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9–17 in Delhi vs UTC
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About Delhi
Home to roughly 16,787,941 residents, Delhi is one of the world's largest urban centres in India. The city sits at 216 m above sea level, close to sea level, with maritime influence on its weather.
The Asia/Kolkata zone governs civic time in Delhi; this identifier is the canonical reference used by every operating system on Earth. Lying in the northern hemisphere within the subtropical belt, the city experiences a daylight pattern and seasonal arc characteristic of its latitude (28.70°).
India's currency is INR and its calling prefix is +91. Whether you need to plan a meeting, check a flight, or feed an AI agent Delhi's local time, the data on this page is delivered in both human and JSON form.
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Questions about time in Delhi
The current local time in Delhi, India is shown live at the top of this page, synchronized to atomic time to the millisecond.
Delhi uses the IANA time zone Asia/Kolkata, currently UTC+5:30.
Whether Delhi 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.
Delhi is currently 9.5 hours ahead of New York.
Delhi is currently 4.5 hours ahead of London.
Sunrise, sunset, solar noon, and civil/nautical/astronomical twilight times for Delhi are listed in the Sun section above, computed from the city's coordinates (28.7041, 77.1025).
India uses the INR currency and the +91 international dialing code.
Delhi sits at 28.7041° N, 77.1025° E, 216 m above sea level, in India.