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9–17 in Chennai vs UTC
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About Chennai
Home to roughly 4,646,732 residents, Chennai is a major metropolitan hub in India. Its terrain rests around 6 m of elevation.
The Asia/Kolkata zone governs civic time in Chennai; this identifier is the canonical reference used by every operating system on Earth. Lying in the northern hemisphere within the tropical belt, the city experiences a daylight pattern and seasonal arc characteristic of its latitude (13.08°).
Visitors will find prices listed in INR; phones reach India via the +91 country code. Beyond the live clock, every datapoint on this page — sun events, holidays, time-zone offsets — is also available as machine-readable JSON, ready for agents and integrations.
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Questions about time in Chennai
The current local time in Chennai, India is shown live at the top of this page, synchronized to atomic time to the millisecond.
Chennai uses the IANA time zone Asia/Kolkata, currently UTC+5:30.
Whether Chennai observes daylight saving time and the date of the next clock change are shown in the Timezone block above. The IANA database (Asia/Kolkata) is the source of truth.
Chennai is currently 9.5 hours ahead of New York.
Chennai is currently 4.5 hours ahead of London.
Sunrise, sunset, solar noon, and civil/nautical/astronomical twilight times for Chennai are listed in the Sun section above, computed from the city's coordinates (13.0827, 80.2707).
India uses the INR currency and the +91 international dialing code.
Chennai sits at 13.0827° N, 80.2707° E, 6 m above sea level, in India.