Indexed entity
Maharagama is the maharagama-LK record in Sri Lanka: country slug sri-lanka, city slug maharagama, ISO LK, continent Asia, canonical IANA zone Asia/Colombo.
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Live local time
Maharagama, Sri Lanka
04:17:29 PMTuesday, June 2, 2026 · Asia/Colombo
Quick answer
It is currently 04:17:29 PM (IST, UTC+05:30) in Maharagama, Sri Lanka — Business hours.
Pronunciation
Updated 8 days ago
Right now
29°C
Drizzle
3-day forecast
Tue
29°C
25°C
100% rain
Wed
28°C
25°C
100% rain
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 Maharagama, not permanent claims; verify legal, travel, market, or compliance decisions with official local sources.
Live values rendered at Jun 2, 10:47 AM UTC.
Current local time
04:17:29 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 Maharagama right now
Nearest airport
No nearby airport
No indexed airport link is currently mapped near Maharagama
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 Maharagama, Sri Lanka.
Snapshot Jun 2, 2026 · 16:17 GMT+5:30
2 reference cities are overlapping now
Maharagama 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
11:47 AM / -4h 30m
Dubai
02:47 PM / -1h 30m
Schedule risk
No upcoming country holiday signal in view
Travel cue
Dehiwala-Mount Lavinia, 6 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
6.85°N, 79.93°E
Use these reference hubs as a first-pass call plan before opening a full meeting planner.
London
11:47 AM / -4h 30m
Good live-call window with Maharagama right now.
New York
06:47 AM / -9h 30m
Use as a follow-up or async handoff, not an immediate-call default.
Los Angeles
03:47 AM / -12h 30m
Use as a follow-up or async handoff, not an immediate-call default.
Dubai
02:47 PM / -1h 30m
Good live-call window with Maharagama right now.
Singapore
06:47 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 Maharagama.
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 Maharagama right now.
Check local interruptions
No upcoming country holiday signal in view. Nearest mapped context: Dehiwala-Mount Lavinia, 6 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
Maharagama 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 Maharagama.
Canonical route
/time/sri-lanka/maharagama/
Catalog identity
maharagama-LK · LK · Asia
Coordinate cell
6.85°N, 79.93°E · lat 6.848 · lon 79.927 · cell 685:7993
Population record
195,355 residents · country rank 3
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 · 6 km
Nearest world hub
Singapore · 2,718 km
Closest airport references
No curated airport link is mapped directly to Maharagama
Zone peer roster
Colombo, Sri Lanka · Dehiwala-Mount Lavinia, Sri Lanka · Jaffna, Sri Lanka
The page below keeps the timezone answer attached to the real local record for Maharagama: country facts, coordinate bands, nearby-city distances, airport references, and current calendar signals.
Maharagama is the maharagama-LK record in Sri Lanka: country slug sri-lanka, city slug maharagama, ISO LK, continent Asia, canonical IANA zone Asia/Colombo.
6.85°N, 79.93°E; Northern Hemisphere, Eastern Hemisphere; rounded latitude band 6 and longitude band 79; exact decimal pair 6.84800, 79.92650.
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 Maharagama 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, 6 km]; Colombo [colombo-LK, LK, Asia/Colombo, 13 km]; Jaffna [jaffna-LK, LK, Asia/Colombo, 314 km]; Bengaluru [bengaluru-IN, IN, Asia/Kolkata, 727 km]; Male [male-MV, MV, Indian/Maldives, 770 km]; Hyderabad [hyderabad-IN, IN, Asia/Kolkata, 1182 km]; Mumbai [mumbai-IN, IN, Asia/Kolkata, 1558 km]; Khulna [khulna-BD, BD, Asia/Dhaka, 2053 km]
Maharagama 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 2,718 km; Dubai 3,321 km; Tokyo 6,846 km; London 8,724 km; Sydney 8,737 km; São Paulo 14,026 km; New York 14,093 km; Los Angeles 15,081 km
Maharagama has no nearby curated airport reference in the indexed airport snapshot for Sri Lanka.
Maharagama renders Jun 2, 2026 · 16:17 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 Maharagama.
Maharagama is a context-and-reference city; rank #3 of 4 retained Sri Lanka city pages. The route is /time/sri-lanka/maharagama/ and the city id is maharagama-LK.
Maharagama 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.
Maharagama is pinned at 6.85°N, 79.93°E; Dehiwala-Mount Lavinia (6 km); Singapore (2,718 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.
Maharagama 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.
Maharagama 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.
Maharagama: Maharagama is an outer suburb of Colombo, Sri Lanka on the High-Level (A4) Road about 10 km (6.2 mi) from the centre of the commercial capital. It developed rapidly in the 1980s as a dormitory suburb. Governed by the Maharagama Urban Council, the town possesses facilities like supermarkets, department stores, clothing, food and beverages shops to fulfill the needs of citizens.
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.
Maharagama 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 79.93°, Maharagama'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 8 (12h 31m)
Shortest day
Dec 18 (11h 43m)
Year-round average
12h 7m
Annual swing
0h 48m
See the full daylight curve for Maharagama at /sun/maharagama/.
Each row projects a hub's 09:00-17:00 local working day into Maharagama local time so a glance reveals when each market is reachable from this city.
| Hub | IANA zone | Window in Maharagama |
|---|---|---|
| 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 Maharagama's city id, coordinates, timezone, country profile, nearby cities, airport links, holidays, weather, and related event/market context.
Snapshot at render time: 04:17:29 PM on Tuesday, June 2, 2026 in Maharagama (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 Maharagama local time, with sunrise/sunset and DST stats per page.
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Population
195.4K
Coordinates
6.85, 79.93
Timezone
Asia/Colombo
Indexed airports
0
Capital
Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte
Languages
Sinhala, Tamil
Currency
LKR (Rs රු)
Country area
65,610 km²
Maharagama, Sri Lanka (population rank #3 in this dataset). Time zone: Asia/Colombo (IST, UTC+05:30); population ~195.4K.
Coordinates: 6.85°N, 79.93°E. Northern Hemisphere deep tropics, ~760 km from the equator.
Today the sun rises around 05:53 AM and sets around 06:23 PM in Maharagama — about 12h 30m of daylight. Sri Lanka stays on standard time here, so UTC+05:30 is stable through the year.
Dehiwala-Mount Lavinia (6 km from Maharagama) gives this page its nearest mapped city context, with no airport pages currently indexed for Sri Lanka.
Maharagama 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/maharagama/.
Location context: 6.85°N, 79.93°E; population 195,355; nearest indexed city Dehiwala-Mount Lavinia is about 6 km away; closest reference hub is Singapore, about 2,718 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.
Maharagama 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 79.93°, Maharagama'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.
Maharagama sits at 6.85°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 195 thousand residents — busy enough to keep regular international business hours, small enough to retain a regional character. (Maharagama city-proper figure.)
Related clock anchors for Maharagama: Colombo (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 Maharagama.
City time, coordinate and population facts on this page are derived from the following authoritative datasets.
Distances from Maharagama: closest hubs Singapore (~2,718 km), Dubai (~3,321 km), Tokyo (~6,846 km); farthest indexed hub Los Angeles (~15,081 km).
Maharagama sits inside Sri Lanka — the Southern Asia subregion, capital Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte, languages Sinhala, Tamil, currency LKR (Rs රු).
Closest indexed cities to Maharagama: Dehiwala-Mount Lavinia (6 km), Colombo (13 km), Jaffna (314 km), Bengaluru (727 km).
The current curated airport set does not expose a nearby airport block for Maharagama, 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 | 11:47 AM | -4h 30m | Good to call now |
| New York | 06:47 AM | -9h 30m | Check the overlap widget below |
| Los Angeles | 03:47 AM | -12h 30m | Check the overlap widget below |
| Dubai | 02:47 PM | -1h 30m | Good to call now |
| Singapore | 06:47 PM | +2h 30m | Check the overlap widget below |
| Tokyo | 07:47 PM | +3h 30m | Check the overlap widget below |
| Sydney | 08:47 PM | +4h 30m | Check the overlap widget below |
| São Paulo | 07:47 AM | -8h 30m | Check the overlap widget below |
Maharagama is in the Asia/Colombo timezone (IST), with a UTC offset of +05:30.
Maharagama 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 Maharagama is UTC+05:30.
No. The business-hours blocks use a simple 09:00-17:00 local-time planning window for Maharagama, 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 · 16:17 GMT+5:30. Static city facts are reviewed separately and come from curated timezone, city, airport, holiday, and country-profile datasets.
Maharagama sits at 6.85°N, 79.93°E in Sri Lanka, with about 195.4K residents (rank #3 by population in this dataset).
The closest reference hub to Maharagama is Singapore, about 2,718 km away as the crow flies.
Dehiwala-Mount Lavinia is the closest indexed city, roughly 6 km from Maharagama.
Maharagama uses Sri Lankan rupee (LKR, symbol Rs රු) as the local currency of Sri Lanka.
The longest day of 2026 in Maharagama falls on Jun 8 with about 12h 31m of daylight. The shortest is Dec 18 with 11h 43m; the year-round average is 12h 7m.
In Maharagama 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.