Kurunegala in numbers
- Coordinates
- 7.4839, 80.3683
- Population
- 28 571
- Region
- North Western Province
- Country
- Sri Lanka, Asia
- Capital
- Colombo — 84 km away
What time is it in Kurunegala, North Western Province, Sri Lanka
Learn the current time in Kurunegala, North Western Province, Sri Lanka, a place in the Asia/Colombo time zone (+5:30).
Kurunegala, Sri Lanka
Friday, 6 November 2026
UTC+5:30 · Asia/Colombo
Local time in Kurunegala
UTC+5:30 · no daylight saving time
What the clock shows right now in Kurunegala.
The sun today
Sunrise 5:58 AM Solar noon 11:53 AM Sunset 5:48 PM Daylight 11 h 50 min Night 12 h 10 min Civil twilight 5:37 AM – 6:10 PM
Weather in Kurunegala right now
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Kurunegala and its neighbours
Postal codes
- 60000
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
- Chilaw 24 712
- Kuliyapitiya 6 877
Same time zone — Asia/Colombo
- Colombo Sri Lanka
Nearby places
- Kahandawelipota — 5.7 km
- Kadurugahamadditta — 6.0 km
- Idangapola — 7.7 km
- Kadurudena — 7.7 km
- Ihala Nakolagamuwa — 7.7 km
- Ihalawela — 9.4 km
Local time details for Kurunegala
Local clocks in Kurunegala follow the Asia/Colombo zone, UTC+5:30. Do they shift for daylight saving? No.
Daylight in Kurunegala today runs from 5:58 AM to 5:48 PM. The stretch measures 11 h 50 min.
Nearby Kahandawelipota and Kadurugahamadditta need no separate clock from Kurunegala.
Postal coverage of Kurunegala comes to 1 codes.
Questions and answers
- Which local time zone does Kurunegala follow?
- Kurunegala follows Asia/Colombo, with an offset of +5:30.
- Is daylight saving time in force in Kurunegala?
- Daylight saving in Kurunegala: No.
- At what hour does the sun set in Kurunegala?
- At 5:48 PM.