Time-zone spread
India is modeled as a single-zone country on this page, so the main planning risk is not internal time spread but coordination with DST-observing countries elsewhere.
Largest indexed cluster: Asia/Kolkata · 4 cities.
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Country time hub
India has 1 time zone.
Last updated recently. Country-level time references, currency snapshots, nearby airports, and next-holiday context refresh on the daily page update window.
What time is it in India
It's currently 3:30 PM GMT+5:30 in India, which is UTC+05:30. India does not observe daylight saving time.
Primary timezone
Asia/Kolkata
Indexed cities
4
Next holiday
Muharram
June 26, 2026
Airport pages
2
Operational country read
This page is classified as a compact country time hub. It combines city coverage, time-zone spread, holiday signals, airport links, and reference-market overlap so users can decide whether to open a city page, a meeting planner, or a travel page next.
Time-zone spread
India is modeled as a single-zone country on this page, so the main planning risk is not internal time spread but coordination with DST-observing countries elsewhere.
Largest indexed cluster: Asia/Kolkata · 4 cities.
Reference-market overlap
India overlaps 2 of 8 reference markets right now. Use those rows for live calls and treat the remaining markets as async handoffs.
Snapshot uses 8 reference market clocks against Asia/Kolkata.
Planning next step
India has an airport-country page, so travel planning can move from national time context into arrival-city and airport-zone details.
Country evidence
Practical use cases
Trust boundaries
Updated 2026-05-22 · ECB rates
Code
Indian Rupee
1 USD = 95.7 INR
Quick conversions
These blocks make the country hub useful for real planning in India, not just as a timezone index.
India pages need stronger festival context because Diwali, Holi, Eid, and other observances shape when people are actually available.
India is one of the highest-intent time markets for SaaS, outsourcing, engineering, and customer-support teams.
India also benefits from prayer-time and daily-rhythm context because different communities follow visibly different schedules across the day and year.
India is the world's most populous nation with roughly 1.43 billion residents (overtaking China in 2023) and a GDP near 3.9 trillion USD, ranking fifth globally. The country observes Indian Standard Time (IST, UTC+5:30) year-round with no DST — an unusual half-hour offset adopted in 1947 and applied uniformly across the subcontinent, despite a 28-degree east-west span that makes sunset in Arunachal Pradesh nearly two hours earlier than in Gujarat. India is a federal parliamentary republic with 28 states and 8 union territories, and the world's largest democracy by electorate (~970 million voters in 2024). Its capital markets — the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) and National Stock Exchange (NSE) — form the fourth-largest equity market globally by market cap (~5 trillion USD). Hindi and English are official Union languages alongside 22 scheduled languages, and UPI now processes more than 12 billion transactions monthly.
Sources
Last verified 2026-05-23 (manual).
Capital
New Delhi
Population
1,417,492,000
Area
3,287,263 km²
Languages
English, Hindi, Tamil
Currencies
INR
Indexed cities
4
Indexed airports
2
Next public holiday
June 26, 2026
India is one of the country intelligence hubs in WorldClockTools, so this page combines live timezone structure, major city clocks, holidays, airports, and same-day planning signals instead of stopping at a flat country index.
India currently spans 1 curated timezone. It sits in the Southern Asia subregion. The wider region is Asia.
Tue, Jun 2
Bengaluru
03:30 PM
Asia/Kolkata
Tue, Jun 2
Delhi
03:30 PM
Asia/Kolkata
Tue, Jun 2
Hyderabad
03:30 PM
Asia/Kolkata
Tue, Jun 2
Mumbai
03:30 PM
Asia/Kolkata
Exchange snapshot
Currency snapshot unavailable
| Reference market | Current local time | Difference | Business-hours overlap |
|---|---|---|---|
| London | 11:00 AM | -4h 30m | Good to call now |
| New York | 06:00 AM | -9h 30m | Plan around office hours |
| Los Angeles | 03:00 AM | -12h 30m | Plan around office hours |
| Dubai | 02:00 PM | -1h 30m | Good to call now |
| Singapore | 06:00 PM | +2h 30m | Plan around office hours |
| Tokyo | 07:00 PM | +3h 30m | Plan around office hours |
| Sydney | 08:00 PM | +4h 30m | Plan around office hours |
| São Paulo | 07:00 AM | -8h 30m | Plan around office hours |
Public-disclosure tracker
Sabarimala 9-Judge Constitutional Bench Verdict
Father's Day (US) 2026
50th Anniversary of Emergency Declaration (Samvidhan Hatya Diwas)
Puri Ratha Yatra 2026
Reference fields include India: ISO code, canonical slug, timezone roster, indexed cities, airport rows, next holiday, currency/language hints, reference-market overlap, and country-specific planning text.
Country time hubs work best when they connect to the deeper city, airport, compare, and market route families.
Public holidays in India
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Airports in India
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Market hours
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Browse city pages
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