Karaiyur in numbers
- Coordinates
- 9.6533, 80.0170
- Region
- Northern Province
- Country
- Sri Lanka, Asia
- Capital
- Colombo — 303 km away
- Same name
- 7 more places in the world share this name
What time is it in Karaiyur, Northern Province, Sri Lanka
Find out what time it is now in Karaiyur, Northern Province, Sri Lanka — the local clock runs on Asia/Colombo (+5:30).
Karaiyur, Sri Lanka
Monday, 9 November 2026
UTC+5:30 · Asia/Colombo
Local time in Karaiyur
UTC+5:30 · no daylight saving time
What the clock shows right now in Karaiyur.
The sun today
Sunrise 6:03 AM Solar noon 11:55 AM Sunset 5:47 PM Daylight 11 h 44 min Night 12 h 16 min Civil twilight 5:41 AM – 6:09 PM
Weather in Karaiyur right now
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Karaiyur and its neighbours
Postal codes
- 40000 Jaffna — 2.0 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
Other places named Karaiyur
- Karaiyūr Kerala, India
- Karaiyur Kerala, India
- Kāraiyūr Tamil Nadu, India
- Kāraiyūr Tamil Nadu, India
- Kāraiyūr Tamil Nadu, India
Same time zone — Asia/Colombo
- Colombo Sri Lanka
Nearby places
- Small Bazaar — 0.6 km
- Eachchamoddai — 1.3 km
- Jaffna Division — 1.5 km
- Fort — 1.6 km
- Vannarpannai South East — 1.6 km
- Chundikkuli — 1.6 km
Local time details for Karaiyur
Nearby places like Small Bazaar and Eachchamoddai are on Karaiyur time.
Every address in Karaiyur sits within one of 1 postal code.
Karaiyur observes Asia/Colombo time, currently expressed as UTC+5:30. Daylight saving time here: No.
At Karaiyur the sun clears the horizon at 6:03 AM and sinks again at 5:47 PM. The gap between them is 11 h 44 min.
Questions and answers
- Is Asia/Colombo the time zone for Karaiyur?
- Yes, Asia/Colombo is the time zone for Karaiyur, with an offset of +5:30.
- Is there a daylight saving adjustment to the time in Karaiyur?
- No.
- When does the sun disappear in Karaiyur?
- It disappears at 5:47 PM.