Sri Lanka · IANA Asia/Colombo
Asia/Colombo is the time zone record for Sri Lanka. The current offset is UTC+05:30, and the local wall clock is 1:01 AM on Fri. Use this page to confirm the live time, the underlying IANA identifier, nearby cities, and whether daylight saving can move the offset later in the year.
UTC offset
UTC+05:30
Local date
2026-06-19
DST status
Abolished
Asia/Colombo is an IANA time zone identifier, which means it describes a real set of civil-time rules rather than just a fixed UTC offset. That distinction matters for scheduling: the offset shown today is UTC+05:30, but zones with seasonal clock changes can move by one hour when daylight saving starts or ends. Calendar apps, flight systems, and meeting schedulers should store Asia/Colombo instead of a bare offset so future events follow the local rule.
Asia/Colombo is still a valid IANA time zone even though Zeitful does not yet have a curated city attached to it. Use the identifier directly in scheduling tools and calendar exports. The zone is most useful when you need to answer practical questions such as whether a colleague is inside business hours, how a release time appears locally, or which offset to use in a cron schedule. On Zeitful, Asia/Colombo pages combine the live clock with city context and DST notes so you do not have to jump between a map, a converter, and a legal time-change table.
Sri Lanka is marked abolished in the 2026 DST tracker. Formerly observed DST; no current DST. For one-off conversions, today's offset is enough. For recurring meetings, payroll deadlines, transport bookings, or product launches, use the IANA zone name and let tzdata calculate each future date. That is the safest way to handle places where the January and July offsets differ.
No curated city records are attached to Asia/Colombo yet. The time zone page still resolves from IANA tzdata and can be compared in the converter.
Sri Lanka is marked abolished in the 2026 DST tracker. Formerly observed DST; no current DST.