Mahalakotuwa in numbers
- Coordinates
- 7.5357, 80.7554
- Region
- Central Province
- Country
- Sri Lanka, Asia
- Capital
- Colombo — 120 km away
What time is it in Mahalakotuwa, Central Province, Sri Lanka
The current local time in Mahalakotuwa, Central Province, Sri Lanka — time zone Asia/Colombo (+5:30) — is shown right here.
Mahalakotuwa, Sri Lanka
Monday, 9 November 2026
UTC+5:30 · Asia/Colombo
Local time in Mahalakotuwa
UTC+5:30 · no daylight saving time
What the clock shows right now in Mahalakotuwa.
The sun today
Sunrise 5:58 AM Solar noon 11:52 AM Sunset 5:46 PM Daylight 11 h 49 min Night 12 h 11 min Civil twilight 5:36 AM – 6:08 PM
Weather in Mahalakotuwa right now
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Mahalakotuwa and its neighbours
Postal codes
- 21032 Dankanda — 6.3 km away
- 21068 Gammaduwa — 7.5 km away
- 22012 Patana — 8.3 km away
- 21400 Rattota — 8.5 km away
- 21402 Etanawala — 8.5 km away
- 21404 Gangala Puwakpitiya — 8.5 km away
- 21406 lllukkumbura — 8.5 km away
- 21408 Welangahawatte — 8.5 km away
- 21064 Imbulgolla — 10.2 km away
- 21062 Metihakka — 10.7 km away
- 21066 Kaikawala — 11.3 km away
- 21076 Opalgala — 13.1 km away
Postal codes come from the free GeoNames dataset. Where a code is listed with a distance, it belongs to a nearby settlement — GeoNames spells that name differently from ours.
Largest cities in Central Province
Same time zone — Asia/Colombo
- Colombo Sri Lanka
Nearby places
- Illukkumbura — 2.1 km
- Hemagahahena — 6.4 km
- Gonewala — 6.8 km
- Kalupana — 7.8 km
- Halminiya — 8.8 km
- Hunukete — 8.9 km
About the time in Mahalakotuwa
Mail addressed to Mahalakotuwa uses 12 postal codes.
Mahalakotuwa is served by the Asia/Colombo time zone, offset UTC+5:30. Daylight saving time applies: No.
The sun is up at 5:58 AM in Mahalakotuwa and down again at 5:46 PM. Between those times there are 11 h 49 min of daylight.
The same local time applies in Mahalakotuwa, Illukkumbura and Hemagahahena.
Questions and answers
- Should Asia/Colombo be used as the time zone for Mahalakotuwa?
- Yes, Mahalakotuwa uses Asia/Colombo, whose offset is +5:30.
- Is there a daylight saving time change in Mahalakotuwa?
- Daylight saving in Mahalakotuwa: No.
- When does morning light reach Mahalakotuwa?
- At 5:58 AM.