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
Below you can see what the time is in Nuwara Eliya, Central Province, Sri Lanka now, in the Asia/Colombo zone (+5:30).
Nuwara Eliya, Sri Lanka
Thursday, 15 October 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 5:54 AM Solar noon 11:54 AM Sunset 5:53 PM Daylight 11 h 59 min Night 12 h 01 min Civil twilight 5:33 AM – 6:14 PM
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
Sunrise time for Nuwara Eliya today is 5:54 AM; sunset time is 5:53 PM. Daylight fills 11 h 59 min.
Set your clock for Nuwara Eliya and it will also be right in Kandapola Colony and Gorandihela.
1 codes are used to address mail in Nuwara Eliya.
For Nuwara Eliya the applicable zone is Asia/Colombo, running UTC+5:30. Daylight saving time: No.
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 5:53 PM.