Current Time in Amritsar, India
Time and Sun Facts for Amritsar
- Local time
- 3:16 am
- Date
- Sunday, 25 October 2026
- Time zone
Asia/Kolkata- UTC offset
- UTC+5:30
- Daylight saving
- Not observed here — the offset is the same all year
- Sunrise
- 6:40 am
- Sunset
- 5:49 pm
- Day length
- 11 hours 9 minutes
- Coordinates
- 31.63, 74.87
How Amritsar Keeps Time
Amritsar keeps IST, UTC+5:30. The live clock normally synchronizes to the site time source and then applies the IANA rules for Amritsar; until synchronization succeeds, it uses the device clock as a fallback. Daylight-saving changes are applied only where that zone actually observes them.
Amritsar runs on the Asia/Kolkata zone in the IANA time zone database, which is UTC+5:30 right now. There is no daylight saving here, so that offset holds all year and the difference to other places only changes when they move their own clocks.
Amritsar is one of the places that sits 30 minutes off the hour rather than on it, so a straight “add five hours” conversion will always be 30 minutes wrong.
The sun rises in Amritsar at 6:40 am today and sets at 5:49 pm — 11 hours 9 minutes of daylight, with solar noon at 12:14 pm. Those times come from the city’s coordinates (31.63, 74.87), so they shift a little every day of the year.
On the two solstices, Amritsar has about 14 hours 13 minutes of daylight in June and 10 hours 5 minutes in December. The difference is about 4 hours 8 minutes, which shows how strongly the local daylight cycle changes through the year.
The whole of India keeps one time, so the clock on this page is also the clock in New Delhi and in every other city listed below.
Amritsar at a Glance
| Coordinates | 31.6300, 74.8700 |
|---|---|
| IANA time zone | Asia/Kolkata |
| Current UTC offset | UTC+5:30 |
| Daylight saving | Not currently observed |
| Sunrise today | 6:40 am |
| Sunset today | 5:49 pm |
| Solar noon | 12:14 pm |
| Daylight today | 11 hours 9 minutes |
| Straight-line distance to New Delhi | 404 km |
| Current clock difference vs New Delhi | Same civil time |
How Amritsar Compares with Other Cities
Read the last column as the other city relative to Amritsar. Where either place uses daylight saving, the gap changes for part of the year — the time difference calculator always shows today’s figure.
| City | Local time | Compared with Amritsar |
|---|---|---|
| London | 10:46 pm | 4 hours 30 minutes behind |
| New York | 5:46 pm | 9 hours 30 minutes behind |
| Los Angeles | 2:46 pm | 12 hours 30 minutes behind |
| Dubai | 1:46 am | 1 hour 30 minutes behind |
| Karachi | 2:46 am | 30 minutes behind |
| Singapore | 5:46 am | 2 hours 30 minutes ahead |
| Tokyo | 6:46 am | 3 hours 30 minutes ahead |
| Sydney | 8:46 am | 5 hours 30 minutes ahead |
Nearby Listed Cities to Amritsar
Distances are straight-line geographic distances between the coordinates used by the directory; road or rail distances will be longer.
| City | Approx. distance | Local time |
|---|---|---|
| Chandigarh | 207 km | 3:16 am |
| Srinagar | 273 km | 3:16 am |
| New Delhi | 404 km | 3:16 am |
| Jaipur | 532 km | 3:16 am |
| Kanpur | 783 km | 3:16 am |
Other Cities in India
All of these read UTC+5:30, the same as Amritsar, because India keeps one zone nationally. Each page adds that city’s own sunrise, sunset and prayer times, which do differ.
Questions People Ask
Why is Amritsar not on a whole-hour UTC offset?
This zone is 30 minutes beyond a whole hour. Use UTC+5:30 or the IANA zone name for conversions instead of rounding it.
More Clocks and Time Zones
the current time in Amritsar, India has its own page so it can be linked to directly. world clock time is the way in to everywhere else on the site.