Jaffna, Sri Lanka
Current time in Sri Lanka
Time zone: +0530 (UTC/GMT +05:30) — Asia/Colombo
| Local Clock Offset: Yesterday, -2.5 H |
| Time zone: (UTC/GMT +5.5 ) Jaffna, Sri Lanka |
Current Time in other Cities of Sri Lanka
Jaffna time zone and UTC offset
Local time here is +0530, which sits 5 hours 30 minutes ahead of UTC, written UTC+05:30. The canonical zone name is Asia/Colombo, and that is what to pick from a time zone dropdown.
No seasonal adjustment applies in Jaffna — UTC+05:30 is constant, which is worth remembering when a partner city moves its clocks twice a year.
Around 169,102 people live in Jaffna, making it the 4th largest of the 11 Sri Lanka cities covered here.
Jaffna compared with major world cities
Read this as: relative to each city below, Jaffna is the stated amount ahead or behind, right now.
| New York | UTC-04:00 | Jaffna is 9 hours 30 minutes ahead |
| Los Angeles | UTC-07:00 | Jaffna is 12 hours 30 minutes ahead |
| London | UTC+01:00 | Jaffna is 4 hours 30 minutes ahead |
| Paris | UTC+02:00 | Jaffna is 3 hours 30 minutes ahead |
| Dubai | UTC+04:00 | Jaffna is 1 hour 30 minutes ahead |
| Mumbai | UTC+05:30 | same time as Jaffna |
| Shanghai | UTC+08:00 | Jaffna is 2 hours 30 minutes behind |
| Tokyo | UTC+09:00 | Jaffna is 3 hours 30 minutes behind |
| Sydney | UTC+10:00 | Jaffna is 4 hours 30 minutes behind |
| Sao Paulo | UTC-03:00 | Jaffna is 8 hours 30 minutes ahead |
Working hours that match Jaffna
Overlap of a normal working day, shown in Jaffna time — outside these windows one side is off the clock.
| Mumbai | 09:00–17:00 in Jaffna | 8 hours overlap |
| Dubai | 10:30–17:00 in Jaffna | 6.5 hours overlap |
| Shanghai | 09:00–14:30 in Jaffna | 5.5 hours overlap |
| Paris | 12:30–17:00 in Jaffna | 4.5 hours overlap |
No shared working window exists with New York, Los Angeles or Sao Paulo, so those calls have to sit outside somebody's normal hours.
Sharing Jaffna's time zone
Same zone, same time — each of these sits on Asia/Colombo alongside Jaffna, including through any clock change.
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