Periyapalam in numbers
- Coordinates
- 8.4424, 81.2551
- Region
- Eastern Province
- Country
- Sri Lanka, Asia
- Capital
- Colombo — 228 km away
What time is it in Periyapalam, Eastern Province, Sri Lanka
The clock for Periyapalam, Eastern Province, Sri Lanka is kept here in the Asia/Colombo time zone (+5:30).
Periyapalam, Sri Lanka
Wednesday, 28 October 2026
UTC+5:30 · Asia/Colombo
Local time in Periyapalam
UTC+5:30 · no daylight saving time
Periyapalam keeps Asia/Colombo clock_time.
The sun today
Sunrise 5:54 AM Solar noon 11:50 AM Sunset 5:45 PM Daylight 11 h 51 min Night 12 h 09 min Civil twilight 5:33 AM – 6:07 PM
Weather in Periyapalam right now
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Periyapalam and its neighbours
Postal codes
- 31200 Mutur — 1.5 km away
- 31212 Kaddaiparichchan — 3.2 km away
- 31220 Kiliveddy — 3.6 km away
- 31260 Seruwila — 3.6 km away
- 31238 Mawadichenai — 3.6 km away
- 31236 Echchilampattai — 3.6 km away
- 31234 Lankapatuna — 3.6 km away
- 31232 Serunuwara — 3.6 km away
- 31228 Neelapola — 3.6 km away
- 31226 Dehiwatte — 3.6 km away
- 31224 Mallikativu — 3.6 km away
- 31222 Somapura — 3.6 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 Eastern Province
- Trincomalee 108 420
- Kalmunai 100 171
- Batticaloa 86 742
- Pottuvil 45 727
- Ampara 43 720
- Eravur Town 22 982
Same time zone — Asia/Colombo
- Colombo Sri Lanka
Nearby places
- Shafinagar — 2.3 km
- Muthur — 3.8 km
- Iruthayapuram — 4.5 km
- Pachchanur — 4.9 km
- Manatchenai — 4.9 km
- Malligaithivu — 5.5 km
About the time in Periyapalam
Every address in Periyapalam sits within one of 12 postal codes.
Periyapalam reads its time from Asia/Colombo, placed at UTC+5:30. Whether daylight saving time is observed: No.
Today the day starts in Periyapalam at 5:54 AM with sunrise and ends at 5:45 PM with sunset. Daylight lasts 11 h 51 min.
Shafinagar and Muthur sit nearby and do not run ahead of or behind Periyapalam.
Questions and answers
- Which time zone is observed in Periyapalam?
- Periyapalam observes the Asia/Colombo time zone, with an offset of +5:30.
- Do clocks change in Periyapalam during the year?
- Daylight saving in Periyapalam: No.
- When is the sun down in Periyapalam?
- The sun goes down at 5:45 PM.