Timetate
A world clock on a live 3D globe, turned to Colombo.
Sri Lanka · GMT+5:30
Colombo runs on GMT+5:30. Add 5 hours 30 minutes to Coordinated Universal Time to get the current time in Colombo.
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24h schedule
Sunrise
05:37
Sunset
18:14
Colombo is located in Sri Lanka and uses the Asia/Colombo timezone, currently GMT+5:30 from UTC. Colombo does not observe daylight saving time. Sunrise is at 05:37 and sunset at 18:14 local time. The coordinates of Colombo are 6.93°N, 79.86°E.
Today Colombo gets 12 hours 37 minutes of daylight. Solar noon — when the sun is highest — falls at 11:56, almost exactly when the clock says midday.
Right now Colombo shares its GMT+5:30 offset with Kolkata, Mumbai, Delhi, Bangalore, Chennai, Hyderabad. Clocks in these places read the same, even where the calendar date differs.
Offices in Colombo work Monday to Friday, typically 08:30–17:00 local time. Lunch is usually 12:30–13:30, and a meeting proposed inside it will be moved. The city's economy runs on apparel, tea export, IT and BPO and port and logistics, which is who you are most likely to be calling. Every full-moon Poya day is a public holiday, roughly one a month, which surprises calendars planned from abroad.
The dates that most often break a cross-border schedule are Sinhala and Tamil New Year (13–14 April), Vesak (the May full moon, two days), Independence Day (4 February) and Christmas (25 December). Expect slow replies during the April New Year week.
| From | Gap | Call at (Colombo time) |
|---|---|---|
| 🇮🇳 Chennai | same time | 09:30–17:30 |
| 🇮🇳 Nagpur | same time | 09:30–17:30 |
| 🇮🇳 Lucknow | same time | 09:30–17:30 |
| 🇮🇳 Hyderabad | same time | 09:30–17:30 |
| 🇬🇧 London | −5h 30m | 14:30–17:30 |
| 🇺🇸 New York | −9h 30m | 16:30–20:30 (early or late for one side) |
| 🇸🇬 Singapore | +2h 30m | 09:30–14:30 |
| 🇦🇪 Dubai | −1h 30m | 10:30–17:30 |
Office hours taken as 09:00–17:00 on both sides. A row opens the meeting page for the two cities where one exists, otherwise the converter.
Colombo is in the Asia/Colombo timezone, currently GMT+5:30.
No. Colombo does not observe daylight saving time. The UTC offset is always GMT+5:30.
Colombo is currently GMT+5:30 from UTC (GMT+5:30).
Right now Colombo is 5.5 hours ahead of London and 9.5 hours ahead of New York. The gaps move by an hour when either side changes its clocks.
09:00 in Colombo is 03:30 UTC today, because the city is GMT+5:30 from UTC.
Colombo keeps GMT+5:30, one of the zones that sit between the whole hours. India, Iran, Afghanistan, Myanmar, Nepal and parts of Australia all do; the offset was chosen to match local solar time or a single national zone rather than the nearest whole hour. Convert with the minutes included, or the answer is thirty minutes off.
Today the sun rises in Colombo at 05:37 and sets at 18:14 local time. These times were calculated when this page was built and drift by a few minutes a week.
Times on this page were calculated on .