Bangalore Time Now

What this page shows

So you want to know what time it is in Bangalore right now. Maybe you have a call with a team there, a flight to catch, a match kicking off on local time, or someone to reach before their evening is over. That is what the clock at the top of this page is for. It shows the current time in Bangalore and ticks forward every second, so there is nothing for you to work out by hand.

Wherever in the world you are reading this from, the clock tracks Bangalore and keeps itself right on its own. And Bangalore time is simple, because it never changes through the year, as the next section explains.

Bangalore does not change its clocks

Here is the part worth knowing about Bangalore time, and it makes things easy. India does not use daylight saving. There is no spring forward and no fall back, so Bangalore stays on the same clock all year round, India Standard Time, five and a half hours ahead of UTC.

So there are no change dates to track here. Whenever you look, Bangalore is at UTC plus 5:30, and the clock above simply shows that time. The half-hour offset is the part that catches people out, especially when coordinating across the world, but it never shifts with the seasons.

What time zone Bangalore is in

Bangalore runs on India Standard Time, five and a half hours ahead of UTC, held every day of the year. It keeps the same clock as the rest of India, since the whole country runs on this single zone.

As the heart of India's technology industry, Bangalore does a great deal of business across time zones, and the half-hour offset becomes a familiar quirk. Most of the world counts the gap to other countries in whole hours, but a team in Bangalore working with New York or London is always dealing with an extra thirty minutes. What sounds like a tidy ten-hour gap to the US East Coast is really ten and a half, or nine and a half in the American summer. Once you are used to it, the half hour is second nature, but it is the thing that surprises people new to working with India.

Time difference from Bangalore to other cities

Bangalore never changes its clocks, so the gap to other fixed-offset places stays the same all year. The places that do use daylight saving, like London and New York, shift by an hour against Bangalore between their winter and summer. Here is the quick reference, assuming it is 12 noon in Bangalore.

A few quick examples

Let us run a few, so you can see how this works.

Say it is 12 noon in Bangalore. Kathmandu is fifteen minutes ahead at 12:15, and Singapore is two and a half hours ahead at 2:30 in the afternoon. Dubai is an hour and a half behind at 10:30 in the morning.

Now the long hauls west, the ones that matter most for the city's tech teams. In the winter, London is five and a half hours behind Bangalore, so 12 noon here is half past six in the morning in London, and New York, ten and a half hours behind, is at half past one in the morning. The half-hour offset is why these land on a thirty rather than on the hour.

Because those places use daylight saving and India does not, the gap shifts by an hour in their summer. London moves to four and a half hours behind and New York to nine and a half. So for a call that has to land just right, check the live clock rather than the rule of thumb.

A couple of things about Bangalore time

Bangalore sits well to the south, at about 13 degrees north, near the tropics, so the length of the day stays fairly even through the year. Around midsummer there are roughly twelve and three quarter hours between sunrise and sunset, and around midwinter still about eleven and a quarter, a gentle swing with no long evenings or short afternoons to speak of.

On the clock-against-sun question, Bangalore runs a little behind the sun. India Standard Time is built on a meridian near the centre of the country, and Bangalore sits some way west of it, so the sun reaches its highest a little after 12 noon by the clock, at around twenty past twelve in the middle of the year. It is a modest lean, and a steady one, since the clock never shifts.

Other places on the same time

The whole of India keeps the same time as Bangalore on UTC plus 5:30. Here are some to jump to:

• Mumbai time now, on the same clock
• New Delhi time now, on the same clock
• India time now, the country as a whole

And if it is the global reference Bangalore is measured from that you are after, see UTC Time Now.

Questions people ask

What time is it in Bangalore right now?

The clock near the top of this page is the answer, and it updates every second. India does not use daylight saving, so Bangalore stays on the same time all year, and the time shown is always correct.

Does Bangalore change its clocks for daylight saving?

No. India does not use daylight saving anywhere, so Bangalore keeps India Standard Time, UTC plus 5:30, all year with no seasonal change.

What is the real time difference between Bangalore and New York?

Ten and a half hours, with New York behind, in the northern winter, narrowing to nine and a half in the American summer. The half hour comes from India's UTC plus 5:30 offset.

What time zone is Bangalore in?

India Standard Time, five and a half hours ahead of UTC, held all year. It is the single clock used across the whole of India.

What is the time difference between Bangalore and London?

London is normally five and a half hours behind Bangalore, or four and a half when London is on summer time. The gap shifts because London uses daylight saving and India does not.

What is the IANA name for Bangalore time?

It is Asia/Kolkata in the IANA time zone database, the time data your phone and your computer use. That single identifier covers the whole country at UTC plus 5:30, and it is what drives the live clock on this page.

References

1. Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA). Time Zone Database (the tz database), home of the Asia/Kolkata identifier used across India. https://www.iana.org/time-zones
2. CSIR-National Physical Laboratory (CSIR-NPL), India, which keeps and disseminates Indian Standard Time. https://www.nplindia.org
3. Bureau International des Poids et Mesures (BIPM), Time Department, which maintains Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), the reference India Standard Time is measured from. https://www.bipm.org/en/work-programme/time