| CITY | LOCAL TIME | Difference | Coming up |
|---|---|---|---|
| London United Kingdom | 01:00 | −4:30 | Becomes −5:30 on 25 Oct |
| Berlin Germany | 02:00 | −3:30 | Becomes −4:30 on 25 Oct |
| Dubai UAE | 04:00 | −1:30 | |
| Tokyo Japan | 09:00 | +3:30 | |
| Sydney Australia | 10:00 | +4:30 | Becomes +5:30 on 4 Oct |
| New York United States | 20:00Wed | −9:30 | Becomes −10:30 on 1 Nov |
| Los Angeles United States | 17:00Wed | −12:30 | Becomes −13:30 on 1 Nov |
Amritsar, India runs on UTC+5:30. This time zone stays fixed year-round at UTC+5:30 — daylight saving time is not observed. The time difference between Amritsar and New York is 9 hours and 30 minutes. Standard working hours don't overlap at all with New York, so meetings need an early or late slot on one side. The time difference between Amritsar and London is 4 hours and 30 minutes. Standard 9-to-6 working hours overlap for about 4 hours and 30 minutes a day with London. A good time to connect: 13:30–18:00 in Amritsar lines up with 09:00–13:30 in London. The time difference between Amritsar and Tokyo is 3 hours and 30 minutes. Standard 9-to-6 working hours overlap for about 5 hours and 30 minutes a day with Tokyo. A good time to connect: 09:00–14:30 in Amritsar lines up with 12:30–18:00 in Tokyo. This timezone is also shared with cities such as Mumbai, Delhi, Bangalore. Keeping these offsets in mind makes it easier to schedule calls or travel to and from Amritsar.
Amritsar (India) is home to roughly 1.2M people. Today brings about 11.9 hours of daylight: sunrise at 06:23, sunset at 18:17. This time zone stays fixed year-round at UTC+5:30 — daylight saving time is not observed. It sits in the Northern Hemisphere, about 32° north of the equator. Traffic drives on the left.
Flag
India
Capital
New Delhi
Continent
Asia
Time Zone
UTC+5:30 · Asia/Kolkata
Coordinates
31.63°N, 74.87°E
Currency
INR (₹)
Calling Code
+91
Driving Side
Left
Hemisphere
Northern
Language
Hindi, English
Measurement System
Metric
Did You Know?
The Golden Temple's langar serves free meals to somewhere between 50,000 and 100,000 people daily, and more on festival days — probably the largest free kitchen in the world. Anyone may eat, and everyone sits on the floor in rows.
The clock: Amritsar keeps UTC+5:30. The temple itself is gilded with roughly 750 kg of gold.
Amritsar lies at 74.9°E. Its time zone, UTC+5:30, is built around the 82.5°E meridian. The 7.6° gap between them means the clock runs roughly 31 minutes ahead of the sun: solar noon arrives at about 12:31 rather than 12:00. The zone holds UTC+5:30 all year — there is no daylight saving here.
The longest day of 2026 is 22 June, with 14h 13m of daylight. The shortest is 22 December, with 10h 5m. The swing between them is 4h 8m. At this latitude the seasons are visible in the clock, but never dramatic.
The earliest sunrise and the latest sunset do not land on the longest day. In Amritsar the sun comes up earliest on 12 June at 05:25, while the latest sunset waits until 2 July at 19:40. The equation of time is what separates them: the Earth's elliptical orbit and axial tilt move solar noon back and forth by several minutes over the year.
The sky stays usably light for a while after the sun goes down. In Amritsar that civil twilight runs about 24 minutes at the equinox.
Every figure in this section is computed from the city's own latitude, longitude and IANA time zone using NOAA solar algorithms (Spencer, 1971), accurate to about ±2 arcminutes below 65° latitude.
The official timezone for Amritsar, India is Asia/Kolkata with a current UTC offset of UTC+5:30.
Amritsar has an estimated population of 1.2M and is located at coordinates 31.63°N, 74.87°E.
Amritsar gets 14h 13m of daylight on its longest day and 10h 5m on its shortest, averaging 12h 10m a day across the year.
Solar noon in Amritsar falls at about 12:31 on UTC+5:30 standard time, because the city sits 7.6° from the meridian its zone is built on.
A Kitchen Feeding 100,000 a Day: The Golden Temple's langar serves free meals to somewhere between 50,000 and 100,000 people daily, and more on festival days — probably the largest free kitchen in the world.