Current Time in Varanasi, India

How Varanasi Keeps Time

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

Varanasi 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.

Varanasi 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 Varanasi at 6:01 am today and sets at 5:23 pm — 11 hours 22 minutes of daylight, with solar noon at 11:42 am. Those times come from the city’s coordinates (25.32, 82.97), so they shift a little every day of the year.

On the two solstices, Varanasi has about 13 hours 43 minutes of daylight in June and 10 hours 34 minutes in December. The difference is about 3 hours 9 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.

Varanasi at a Glance

How Varanasi Compares with Other Cities

Read the last column as the other city relative to Varanasi. 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 Varanasi

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 Varanasi, because India keeps one zone nationally. Each page adds that city’s own sunrise, sunset and prayer times, which do differ.