Time in India now
4:32PMIST
ISTUTC+5:30+10 h 30 min vs New York (you)Asia/Kolkata
No clock changes: India stays on IST (UTC+5:30) all year.
Time zone in India
India uses a single time zone: India Standard Time (IST, UTC+5:30) all year. Every clock in the country shows the same time.
Its offset, UTC+5:30, is not a whole number of hours, so the minutes differ too when you compare India with most of the world. Only 2 of the 312 zones in the database use UTC+5:30 at any time of year.
New Delhi lies at 77.2° east, where mean solar time is UTC+5:09 (four minutes per degree of longitude). The clocks run 21 min ahead of the sun, so on average the sun is highest at about 12:21 PM.
Daylight saving time in India
No. India has not used daylight saving time since 1942 (it did between 1941 and 1942, according to tzdata’s historical records), and the clocks stay on IST (UTC+5:30) all year.
Clock history of India
The record begins with local mean time (clocks set by the sun, UTC+5:53 in Kolkata), which ended on June 27, 1854, when HMT (UTC+5:53) replaced it. There has been no daylight saving time since 1970; the last summer clock change in the record was in 1942 (the first was in 1941). The table summarises the clocks of India year by year since 1970, from the tzdata entry Asia/Kolkata.
| Years | Clocks | Abbreviations |
|---|---|---|
| 1970 onward | UTC+5:30 all year | IST |
Rows from 2027 on follow the rules in tzdata 2026f; a government decision would change them in the next release.
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Time difference between India and major cities
| City | Local time now | India vs city now | January | July | Office overlap Jan / Jul |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 6:02 AM Tue, Nov 3 | +10 h 30 min | +10 h 30 min | +9 h 30 min | none / none |
| Los Angeles | 3:02 AM Tue, Nov 3 | +13 h 30 min | +13 h 30 min | +12 h 30 min | none / none |
| London | 11:02 AM Tue, Nov 3 | +5 h 30 min | +5 h 30 min | +4 h 30 min | 2 h 30 min / 3 h 30 min |
| Berlin | 12:02 PM Tue, Nov 3 | +4 h 30 min | +4 h 30 min | +3 h 30 min | 3 h 30 min / 4 h 30 min |
| Dubai | 3:02 PM Tue, Nov 3 | +1 h 30 min | +1 h 30 min | +1 h 30 min | 6 h 30 min / 6 h 30 min |
| Singapore | 7:02 PM Tue, Nov 3 | −2 h 30 min | −2 h 30 min | −2 h 30 min | 5 h 30 min / 5 h 30 min |
| Beijing | 7:02 PM Tue, Nov 3 | −2 h 30 min | −2 h 30 min | −2 h 30 min | 5 h 30 min / 5 h 30 min |
| Tokyo | 8:02 PM Tue, Nov 3 | −3 h 30 min | −3 h 30 min | −3 h 30 min | 4 h 30 min / 4 h 30 min |
| Sydney | 10:02 PM Tue, Nov 3 | −5 h 30 min | −5 h 30 min | −4 h 30 min | 2 h 30 min / 3 h 30 min |
Office hours and calls
With JavaScript on, this line shows how India’s office hours overlap yours today.
India and New York share no office hours: when offices open at 9:00 AM in India, it is 10:30 PM the day before in New York. A call has to be early or late for one side: 6:30 PM in India is 8:00 AM in New York.
A 9-to-5 day in India overlaps London’s for 2 h 30 min in January (2:30 PM–5:00 PM India time), 3 h 30 min in July. At 9:00 AM in India it is 3:30 AM in London.
Software follows CLDR, the locale data used by phones and computers, which lists only Sunday as the weekend in India; calendars and scheduling tools may therefore count Saturday as a working day.
Neighbouring time zones
The nearest large cities on a different clock, with the straight-line distance from New Delhi and the difference now.
| City | Distance | Time now | Their clock vs here |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lahore Pakistan | 430 km | 4:02 PM PKT | −0 h 30 min |
| Kathmandu Nepal | 800 km | 4:47 PM UTC+5:45 | +0 h 15 min |
| Kabul Afghanistan | 1,010 km | 3:32 PM UTC+4:30 | −1 h |
| Thimphu Bhutan | 1,230 km | 5:02 PM UTC+6 | +0 h 30 min |
| Mashhad Iran | 1,860 km | 2:32 PM UTC+3:30 | −2 h |
| Muscat Oman | 1,960 km | 3:02 PM UTC+4 | −1 h 30 min |
Same clock as India
These places keep exactly the same time as India all year under the current rules (zones Asia/Colombo).
Cities in India
- Mumbai
- Delhi
- Bengaluru
- Hyderabad
- Ahmedabad
- Chennai
- Kolkata
- Surat
- Pune
- Jaipur
- Kanpur
- Navi Mumbai
- Lucknow
- Nagpur
- Coimbatore
- Indore
- Thāne
- Vadodara
- Bhopal
- Rasapūdipalem
- Pimpri-Chinchwad
- Patna
- Kallakurichi
- Ludhiana
- Nashik
- Madurai
- Tirunelveli
- Agra
- Faridabad
- Rājkot
- Najafgarh
- Jamshedpur
- Pimpri
- Kalyān
- Dombivali
- Meerut
- Virār
- Nowrangapur
- Srinagar
- Ghāziābād
- Dhanbad
- Aurangabad
- Varanasi
- Amritsar
- Vijayawada
- Ranchi
- Jabalpur
- Prayagraj
India at a glance
- CapitalNew Delhi
- Population1,463,865,525
- Time zone IDAsia/Kolkata
- Standard timeIST (UTC+5:30)
- Daylight saving timenone
- Calling code+91