Time in New Delhi Now — Current Local Time. New Delhi is on UTC+05:30 right now — New Delhi stays on UTC+05:30 all year — it does not observe daylight saving, so its offset from UTC never changes. The current local time, date and daylight saving status are shown live by the world clock, which is worked out from the IANA time zone database (Asia/Kolkata), not from a printed table.
Try the tool: World Clock — see the current time in New Delhi and 99 other cities, side by side, with each city's UTC offset.
What time is it in New Delhi now?
The world clock shows the current time in New Delhi live — the time, the date and the day of the week — updated every second from your device's clock and the IANA time zone database. It is the time in the Asia/Kolkata zone, which covers New Delhi and the surrounding region. The clock does not use a fixed offset: it asks the database what the offset is on today's date, so it is right whether daylight saving is in effect or not. That matters more than it sounds, because New Delhi's offset never changes, which is one reason the time in New Delhi is easy to remember.
If you need the time in New Delhi for a meeting or a flight, use the live clock rather than a remembered offset. The remembered offset is right most of the year and wrong for a few weeks — the weeks when New Delhi is on the same time it is always on, while the place you are calling from has just changed its clocks. The time zone converter handles the date as well as the cities, so it is right on the awkward dates too.
New Delhi's UTC offset
New Delhi stays on UTC+05:30 all year — it does not observe daylight saving, so its offset from UTC never changes.
| Period | Offset | In effect |
|---|---|---|
| All year | UTC+05:30 | The offset never changes |
| Right now (11 November 2026) | UTC+05:30 | The offset never changes |
The offset is the whole story for conversions. To get the time in New Delhi from UTC, add the offset: when it is 12:00 UTC, it is 17:30 in New Delhi in January and 17:30 in July. To go the other way, subtract it. The UTC converter does the arithmetic for any hour, and the UTC to New Delhi page has the full 24-hour conversion table for this city.
Daylight saving in New Delhi
New Delhi does not observe daylight saving time, and its offset never changes. India has never observed daylight saving in the modern era. The country uses a single time zone, and in most of India the difference between summer and winter day length is small. That makes New Delhi one of the easiest cities in the world to schedule with: the time difference between New Delhi and anywhere else only changes when the other place changes its clocks. The New Delhi DST 2026 page explains the history, and the daylight saving checker confirms the status for any zone.
New Delhi working hours in other cities
The table below converts New Delhi's working day — 09:00 to 17:00 local time — into the time in four reference points: UTC, New York, London and Tokyo. It is the table to use when you are working out whether someone in New Delhi is at their desk.
January (northern winter) — when it is the time in the first column in New Delhi, it is the time shown in each other city.
| Time in New Delhi | UTC | New York | London | Tokyo |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 09:00 | 03:30 | 22:30 | 03:30 | 12:30 |
| 12:00 | 06:30 | 01:30 | 06:30 | 15:30 |
| 15:00 | 09:30 | 04:30 | 09:30 | 18:30 |
| 17:00 | 11:30 | 06:30 | 11:30 | 20:30 |
July (northern summer) — when it is the time in the first column in New Delhi, it is the time shown in each other city.
| Time in New Delhi | UTC | New York | London | Tokyo |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 09:00 | 03:30 | 23:30 | 04:30 | 12:30 |
| 12:00 | 06:30 | 02:30 | 07:30 | 15:30 |
| 15:00 | 09:30 | 05:30 | 10:30 | 18:30 |
| 17:00 | 11:30 | 07:30 | 12:30 | 20:30 |
Read the table from left to right: find the time in New Delhi, then read across to see what time it is in each other city. If the January and July tables differ, the difference is daylight saving — one or more of the cities has changed its clocks between the two dates. The meeting planner does the same conversion for any two cities and any date, and the meeting time finder finds the hours when everyone is available.
Best time to call New Delhi
The best windows to call New Delhi — the hours when New Delhi is in its working day and New York, London and Tokyo are most likely to be awake — are 13:00–24:00 New Delhi time, 00:00–04:00 New Delhi time (January, when the offsets are as shown in the table above). These are the hours when at least two of the three hubs are between 07:00 and 22:00 local time, so the call is inside the working day in New Delhi and at a reasonable hour for the other side. Outside these windows, the call is either before the working day in New Delhi or in the middle of the night somewhere else.
As a rule of thumb, the kindest time to call New Delhi from the United States is late morning in New York, which is the afternoon or evening in New Delhi for most of the world east of the Atlantic — and the kindest time from Europe is mid-morning in London, which is late morning or afternoon in New Delhi for most of Asia. The worst time to call is the hour that is 03:00 somewhere: check the tables above before you dial.
About New Delhi and its time zone
New Delhi is on India Standard Time, UTC+05:30 — one offset for the whole of India, a country that spans nearly 30 degrees of longitude. India has never observed daylight saving in the modern era, so the offset never changes, and the time in Delhi is the time in every Indian city, from Gujarat to Assam.
New Delhi is in the Asia region, and its IANA time zone is Asia/Kolkata. That name is the identifier computers use: when your phone, your calendar or this website works out the time in New Delhi, it looks up Asia/Kolkata in the IANA Time Zone Database and applies the rules for that zone on the date you asked about. The rules include the standard offset, the daylight saving dates and the whole history of changes — which is why the answer is right even for dates in the past, when the rules were different.
The practical consequence is that the time in New Delhi is not a fixed number. It is a single number, all year, which is the simplest case in time-zone work. The time in New Delhi is UTC+05:30 on every day of the year, and the only thing that changes is the time in the place you are calling from. The time zone list shows every zone in the database with its current offset, and the guides explain how the system works.
New Delhi compared with the world's major cities
When it is 12:00 in New Delhi, it is:
| City | January | July |
|---|---|---|
| New York | 01:30 | 02:30 |
| London | 06:30 | 07:30 |
| Paris | 07:30 | 08:30 |
| Dubai | 10:30 | 10:30 |
| Mumbai | 12:00 | 12:00 |
| Singapore | 14:30 | 14:30 |
| Tokyo | 15:30 | 15:30 |
| Sydney | 17:30 | 16:30 |
The January and July columns differ wherever one of the cities observes daylight saving and the other does not, or where they change their clocks on different dates. For the full comparison with the cities people ask about most, see New York to New Delhi time, New Delhi to New York time, London to New Delhi time.
How to convert New Delhi time
Three worked examples, all for January, when New Delhi is on UTC+05:30: 09:00 in New Delhi is 03:30 UTC, 03:30 in London and 22:30 in New York. 12:00 in New Delhi is 06:30 UTC and 15:30 in Tokyo. 17:00 in New Delhi — the end of the working day — is 11:30 UTC and 06:30 in New York. In July, when New Delhi is on UTC+05:30, add or subtract the difference between the two offsets — there is none, because the offset does not change — from each of those answers.
Frequently asked questions
What time is it in New Delhi right now?
The world clock shows the current time in New Delhi live, with the date and the day of the week. It is worked out from the IANA time zone database (Asia/Kolkata), so it is right whether daylight saving is in effect or not.
What is New Delhi's UTC offset?
New Delhi is on UTC+05:30 in standard time, all year. Right now (11 November 2026) it is on UTC+05:30.
Does New Delhi observe daylight saving time?
No. New Delhi does not observe daylight saving, so its offset of UTC+05:30 never changes. See the New Delhi DST 2026 page for the full explanation.
What is the time difference between New Delhi and London?
In January, New Delhi is 5 hours 30 minutes ahead London; in July it is 4 hours 30 minutes ahead London. The difference changes with daylight saving.
What is the time difference between New Delhi and New York?
In January, New Delhi is 10 hours 30 minutes ahead New York; in July it is 9 hours 30 minutes ahead New York. See New York to New Delhi time for the full comparison.
What time zone is New Delhi in?
New Delhi is in the IANA time zone Asia/Kolkata, in India. The zone's standard offset is UTC+05:30, and it does not observe daylight saving.
Sources
- IANA Time Zone Database, via Node.js Intl (
Intl.DateTimeFormatwithtimeZone) — offsets, daylight saving dates and local times in this article were worked out from the IANA database, not typed from memory. - TimeFlow's own time-zone data (
data/cities.ts,data/dst.ts), computed from the IANA database. - TimeFlow's world clock and time zone converter — the live tools behind the numbers on this page.
- Time-zone and daylight saving rules are set by governments and can change. For flights, deadlines and meetings that cannot move, confirm the time with an official source.