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GMT to IST converter

IST is 5.5 hours ahead of GMT right now. Live clocks on both sides, a direct time input, the full 24-hour table with a permalink per hour, and the real daylight-saving state — computed from the IANA tz database on every request, never from a stored offset.

Greenwich Mean Time · Etc/GMT
23:23:37
Wednesday, 12 August 2026 · GMT · UTC+00:00
India Standard Time · Asia/Kolkata
04:53:37
Thursday, 13 August 2026 · IST · UTC+05:30

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Daylight saving right now

India Standard Time

Asia/Kolkata is currently on IST (UTC+05:30).

no clock change scheduled — this zone is fixed at UTC+05:30

India Standard Time is UTC+5:30 all year — no daylight saving, and a half-hour offset that trips up naive converters. One clock covers the whole country. Note IST is also Irish Standard Time and Israel Standard Time.

Greenwich Mean Time

Etc/GMT is on GMT (UTC+00:00).

no clock change scheduled — fixed at UTC+00:00

GMT is UTC+0 and never shifts. The UK observes GMT in winter only — in summer it is on BST (UTC+1), so "GMT" on a British invite dated in July usually means BST.

Best time to call green = 09:00–18:00 on both sides

4 overlapping working hours. The longest run is 09:00–13:00 GMT, which is 14:30–18:30 IST.

GMT to IST, hour by hour 12 August 2026 · every row is a permalink

GMT IST 12-hour Day Permalink
00:00 05:30 IST 5:30 AM same day 00:00 →
01:00 06:30 IST 6:30 AM same day 01:00 →
02:00 07:30 IST 7:30 AM same day 02:00 →
03:00 08:30 IST 8:30 AM same day 03:00 →
04:00 09:30 IST 9:30 AM same day 04:00 →
05:00 10:30 IST 10:30 AM same day 05:00 →
06:00 11:30 IST 11:30 AM same day 06:00 →
07:00 12:30 IST 12:30 PM same day 07:00 →
08:00 13:30 IST 1:30 PM same day 08:00 →
09:00 14:30 IST 2:30 PM same day 09:00 →
10:00 15:30 IST 3:30 PM same day 10:00 →
11:00 16:30 IST 4:30 PM same day 11:00 →
12:00 17:30 IST 5:30 PM same day 12:00 →
13:00 18:30 IST 6:30 PM same day 13:00 →
14:00 19:30 IST 7:30 PM same day 14:00 →
15:00 20:30 IST 8:30 PM same day 15:00 →
16:00 21:30 IST 9:30 PM same day 16:00 →
17:00 22:30 IST 10:30 PM same day 17:00 →
18:00 23:30 IST 11:30 PM same day 18:00 →
19:00 00:30 IST 12:30 AM next day 19:00 →
20:00 01:30 IST 1:30 AM next day 20:00 →
21:00 02:30 IST 2:30 AM next day 21:00 →
22:00 03:30 IST 3:30 AM next day 22:00 →
23:00 04:30 IST 4:30 AM next day 23:00 →

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GMT to IST — questions

What time is it in IST when it is GMT now?
IST is currently 04:53 on Thursday, 13 August 2026 (IST, UTC+05:30), while GMT is 23:23 (UTC+00:00). That is 5.5 hours ahead of the source clock right now.
How many hours ahead is IST of GMT?
5.5 hours at this moment. The gap is not constant across the year: Greenwich Mean Time and India Standard Time change clocks on different dates (or one of them not at all), so a difference you hard-code in summer can be an hour wrong in winter. The table on this page is computed from the current tzdata rules, not from a fixed offset.
Is IST on daylight saving time right now?
No. Asia/Kolkata is on IST (UTC+05:30) at the moment.
Does IST observe daylight saving time?
No. Asia/Kolkata stays on UTC+05:30 all year, so the difference from GMT only moves when GMT itself changes.
What is the best time to schedule a call between GMT and IST?
There are 4 hours of overlap where both sides are inside a 09:00-18:00 working day. The longest block is 09:00–13:00 GMT, which is 14:30–18:30 IST. Use the calendar buttons above to drop it straight into Google Calendar, Outlook or an .ics file.
Which IANA timezone name should I use for IST in code?
Use Asia/Kolkata. Abbreviations like IST are ambiguous and not resolvable by most libraries — Python's ZoneInfo, Java's ZoneId, Go's time.LoadLocation and JavaScript's Intl all expect the IANA name. Hard-coding UTC+05:30 instead will be wrong the moment the rules change.

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