What time is it in Sri Lanka?

Sri Lanka stays on UTC+5:30 all year. Its offset from UTC never moves, so its relationship to places that do change shifts twice a year instead — which is usually why someone checks. Right now it is 5 hours 30 minutes ahead of UTC, and 10 hours 30 minutes ahead of New York.

Colombo is 10 hours 30 minutes ahead of New York and 13 hours 30 minutes ahead of Los Angeles. 9am in New York is 7:30 pm in Colombo.

To convert a specific time rather than read the current one, the converter shows both directions with the next clock change for each.

The day is 11 hours 49 minutes long in Colombo, and holding steady — within a minute of yesterday’s. The sun peaks within a few minutes of twelve o’clock, so Sri Lanka’s offset fits its longitude about as closely as a whole-hour offset can.

Colombo lies inside the tropics, so the sun passes directly overhead at noon twice a year — around April 7 and September 5 in 2026, when a vertical object casts almost no shadow. Nowhere outside the tropics ever sees that. The longest day is 12 hours 32 minutes and the shortest 11 hours 43 minutes, 48 minutes apart.

Sri Lanka has kept UTC+5:30 since Saturday, April 15, 2006, when it moved from UTC+6:00. Before that its clocks read 30 minutes ahead of what they read now.

On UTC+5:30 right now, the same clock as Sri Lanka: