/Dubai | 10:30 - 18:30 |
| Mumbai | Asia/Kolkata | 09:00 - 17:00 |
| Singapore | Asia/Singapore | 06:30 - 14:30 |
| Hong Kong | Asia/Hong_Kong | 06:30 - 14:30 |
| Tokyo | Asia/Tokyo | 05:30 - 13:30 |
Reference fields include Colombo's city id, coordinates, timezone, country profile, nearby cities, airport links, holidays, weather, and related event/market context.
Snapshot at render time: 04:14:05 PM on Tuesday, June 2, 2026 in Colombo (UTC+05:30, IST).
Status
Daytime
Week Number
Week 23
Day of Year
Day 153
Days Remaining
212
Sunrise and sunset
05:53 AM to 06:23 PM
Day length 12h 30m · Solar noon 12:08 PM
Tracked countdowns rendered for Colombo local time, with sunrise/sunset and DST stats per page.
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Population
648K
Coordinates
6.94, 79.85
Timezone
Asia/Colombo
Indexed airports
0
Capital
Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte
Languages
Sinhala, Tamil
Currency
LKR (Rs රු)
Country area
65,610 km²
Colombo, Sri Lanka (population rank #1 in this dataset). Time zone: Asia/Colombo (IST, UTC+05:30); population ~648K.
Coordinates: 6.94°N, 79.85°E. Northern Hemisphere deep tropics, ~770 km from the equator.
Today the sun rises around 05:53 AM and sets around 06:23 PM in Colombo — about 12h 30m of daylight. Sri Lanka stays on standard time here, so UTC+05:30 is stable through the year.
Dehiwala-Mount Lavinia (11 km from Colombo) gives this page its nearest mapped city context, with no airport pages currently indexed for Sri Lanka.
Colombo is indexed as a Asia city in the LK country record, using Asia/Colombo as its canonical IANA timezone. The canonical route for this city is /time/sri-lanka/colombo/.
Location context: 6.94°N, 79.85°E; population 648,034; nearest indexed city Dehiwala-Mount Lavinia is about 11 km away; closest reference hub is Singapore, about 2,729 km away.
Country planning context: capital Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte; subregion Southern Asia; languages Sinhala, Tamil; currency LKR (Rs රු); area 65,610 km²; 0 curated airport references; no upcoming holiday signal currently in view.
Sri Lanka briefly used UTC+6 and UTC+6:30 between 1996 and 2006 before returning to UTC+5:30, matching India.
Does not observe daylight saving time. The UTC offset (+05:30) is constant year-round.
Colombo is listed in the dataset snapshot as 5.5 hours ahead of UTC (offset +05:30). 4.5 hours ahead of London, 3.5 hours behind Tokyo.
Geographically at longitude 79.85°, Colombo's mean solar noon falls about 11 minutes after civil 12:00 under the year-round civil offset — local sunrise and sunset run later on the clock than they would on true solar time.
Colombo sits at 6.94°N, within ten degrees of the equator — day length stays close to twelve hours year-round and seasonal sunrise/sunset variation is minimal.
Sizeable city with about 648 thousand residents in the city proper.
Related clock anchors for Colombo: Dehiwala-Mount Lavinia (same time), San Francisco (−12.5h), Los Angeles (−12.5h), Singapore (+2.5h), Mumbai (same time).
Cross-link to the most-searched comparison pages so you can plan calls and travel between cities.
sri-lanka
Tuesday, June 2, 2026
Timezone
IST
IANA Zone
Asia/Colombo
UTC Offset
UTC+05:30
DST Status
Standard Time
Week Number
Week 23
Day of Year
Day 153
Days Remaining
212
Quarter
Q2
Countries at UTC+05:30
Sri Lanka, India
Other cities in this timezone
London
-4h 30m
New York
-9h 30m
Los Angeles
-12h 30m
Dubai
-1h 30m
Singapore
+2h 30m
Tokyo
+3h 30m
Sydney
+4h 30m
São Paulo
-8h 30m
Year-long daylight curve. Shows how dramatic high-latitude summers are.
Shows whether it's currently business hours (9am to 5pm) in major financial centers, and how many hours they overlap with Colombo.
City time, coordinate and population facts on this page are derived from the following authoritative datasets.
Distances from Colombo: closest hubs Singapore (~2,729 km), Dubai (~3,308 km), Tokyo (~6,847 km); farthest indexed hub Los Angeles (~15,075 km).
Colombo sits inside Sri Lanka — the Southern Asia subregion, capital Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte, languages Sinhala, Tamil, currency LKR (Rs රු).
Closest indexed cities to Colombo: Dehiwala-Mount Lavinia (11 km), Maharagama (13 km), Jaffna (304 km), Bengaluru (715 km).
The current curated airport set does not expose a nearby airport block for Colombo, so this page falls back to timezone and regional planning context instead of showing a broken travel panel.
Exchange snapshot
Currency snapshot unavailable
Coordination pulse
2 of 8 reference markets are in live business-hour overlap now
| City | Current local time | Difference | Business-hours overlap |
|---|---|---|---|
| London | 11:44 AM | -4h 30m | Good to call now |
| New York | 06:44 AM | -9h 30m | Check the overlap widget below |
| Los Angeles | 03:44 AM | -12h 30m | Check the overlap widget below |
| Dubai | 02:44 PM | -1h 30m | Good to call now |
| Singapore | 06:44 PM | +2h 30m | Check the overlap widget below |
| Tokyo | 07:44 PM | +3h 30m | Check the overlap widget below |
| Sydney | 08:44 PM | +4h 30m | Check the overlap widget below |
| São Paulo | 07:44 AM | -8h 30m | Check the overlap widget below |
Colombo is in the Asia/Colombo timezone (IST), with a UTC offset of +05:30.
Colombo does not have a detected daylight-saving offset change in the current IANA rules. The offset resolves to UTC+05:30 in both January and July for this year.
The current UTC offset for Colombo is UTC+05:30.
No. The business-hours blocks use a simple 09:00-17:00 local-time planning window for Colombo, plus live comparisons with reference cities. Confirm office, market, legal, or holiday-sensitive hours with the relevant official source.
The live clock, offset, daylight, weather, holiday, and business-overlap values are render-time snapshots from Jun 2, 2026 · 16:14 GMT+5:30. Static city facts are reviewed separately and come from curated timezone, city, airport, holiday, and country-profile datasets.
Colombo sits at 6.94°N, 79.85°E in Sri Lanka, with about 648K residents (rank #1 by population in this dataset).
The closest reference hub to Colombo is Singapore, about 2,729 km away as the crow flies.
Dehiwala-Mount Lavinia is the closest indexed city, roughly 11 km from Colombo.
Colombo uses Sri Lankan rupee (LKR, symbol Rs රු) as the local currency of Sri Lanka.
The longest day of 2026 in Colombo falls on Jun 20 with about 12h 32m of daylight. The shortest is Dec 13 with 11h 43m; the year-round average is 12h 7m.
In Colombo local time, the 09:00-17:00 working day of major hubs falls at: New York 18:30-02:30 (next day); London 13:30-21:30; Frankfurt 12:30-20:30; Dubai 10:30-18:30. These windows shift twice a year when northern-hemisphere DST starts and ends.