Chilaw in numbers
- Coordinates
- 7.5758, 79.7953
- Population
- 24 712
- Region
- North Western Province
- Country
- Sri Lanka, Asia
- Capital
- Colombo — 71 km away
What time is it in Chilaw, North Western Province, Sri Lanka
Learn the current time in Chilaw, North Western Province, Sri Lanka, a place in the Asia/Colombo time zone (+5:30).
Chilaw, Sri Lanka
Thursday, 5 November 2026
UTC+5:30 · Asia/Colombo
Local time in Chilaw
UTC+5:30 · no daylight saving time
What the clock shows right now in Chilaw.
The sun today
Sunrise 6:01 AM Solar noon 11:56 AM Sunset 5:51 PM Daylight 11 h 50 min Night 12 h 10 min Civil twilight 5:39 AM – 6:12 PM
Weather in Chilaw right now
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Chilaw and its neighbours
Postal codes
- 61000
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 North Western Province
- Puttalam 45 661
- Kurunegala 28 571
- Kuliyapitiya 6 877
Same time zone — Asia/Colombo
- Colombo Sri Lanka
Nearby places
- Ichchampitiya — 1.0 km
- Akkarayankotuwa — 1.6 km
- Ilippadeniya — 3.9 km
- Amakuliya — 4.2 km
- Inginiwatta — 4.8 km
- Ambakandavila — 5.1 km
About the time in Chilaw
Chilaw is mapped by 1 postal code.
Chilaw carries the Asia/Colombo zone, offset UTC+5:30. Whether daylight saving time is applied: No.
Sunrise comes to Chilaw at 6:01 AM and sunset at 5:51 PM today. Together that makes 11 h 50 min of light.
Anyone in Ichchampitiya or Akkarayankotuwa reads the same clock as Chilaw.
Questions and answers
- What time zone is the clock in Chilaw based on?
- The clock in Chilaw is based on Asia/Colombo, with an offset of +5:30.
- Does Chilaw use summer time?
- No.
- When does light leave Chilaw?
- Light leaves at 5:51 PM.