| 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 |
Kandy, 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 Kandy 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 Kandy 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 Kandy lines up with 09:00–13:30 in London. The time difference between Kandy 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 Kandy 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 Kandy.
Kandy (Sri Lanka) is home to roughly 130K people. Today brings about 12.1 hours of daylight: sunrise at 05:55, sunset at 17:59. This time zone stays fixed year-round at UTC+5:30 — daylight saving time is not observed. It sits in the Northern Hemisphere, about 7° north of the equator. Traffic drives on the left.
Capital
Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte
Continent
Asia
Time Zone
UTC+5:30 · Asia/Colombo
Coordinates
7.29°N, 80.64°E
Currency
LKR (Rs)
Calling Code
+94
Driving Side
Left
Hemisphere
Northern
Language
Sinhala, Tamil
Measurement System
Metric
Did You Know?
The Temple of the Tooth holds a relic said to be the Buddha's left canine, and the Esala Perahera parades it through Kandy each summer with around a hundred elephants and thousands of dancers, over ten nights. The kingdom that held it was the last part of Sri Lanka to fall to the British, in 1815.
The clock: Kandy keeps UTC+5:30. The procession's timing is set by the lunar calendar, so it moves through July and August from year to year.
Kandy lies at 80.6°E. Its time zone, UTC+5:30, is built around the 82.5°E meridian. The 1.9° gap between them means the clock runs roughly 7 minutes ahead of the sun: solar noon arrives at about 12:07 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 33m of daylight. The shortest is 22 December, with 11h 42m. The swing between them is 51 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 Kandy the sun comes up earliest on 27 May at 05:49, while the latest sunset waits until 17 July at 18:29. 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 Kandy 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 Kandy, Sri Lanka is Asia/Colombo with a current UTC offset of UTC+5:30.
Kandy has an estimated population of 130K and is located at coordinates 7.29°N, 80.64°E.
Kandy gets 12h 33m of daylight on its longest day and 11h 42m on its shortest, averaging 12h 7m a day across the year.
Solar noon in Kandy falls at about 12:07 on UTC+5:30 standard time, because the city sits 1.9° from the meridian its zone is built on.
A Tooth With Its Own Procession: The Temple of the Tooth holds a relic said to be the Buddha's left canine, and the Esala Perahera parades it through Kandy each summer with around a hundred elephants and thousands of dancers, over ten nights.