Echchankulam in numbers
- Coordinates
- 8.8528, 80.4177
- Region
- Northern Province
- Country
- Sri Lanka, Asia
- Capital
- Colombo — 222 km away
What time is it in Echchankulam, Northern Province, Sri Lanka
Below is the local time in Echchankulam, Northern Province, Sri Lanka, kept in the Asia/Colombo zone (+5:30).
Echchankulam, Sri Lanka
Sunday, 1 November 2026
UTC+5:30 · Asia/Colombo
Local time in Echchankulam
UTC+5:30 · no daylight saving time
What the clock shows right now in Echchankulam.
The sun today
Sunrise 5:59 AM Solar noon 11:53 AM Sunset 5:47 PM Daylight 11 h 49 min Night 12 h 11 min Civil twilight 5:37 AM – 6:09 PM
Weather in Echchankulam right now
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Echchankulam and its neighbours
Postal codes
- 43000 Vavuniya — 14.3 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 Northern Province
- Jaffna 169 102
- Point Pedro 89 810
- Valvedditturai 78 205
- Vavuniya 60 176
- Mannar 35 817
- Mullaittivu 28 973
Same time zone — Asia/Colombo
- Colombo Sri Lanka
Nearby places
- Periya Ulukkulama — 19.6 km
- Kalukundamaduwa — 20.2 km
- Kalukunnammaduwa Kagy — 20.3 km
- Nochchikulam — 20.6 km
- Kalukunnammaduwa — 20.7 km
- Ulukkulama — 20.8 km
Local time details for Echchankulam
Periya Ulukkulama and Kalukundamaduwa, both nearby, hold the same time as Echchankulam.
Postal codes assigned across Echchankulam total 1.
Echchankulam reads its time from Asia/Colombo, placed at UTC+5:30. Whether daylight saving time is observed: No.
In Echchankulam today the sun is out from 5:59 AM until 5:47 PM. That comes to 11 h 49 min of daylight.
Questions and answers
- Which time zone is observed in Echchankulam?
- Echchankulam observes the Asia/Colombo time zone, with an offset of +5:30.
- Should I expect a daylight saving change in Echchankulam?
- No.
- Both sunrise and sunset in Echchankulam — what times?
- 5:59 AM and 5:47 PM.