Nuwara EliyaSri Lanka
Current time in Nuwara Eliya, Sri Lanka
Friday, 16 October 2026
India Standard TimeUTC+05:30
⛶ Full-screen clockNuwara Eliya time at a glance
- Country
- Sri Lanka
- Location
- City in Central Province
- Time zone
Asia/Colombo- UTC offset now
UTC+05:30- Current zone label
- GMT+5:30
- Next clock change
- No upcoming change available
Time-zone identity for Nuwara Eliya
- IANA zone
Asia/Colombo- UTC offset now
- UTC+05:30
- Current zone label
- GMT+5:30
- Clock-change status
- No UTC offset change was found in the next 370 days.
Nuwara Eliya is currently 5 hours 30 minutes ahead of UTC. The named zone, rather than the offset alone, should be used for future dates.
Clock changes in Nuwara Eliya
370-day checked horizon
No UTC offset change was found through Thursday, 21 October 2027 in runtime time-zone data 2026b.
Time-zone history
UTC offset changes for Nuwara Eliya
A bounded record of offset transitions calculated for Asia/Colombo, covering 2021 through 2031. Events are offset changes; their legal or daylight-saving cause is not inferred.
Previous 5 years
No UTC offset transition was found in the previous 5 years.
Next 5 years
No UTC offset transition was found in the next 5 years.
Dates are calculated from IANA time-zone rules. The calculation checks for offset changes throughout the displayed period and resolves each change to the nearest second.
Location context
About Nuwara Eliya
Location details for Nuwara Eliya in Central Province, Sri Lanka.
- Administrative area
- Central Province, Sri Lanka
- Population
- 27,500
- Coordinates
- 6.9708° N, 80.7829° E. The elevation is 1,868 metres.
Nearby city clocks
Cities near Nuwara Eliya
Nearby cities are ordered by approximate straight-line distance from Nuwara Eliya. Times are calculated for the same instant shown above.
- HattonCentral Province, Sri Lanka22 km southwest
Asia/ColomboSame local time - GampolaCentral Province, Sri Lanka32 km northwest
Asia/ColomboSame local time - KandyCentral Province, Sri Lanka39 km northwest
Asia/ColomboSame local time - MataleCentral Province, Sri Lanka58 km north
Asia/ColomboSame local time - DambullaCentral Province, Sri Lanka100 km north
Asia/ColomboSame local time - BadullaUva Province, Sri Lanka30 km east
Asia/ColomboSame local time
Sources for Nuwara Eliya time and city facts
Time-zone calculations use runtime tzdb 2026b. Weather and astronomy sources include their own retrieval times where available.
View 3 sources
- GeoNames cities15000GeoNames · 2026-07-15_01-57-51-849 · CC BY 4.0 · AccessedCity and country names, administrative area, coordinates and population.
- IANA Time Zone DatabaseInternet Assigned Numbers Authority · 2026b · Public domain · AccessedTime-zone names, UTC offsets and clock changes.
- Unicode Common Locale Data RepositoryUnicode Consortium · 48.0 · Unicode License v3 · AccessedEnglish display names for countries, currencies and languages.