Local time in India
Republic of India
Current local time in India (IST (UTC+5:30)). The clock below updates live in your browser.
Time difference — New Delhi
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Differences are relative to New Delhi, India, and account for daylight saving time right now.
Time zone information for India
- Standard label
- IST (UTC+5:30)
- Standard offset (New Delhi)
- UTC+5:30
- Daylight saving time
- Not observed
- Number of time zones
- 1
- Capital
- New Delhi
- IANA zones
- Asia/Kolkata
India uses IST (UTC+5:30) as its standard time. Clocks stay on the same offset all year round — daylight saving time is not observed. Times on this page are computed in your browser from the IANA time zone database, so they always match the real current time in India.
Sunrise and sunset in New Delhi
At 28.6° north, New Delhi gets 13 h 58 min of daylight around the June solstice but only 10 h 19 min around the December solstice — a difference of 3 h 39 min.
| Date | Sunrise | Solar noon | Sunset | Daylight |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 21 January | 07:15 | 12:33 | 17:51 | 10 h 37 min |
| 21 February | 06:56 | 12:36 | 18:16 | 11 h 20 min |
| 21 March | 06:25 | 12:29 | 18:33 | 12 h 08 min |
| 21 April | 05:51 | 12:21 | 18:50 | 13 h 00 min |
| 21 May | 05:28 | 12:19 | 19:09 | 13 h 40 min |
| 21 June | 05:25 | 12:24 | 19:23 | 13 h 58 min |
| 21 July | 05:37 | 12:28 | 19:19 | 13 h 43 min |
| 21 August | 05:54 | 12:25 | 18:57 | 13 h 02 min |
| 21 September | 06:10 | 12:15 | 18:21 | 12 h 11 min |
| 21 October | 06:26 | 12:07 | 17:47 | 11 h 21 min |
| 21 November | 06:49 | 12:08 | 17:27 | 10 h 37 min |
| 21 December | 07:10 | 12:20 | 17:29 | 10 h 19 min |
Calculated for New Delhi (28.61°, 77.21°; coordinates from Wikidata) with the standard solar-position formulas used by NOAA, for a sea-level horizon. Results are accurate to about a minute; hills, buildings and altitude shift what you actually see. Times change by only a minute or two from year to year.
Daylight saving time in India
India does not change its clocks: it stays on IST (UTC+5:30) all year in 2026 and 2027.
Dates come from the IANA time zone database as bundled at build time. Governments occasionally change their rules at short notice.