Indexed entity
Jaffna is the jaffna-LK record in Sri Lanka: country slug sri-lanka, city slug jaffna, ISO LK, continent Asia, canonical IANA zone Asia/Colombo.
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Live local time
Jaffna, Sri Lanka
04:15:01 PMTuesday, June 2, 2026 · Asia/Colombo
Quick answer
It is currently 04:15:01 PM (IST, UTC+05:30) in Jaffna, Sri Lanka — Business hours.
Pronunciation
Updated 8 days ago
Right now
31°C
Thunderstorm
3-day forecast
Tue
31°C
28°C
22% rain
Wed
31°C
28°C
26% rain
Thu
30°C
28°C
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
05:48 AM
Sunset
06:27 PM
Day length
12h 39m
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 Jaffna, not permanent claims; verify legal, travel, market, or compliance decisions with official local sources.
Live values rendered at Jun 2, 10:45 AM UTC.
Current local time
04:15:01 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 Jaffna right now
Nearest airport
No nearby airport
No indexed airport link is currently mapped near Jaffna
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 Jaffna, Sri Lanka.
Snapshot Jun 2, 2026 · 16:15 GMT+5:30
2 reference cities are overlapping now
Jaffna 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
11:45 AM / -4h 30m
Dubai
02:45 PM / -1h 30m
Schedule risk
No upcoming country holiday signal in view
Travel cue
Colombo, 304 km
Daylight cue
Today's daylight window is 05:48 AM to 06:27 PM, with solar noon around 12:08 PM and total daylight of 12h 39m.
Mapped location
9.67°N, 80.01°E
Use these reference hubs as a first-pass call plan before opening a full meeting planner.
London
11:45 AM / -4h 30m
Good live-call window with Jaffna right now.
New York
06:45 AM / -9h 30m
Use as a follow-up or async handoff, not an immediate-call default.
Los Angeles
03:45 AM / -12h 30m
Use as a follow-up or async handoff, not an immediate-call default.
Dubai
02:45 PM / -1h 30m
Good live-call window with Jaffna right now.
Singapore
06:45 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 Jaffna.
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 Jaffna right now.
Check local interruptions
No upcoming country holiday signal in view. Nearest mapped context: Colombo, 304 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
Jaffna 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 Jaffna.
Canonical route
/time/sri-lanka/jaffna/
Catalog identity
jaffna-LK · LK · Asia
Coordinate cell
9.67°N, 80.01°E · lat 9.668 · lon 80.007 · cell 967:8001
Population record
169,102 residents · country rank 4
Zone snapshot
Asia/Colombo · GMT+5:30 · UTC+05:30
January / July offsets
UTC+05:30 / UTC+05:30
Nearest indexed neighbor
Colombo, Sri Lanka · 304 km
Nearest world hub
Singapore · 2,791 km
Closest airport references
No curated airport link is mapped directly to Jaffna
Zone peer roster
Colombo, Sri Lanka · Dehiwala-Mount Lavinia, Sri Lanka · Maharagama, Sri Lanka
The page below keeps the timezone answer attached to the real local record for Jaffna: country facts, coordinate bands, nearby-city distances, airport references, and current calendar signals.
Jaffna is the jaffna-LK record in Sri Lanka: country slug sri-lanka, city slug jaffna, ISO LK, continent Asia, canonical IANA zone Asia/Colombo.
9.67°N, 80.01°E; Northern Hemisphere, Eastern Hemisphere; rounded latitude band 9 and longitude band 80; exact decimal pair 9.66845, 80.00742.
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 Jaffna 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.
Colombo [colombo-LK, LK, Asia/Colombo, 304 km]; Maharagama [maharagama-LK, LK, Asia/Colombo, 314 km]; Dehiwala-Mount Lavinia [dehiwala-mount-lavinia-LK, LK, Asia/Colombo, 315 km]; Bengaluru [bengaluru-IN, IN, Asia/Kolkata, 452 km]; Hyderabad [hyderabad-IN, IN, Asia/Kolkata, 874 km]; Male [male-MV, MV, Indian/Maldives, 942 km]; Mumbai [mumbai-IN, IN, Asia/Kolkata, 1296 km]; Khulna [khulna-BD, BD, Asia/Dhaka, 1781 km]
Jaffna 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 2,791 km; Dubai 3,131 km; Tokyo 6,652 km; London 8,486 km; Sydney 8,918 km; New York 13,811 km; São Paulo 14,159 km; Los Angeles 14,786 km
Jaffna has no nearby curated airport reference in the indexed airport snapshot for Sri Lanka.
Jaffna renders Jun 2, 2026 · 16:15 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 Jaffna.
Jaffna is a context-and-reference city; rank #4 of 4 retained Sri Lanka city pages. The route is /time/sri-lanka/jaffna/ and the city id is jaffna-LK.
Jaffna 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.
Jaffna is pinned at 9.67°N, 80.01°E; Colombo (304 km); Singapore (2,791 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.
Jaffna 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.
Jaffna 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.
Jaffna: Jaffna is the capital city of the Northern Province of Sri Lanka. It is the administrative headquarters of the Jaffna District located on a peninsula of the same name. With a population of 88,138 in 2012, Jaffna is Sri Lanka's 12th most populous city. Jaffna is approximately ten kilometres from Kandarodai which served as an emporium in the Jaffna peninsula from classical antiquity. Jaffna's suburb Nallur served as the capital of the four-century-long medieval Tamil Jaffna Kingdom.
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.
Jaffna 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 80.01°, Jaffna's mean solar noon falls about 10 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 10 (12h 41m)
Shortest day
Dec 21 (11h 33m)
Year-round average
12h 8m
Annual swing
1h 8m
See the full daylight curve for Jaffna at /sun/jaffna/.
Each row projects a hub's 09:00-17:00 local working day into Jaffna local time so a glance reveals when each market is reachable from this city.
| Hub | IANA zone | Window in Jaffna |
|---|---|---|
| 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 Jaffna's city id, coordinates, timezone, country profile, nearby cities, airport links, holidays, weather, and related event/market context.
Snapshot at render time: 04:15:01 PM on Tuesday, June 2, 2026 in Jaffna (UTC+05:30, IST).
Status
Daytime
Week Number
Week 23
Day of Year
Day 153
Days Remaining
212
Sunrise and sunset
05:48 AM to 06:27 PM
Day length 12h 39m · Solar noon 12:08 PM
Tracked countdowns rendered for Jaffna local time, with sunrise/sunset and DST stats per page.
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Population
169.1K
Coordinates
9.67, 80.01
Timezone
Asia/Colombo
Indexed airports
0
Capital
Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte
Languages
Sinhala, Tamil
Currency
LKR (Rs රු)
Country area
65,610 km²
Jaffna, Sri Lanka (population rank #4 in this dataset). Time zone: Asia/Colombo (IST, UTC+05:30); population ~169.1K.
Coordinates: 9.67°N, 80.01°E. Northern Hemisphere deep tropics, ~1073 km from the equator.
Today the sun rises around 05:48 AM and sets around 06:27 PM in Jaffna — about 12h 39m of daylight. Sri Lanka stays on standard time here, so UTC+05:30 is stable through the year.
Colombo (304 km from Jaffna) gives this page its nearest mapped city context, with no airport pages currently indexed for Sri Lanka.
Jaffna 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/jaffna/.
Location context: 9.67°N, 80.01°E; population 169,102; nearest indexed city Colombo is about 304 km away; closest reference hub is Singapore, about 2,791 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.
Jaffna 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 80.01°, Jaffna's mean solar noon falls about 10 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.
Jaffna sits at 9.67°N, within ten degrees of the equator — day length stays close to twelve hours year-round and seasonal sunrise/sunset variation is minimal.
Mid-sized city with around 169 thousand residents — busy enough to keep regular international business hours, small enough to retain a regional character. (Jaffna city-proper figure.)
Related clock anchors for Jaffna: Colombo (same time), San Francisco (−12.5h), Los Angeles (−12.5h), Lagos (−4.5h), Ho Chi Minh City (+1.5h).
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 Jaffna.
City time, coordinate and population facts on this page are derived from the following authoritative datasets.
Distances from Jaffna: closest hubs Singapore (~2,791 km), Dubai (~3,131 km), Tokyo (~6,652 km); farthest indexed hub Los Angeles (~14,786 km).
Jaffna sits inside Sri Lanka — the Southern Asia subregion, capital Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte, languages Sinhala, Tamil, currency LKR (Rs රු).
Closest indexed cities to Jaffna: Colombo (304 km), Maharagama (314 km), Dehiwala-Mount Lavinia (315 km), Bengaluru (452 km).
The current curated airport set does not expose a nearby airport block for Jaffna, 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 | 11:45 AM | -4h 30m | Good to call now |
| New York | 06:45 AM | -9h 30m | Check the overlap widget below |
| Los Angeles | 03:45 AM | -12h 30m | Check the overlap widget below |
| Dubai | 02:45 PM | -1h 30m | Good to call now |
| Singapore | 06:45 PM | +2h 30m | Check the overlap widget below |
| Tokyo | 07:45 PM | +3h 30m | Check the overlap widget below |
| Sydney | 08:45 PM | +4h 30m | Check the overlap widget below |
| São Paulo | 07:45 AM | -8h 30m | Check the overlap widget below |
Jaffna is in the Asia/Colombo timezone (IST), with a UTC offset of +05:30.
Jaffna 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 Jaffna is UTC+05:30.
No. The business-hours blocks use a simple 09:00-17:00 local-time planning window for Jaffna, 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 · 16:15 GMT+5:30. Static city facts are reviewed separately and come from curated timezone, city, airport, holiday, and country-profile datasets.
Jaffna sits at 9.67°N, 80.01°E in Sri Lanka, with about 169.1K residents (rank #4 by population in this dataset).
The closest reference hub to Jaffna is Singapore, about 2,791 km away as the crow flies.
Colombo is the closest indexed city, roughly 304 km from Jaffna.
Jaffna uses Sri Lankan rupee (LKR, symbol Rs රු) as the local currency of Sri Lanka.
The longest day of 2026 in Jaffna falls on Jun 10 with about 12h 41m of daylight. The shortest is Dec 21 with 11h 33m; the year-round average is 12h 8m.
In Jaffna 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.