| 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 |
Thiruvananthapuram, 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 Thiruvananthapuram 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 Thiruvananthapuram 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 Thiruvananthapuram lines up with 09:00–13:30 in London. The time difference between Thiruvananthapuram 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 Thiruvananthapuram 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 Thiruvananthapuram.
Thiruvananthapuram (India) is home to roughly 960K people. Today brings about 12.1 hours of daylight: sunrise at 06:10, sunset at 18:13. This time zone stays fixed year-round at UTC+5:30 — daylight saving time is not observed. It sits in the Northern Hemisphere, about 9° north of the equator. Traffic drives on the left.
Flag
India
Capital
New Delhi
Continent
Asia
Time Zone
UTC+5:30 · Asia/Kolkata
Coordinates
8.52°N, 76.94°E
Currency
INR (₹)
Calling Code
+91
Driving Side
Left
Hemisphere
Northern
Language
Hindi, English
Measurement System
Metric
Did You Know?
Padmanabhaswamy Temple's vaults were inventoried from 2011 and found to contain gold, jewels and coins valued in the tens of billions of dollars. One chamber, Vault B, has still not been opened, on the temple's objection.
The clock: Thiruvananthapuram keeps UTC+5:30 at 8.5° north, where day length varies by barely an hour across the entire year.
Thiruvananthapuram lies at 76.9°E. Its time zone, UTC+5:30, is built around the 82.5°E meridian. The 5.6° gap between them means the clock runs roughly 22 minutes ahead of the sun: solar noon arrives at about 12:22 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 12h 37m of daylight. The shortest is 22 December, with 11h 38m. The swing between them is 1h. Within a few degrees of the equator the length of the day barely moves all year.
The earliest sunrise and the latest sunset do not land on the longest day. In Thiruvananthapuram the sun comes up earliest on 28 May at 06:02, while the latest sunset waits until 16 July at 18:45. 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 Thiruvananthapuram that civil twilight runs about 21 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 Thiruvananthapuram, India is Asia/Kolkata with a current UTC offset of UTC+5:30.
Thiruvananthapuram has an estimated population of 960K and is located at coordinates 8.52°N, 76.94°E.
Thiruvananthapuram gets 12h 37m of daylight on its longest day and 11h 38m on its shortest, averaging 12h 8m a day across the year.
Solar noon in Thiruvananthapuram falls at about 12:22 on UTC+5:30 standard time, because the city sits 5.6° from the meridian its zone is built on.
A Temple With an Unopened Vault: Padmanabhaswamy Temple's vaults were inventoried from 2011 and found to contain gold, jewels and coins valued in the tens of billions of dollars.