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9–17 in Colombo vs UTC
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- ඊදුල් අල්හා (හජ්ජි උත්සව දිනය)28 May 2026
- අධි පොසොන් පුර පසළොස්වක පෝය දිනය30 May 2026
- පොසොන් පුර පසළොස්වක පෝය දිනය29 Jun 2026
- ඇසළ පුර පසළොස්වක පෝය දිනය29 Jul 2026
- මිලාද්-උන්-නබි (නබි නායකතුමාගේ උපන් දිනය)26 Aug 2026
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About Colombo
Home to roughly 752,993 residents, Colombo is a substantial regional city in Sri Lanka. The city sits at 1 m above sea level, close to sea level, with maritime influence on its weather.
For computers and clocks, Colombo is anchored to the Asia/Colombo time zone, which encodes the city's daylight saving rules going back to the early 20th century. Sun behaviour here follows the equatorial pattern of the northern hemisphere, with the steepest seasonal day-length swings around the equinoxes.
Beyond the live clock, every datapoint on this page — sun events, holidays, time-zone offsets — is also available as machine-readable JSON, ready for agents and integrations.
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Questions about time in Colombo
The current local time in Colombo, Sri Lanka is shown live at the top of this page, synchronized to atomic time to the millisecond.
Colombo uses the IANA time zone Asia/Colombo, currently UTC+5:30.
Whether Colombo observes daylight saving time and the date of the next clock change are shown in the Timezone block above. The IANA database (Asia/Colombo) is the source of truth.
Colombo is currently 9.5 hours ahead of New York.
Colombo is currently 4.5 hours ahead of London.
Sunrise, sunset, solar noon, and civil/nautical/astronomical twilight times for Colombo are listed in the Sun section above, computed from the city's coordinates (6.9271, 79.8612).
Currency and dialing-code information is not available for this entry.
Colombo sits at 6.9271° N, 79.8612° E, 1 m above sea level, in Sri Lanka.