| CITY | LOCAL TIME | Difference | Coming up |
|---|---|---|---|
| London United Kingdom | 01:00 | −4:30 | Becomes −5:30 on 25 Oct |
| Berlin Germany | 02:00 | −3:30 | Becomes −4:30 on 25 Oct |
| Dubai UAE | 04:00 | −1:30 | |
| Tokyo Japan | 09:00 | +3:30 | |
| Sydney Australia | 10:00 | +4:30 | Becomes +5:30 on 4 Oct |
| New York United States | 20:00Wed | −9:30 | Becomes −10:30 on 1 Nov |
| Los Angeles United States | 17:00Wed | −12:30 | Becomes −13:30 on 1 Nov |
Galle, Sri Lanka runs on UTC+5:30. This time zone stays fixed year-round at UTC+5:30 — daylight saving time is not observed. The time difference between Galle and New York is 9 hours and 30 minutes. Standard working hours don't overlap at all with New York, so meetings need an early or late slot on one side. The time difference between Galle and London is 4 hours and 30 minutes. Standard 9-to-6 working hours overlap for about 4 hours and 30 minutes a day with London. A good time to connect: 13:30–18:00 in Galle lines up with 09:00–13:30 in London. The time difference between Galle and Tokyo is 3 hours and 30 minutes. Standard 9-to-6 working hours overlap for about 5 hours and 30 minutes a day with Tokyo. A good time to connect: 09:00–14:30 in Galle lines up with 12:30–18:00 in Tokyo. This timezone is also shared with cities such as Mumbai, Delhi, Bangalore. Keeping these offsets in mind makes it easier to schedule calls or travel to and from Galle.
Galle (Sri Lanka) is home to roughly 100K people. Today brings about 12.1 hours of daylight: sunrise at 05:57, sunset at 18:01. This time zone stays fixed year-round at UTC+5:30 — daylight saving time is not observed. It sits in the Northern Hemisphere, about 6° north of the equator. Traffic drives on the left.
Capital
Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte
Continent
Asia
Time Zone
UTC+5:30 · Asia/Colombo
Coordinates
6.05°N, 80.22°E
Currency
LKR (Rs)
Calling Code
+94
Driving Side
Left
Hemisphere
Northern
Language
Sinhala, Tamil
Measurement System
Metric
Did You Know?
Galle's ramparts, built by the Portuguese and rebuilt by the Dutch from 1663, absorbed much of the 2004 tsunami and largely protected the old town inside while the area around it was devastated.
The clock: Galle keeps UTC+5:30. Its stilt fishermen, perched on poles in the surf, use a method that only began around the Second World War.
Galle lies at 80.2°E. Its time zone, UTC+5:30, is built around the 82.5°E meridian. The 2.3° gap between them means the clock runs roughly 9 minutes ahead of the sun: solar noon arrives at about 12:09 rather than 12:00. The zone holds UTC+5:30 all year — there is no daylight saving here.
The longest day of 2026 is 22 June, with 12h 28m of daylight. The shortest is 22 December, with 11h 46m. The swing between them is 42 minutes. Within a few degrees of the equator the length of the day barely moves all year.
The earliest sunrise and the latest sunset do not land on the longest day. In Galle the sun comes up earliest on 25 May at 05:53, while the latest sunset waits until 19 July at 18:28. The equation of time is what separates them: the Earth's elliptical orbit and axial tilt move solar noon back and forth by several minutes over the year.
The sky stays usably light for a while after the sun goes down. In Galle that civil twilight runs about 21 minutes at the equinox.
Every figure in this section is computed from the city's own latitude, longitude and IANA time zone using NOAA solar algorithms (Spencer, 1971), accurate to about ±2 arcminutes below 65° latitude.
The official timezone for Galle, Sri Lanka is Asia/Colombo with a current UTC offset of UTC+5:30.
Galle has an estimated population of 100K and is located at coordinates 6.05°N, 80.22°E.
Galle gets 12h 28m of daylight on its longest day and 11h 46m on its shortest, averaging 12h 7m a day across the year.
Solar noon in Galle falls at about 12:09 on UTC+5:30 standard time, because the city sits 2.3° from the meridian its zone is built on.
A Dutch Fort That Broke a Tsunami: Galle's ramparts, built by the Portuguese and rebuilt by the Dutch from 1663, absorbed much of the 2004 tsunami and largely protected the old town inside while the area around it was devastated.