Current Time in Chennai, India

How Chennai Keeps Time

Chennai keeps IST, UTC+5:30. The live clock normally synchronizes to the site time source and then applies the IANA rules for Chennai; until synchronization succeeds, it uses the device clock as a fallback. Daylight-saving changes are applied only where that zone actually observes them.

Chennai 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.

Chennai 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 Chennai at 6:00 am today and sets at 5:45 pm — 11 hours 45 minutes of daylight, with solar noon at 11:53 am. Those times come from the city’s coordinates (13.08, 80.27), so they shift a little every day of the year.

On the two solstices, Chennai has about 12 hours 54 minutes of daylight in June and 11 hours 21 minutes in December. The difference is about 1 hour 33 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.

Chennai at a Glance

How Chennai Compares with Other Cities

Read the last column as the other city relative to Chennai. Where either place uses daylight saving, the gap changes for part of the year — the time difference calculator always shows today’s figure.

Nearby Listed Cities to Chennai

Distances are straight-line geographic distances between the coordinates used by the directory; road or rail distances will be longer.

Other Cities in India

All of these read UTC+5:30, the same as Chennai, because India keeps one zone nationally. Each page adds that city’s own sunrise, sunset and prayer times, which do differ.