New Delhi

India • India Standard Time

Time Zone

New Delhi uses India Standard Time (IST), currently running at UTC+5:30 (year-round). India does not observe daylight saving time. A single time zone — IST (UTC+5:30) — covers the entire country year-round.

Business & Commerce

New Delhi, India's capital, runs on India Standard Time (IST, UTC+5:30) — the same single time zone that covers the entire Indian subcontinent, with no daylight saving time. IST's half-hour offset from whole-hour UTC boundaries (UTC+5:30) is one of a small number of such offsets worldwide and means that scheduling with New Delhi always involves half-hour arithmetic. At UTC+5:30, New Delhi is 5.5 hours ahead of London (GMT) and 10.5 hours ahead of New York (EST) in winter. New Delhi hosts India's key government and regulatory institutions — including ministries of finance, commerce, and the Reserve Bank of India's regulatory arm — whose policy announcements have significant market impact across the region. The fixed IST offset that aligns New Delhi with Mumbai, Bangalore, and every other Indian city simplifies domestic coordination across the world's most populous country.