What time is it in India?

India stays on UTC+5:30 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 5 hours 30 minutes ahead of UTC, and 10 hours 30 minutes ahead of New York.

New Delhi is 10 hours 30 minutes ahead of New York and 13 hours 30 minutes ahead of Los Angeles. 9am in New York is 7:30 pm in New Delhi.

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 11 hours 6 minutes long in New Delhi, and losing 1 minute a day. The sun peaks at 11:20 am, 40 minutes before noon on the clock. A UTC offset is a promise that the sun is overhead at midday on one meridian, and New Delhi sits 23 minutes of solar time east of UTC+5:30’s. The rest is the equation of time, which swings about a quarter of an hour either way across the year.

New Delhi lies inside the tropics, so the sun passes directly overhead at noon twice a year — around June 5 and July 7 in 2026, when a vertical object casts almost no shadow. Nowhere outside the tropics ever sees that. The longest day is 13 hours 31 minutes and the shortest 10 hours 45 minutes, 166 minutes apart.

India’s offset has not moved once since 1970 — no daylight saving, and no change of zone.

On UTC+5:30 right now, the same clock as India: