Timetate
A world clock on a live 3D globe, turned to Chennai.
India · GMT+5:30
Chennai runs on GMT+5:30. Add 5 hours 30 minutes to Coordinated Universal Time to get the current time in Chennai.
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24h schedule
Sunrise
05:40
Sunset
18:08
Chennai is located in India and uses the Asia/Kolkata timezone, currently GMT+5:30 from UTC. Chennai does not observe daylight saving time. Sunrise is at 05:40 and sunset at 18:08 local time. The coordinates of Chennai are 13.08°N, 80.27°E.
Today Chennai gets 12 hours 28 minutes of daylight. Solar noon — when the sun is highest — falls at 11:54, almost exactly when the clock says midday.
Right now Chennai shares its GMT+5:30 offset with Kolkata, Mumbai, Delhi, Bangalore, Hyderabad, Colombo. Clocks in these places read the same, even where the calendar date differs.
| From | Gap | Call at (Chennai time) |
|---|---|---|
| 🇱🇰 Colombo | same time | 09:30–17:30 |
| 🇮🇳 Lucknow | same time | 09:30–17:30 |
| 🇮🇳 Nagpur | same time | 09:30–17:30 |
| 🇮🇳 Hyderabad | same time | 09:30–17:30 |
| 🇬🇧 London | −5h 30m | 14:30–17:30 |
| 🇺🇸 New York | −9h 30m | 16:30–20:30 (early or late for one side) |
| 🇸🇬 Singapore | +2h 30m | 09:30–14:30 |
| 🇦🇪 Dubai | −1h 30m | 10:30–17:30 |
Office hours taken as 09:00–17:00 on both sides. A row opens the meeting page for the two cities where one exists, otherwise the converter.
Chennai is in the Asia/Kolkata timezone, currently GMT+5:30.
No. Chennai does not observe daylight saving time. The UTC offset is always GMT+5:30.
Chennai is currently GMT+5:30 from UTC (GMT+5:30).
Right now Chennai is 5.5 hours ahead of London and 9.5 hours ahead of New York. The gaps move by an hour when either side changes its clocks.
09:00 in Chennai is 03:30 UTC today, because the city is GMT+5:30 from UTC.
Chennai keeps GMT+5:30, one of the zones that sit between the whole hours. India, Iran, Afghanistan, Myanmar, Nepal and parts of Australia all do; the offset was chosen to match local solar time or a single national zone rather than the nearest whole hour. Convert with the minutes included, or the answer is thirty minutes off.
Today the sun rises in Chennai at 05:40 and sets at 18:08 local time. These times were calculated when this page was built and drift by a few minutes a week.
Times on this page were calculated on .