What time is it in British Indian Ocean Territory?

British Indian Ocean Territory stays on UTC+6:00 all year. Its offset from UTC never moves, so its relationship to places that do change shifts twice a year instead — which is usually why someone checks. Right now it is 6 hours ahead of UTC, and 11 hours ahead of New York.

Chagos is 11 hours ahead of New York and 14 hours ahead of Los Angeles. 9am in New York is 8:00 pm in Chagos.

To convert a specific time rather than read the current one, the converter shows both directions with the next clock change for each.

The day is 12 hours 26 minutes long in Chagos, and holding steady — within a minute of yesterday’s. The sun peaks at 12:54 pm, 54 minutes after noon on the clock. A UTC offset is a promise that the sun is overhead at midday on one meridian, and Chagos sits 70 minutes of solar time west of UTC+6:00’s. The rest is the equation of time, which swings about a quarter of an hour either way across the year.

Chagos lies inside the tropics, so the sun passes directly overhead at noon twice a year — around March 2 and October 12 in 2026, when a vertical object casts almost no shadow. Nowhere outside the tropics ever sees that. The longest day is 12 hours 33 minutes and the shortest 11 hours 42 minutes, 51 minutes apart.

British Indian Ocean Territory has kept UTC+6:00 since Monday, January 1, 1996, when it moved from UTC+5:00. Before that its clocks read 1 hour behind what they read now.

On UTC+6:00 right now, the same clock as British Indian Ocean Territory: