GMT to Colombo Time Converter
The United Kingdom is on summer time: BST (UTC+1) until Sun, Oct 25.
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12:00 pm12:00 GMT (UTC+0), Oct 13, 2026 = 5:30 pm17:30 SLST (UTC+5:30), Oct 13, 2026
GMT is 5 hours and 30 minutes behind Colombo.
How the time difference changes
GMT is 5 hours and 30 minutes behind Colombo year-round.
Working hours of 9:00 am to 5:00 pm in GMT correspond to 2:30 pm to 10:30 pm in Colombo.Working hours of 09:00 to 17:00 in GMT correspond to 14:30 to 22:30 in Colombo.
Compare GMT time with Colombo time, including current local time, UTC offsets, time difference, daylight saving changes, working hours, and shareable meeting times.
Time Difference
Greenwich Mean Time is 5 hours and 30 minutes behind SLST (Sri Lanka Standard Time).
12:00 pm12:00 in GMT is 5:30 pm17:30 in Colombo, Sri Lanka
GMT to Colombo call time
Best time for a conference call or a meeting is between 9am-11:30am09:00-11:30 in GMT which corresponds to 2:30pm-5pm14:30-17:00 in Colombo
12:00 pm12:00 Greenwich Mean Time (GMT). Offset UTC 0:00 hours
5:30 pm17:30 SLST (Sri Lanka Standard Time) (Colombo, Sri Lanka). Offset UTC +5:30 hours
12:00 pm12:00 GMT / 5:30 pm17:30 Colombo, Sri Lanka
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Greenwich Mean Time
Offset: GMT is the same as Greenwich Mean Time (GMT).
Countries using this time zone: Burkina Faso, Côte d'Ivoire, Britain (UK), Guernsey, Ghana, Greenland, Gambia, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Ireland, Isle of Man, Iceland, Jersey, Liberia, Mali, Mauritania, St Helena, Sierra Leone, Senegal, Sao Tome & Principe, Togo
Principal Cities: The largest city in the GMT time zone is London in the United Kingdom, with about 8.962 million people. Other major cities in this time zone include Abidjan, Bamako, Dakar, Kumasi.
Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) originally referred to the mean solar time at the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, London. It is now often used to refer to Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) when this is viewed as a time zone, and in casual use the two are the same. In the military, GMT is known as Zulu time. Greenwich Mean Time was the same as Universal Time (UT), a standard astronomical concept used in many technical fields, until the introduction of UTC in 1972.
Today the lighter areas are on UTC+1 (British Summer Time, Irish Standard Time).
GMT representations, usage and related time zones
- Z - is the zone designator for the zero UTC/GMT offset, also known as 'Zulu' time
- +00 - basic short
- +0000 - basic
- +00:00 - extended
- +0000 - sign character (+) followed by a four digit time providing hours (00) and minutes (00) of the offset. Indicates the zero UTC/GMT offset.
- Zulu - Military abbreviation for GMT
- Z - short form of 'Zulu'
- Africa/Abidjan
- Africa/Accra
- Africa/Bamako
- Africa/Banjul
- Africa/Bissau
- Africa/Conakry
- Africa/Dakar
- Africa/Freetown
- Africa/Lome
- Africa/Monrovia
- Africa/Nouakchott
- Africa/Ouagadougou
- Africa/Sao_Tome
- Africa/Timbuktu
- America/Danmarkshavn
- Atlantic/Reykjavik
- Atlantic/St_Helena
- Eire
- Etc/GMT
- Etc/GMT+0
- Etc/GMT-0
- Etc/GMT0
- Etc/Greenwich
- Europe/Belfast
- Europe/Dublin
- Europe/Guernsey
- Europe/Isle_of_Man
- Europe/Jersey
- Europe/London
- GB
- GB-Eire
- GMT
- GMT+0
- GMT-0
- GMT0
- Greenwich
- Iceland
- EGST - Eastern Greenland Summer Time
- GMT - Greenwich Mean Time
- WET - Western European Time
- AZOST - Azores Summer Time
- UTC - Coordinated Universal Time
- WT - Western Sahara Standard Time
- Z - Zulu Time Zone