Nuwara Eliya in numbers
- Coordinates
- 6.9708, 80.7829
- Population
- 27 500
- Region
- Central Province
- Country
- Sri Lanka, Asia
- Capital
- Colombo — 103 km away
What time is it in Nuwara Eliya, Central Province, Sri Lanka
This is the current time in Nuwara Eliya, Central Province, Sri Lanka, shown for the Asia/Colombo time zone (+5:30).
Nuwara Eliya, Sri Lanka
Friday, 4 September 2026
UTC+5:30 · Asia/Colombo
Local time in Nuwara Eliya
UTC+5:30 · no daylight saving time
What the clock shows right now in Nuwara Eliya.
The sun today
Sunrise 06:00 Solar noon 12:07 Sunset 18:14 Daylight 12 h 14 min Night 11 h 46 min Civil twilight 05:39 – 18:35
Weather in Nuwara Eliya right now
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Nuwara Eliya and its neighbours
Postal codes
- 22200
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
- Kandapola Colony — 3.9 km
- Gorandihela — 6.6 km
- Hakgala — 7.6 km
- Kabilladowa — 9.5 km
- Harakgamakanda — 9.8 km
- Hangunnawa — 10.2 km
Time and daylight in Nuwara Eliya
Nuwara Eliya is served by a set of 1 postal code.
For Nuwara Eliya the applicable zone is Asia/Colombo, running UTC+5:30. Daylight saving time: No.
Nuwara Eliya sees the sun rise at 06:00 and set at 18:14 today. Daylight runs for 12 h 14 min.
Time in Kandapola Colony and Kabilladowa, both close to Nuwara Eliya, runs the same.
Questions and answers
- Which zone should be used to show the time in Nuwara Eliya?
- Use Asia/Colombo to show the time in Nuwara Eliya; its offset is +5:30.
- Is the time in Nuwara Eliya adjusted seasonally?
- No.
- Can you tell me the sunset time in Nuwara Eliya?
- In Nuwara Eliya the sun sets at 18:14.