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UTC to IST Time Converter

Type a time in UTC to see it in IST, with daylight saving handled for the date you pick. Every hour of the day is in the table below, and the meeting planner shows when both working days overlap.

v2026.10.10

In India

2:30 pmIST

9:00 am UTC on Wed 14 Jan 2026 is 2:30 pm IST the same day. India is 5 h 30 min ahead of UTC.

UTC (UTC)0 · 6 · 12 · 18
India (IST)
9 am–5 pmBoth at work: 2.5 h
Date there
Wednesday 14 January 2026
Offsets
UTC UTC+0 · IST UTC+5:30
Date used
Example day: Wednesday 14 January 2026
How this works: Method, 3 sources,

How this works

Method

Here UTC means Coordinated Universal Time, which never changes; IST means India Standard Time, UTC+5:30 all year. So IST is 5 h 30 min ahead of UTC all year. Two 9-to-5 working days overlap by 2 h 30 min all year. Full method

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  • 15 more conversion pages (IST to CST, BST to IST, SGT, GST, JST, MST and more); each conversion page shows all 24 hours with working hours shaded, and its best meeting times.
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How to convert UTC to IST

Here UTC means Coordinated Universal Time, which never changes; IST means India Standard Time, UTC+5:30 all year. So IST is 5 h 30 min ahead of UTC all year. Two 9-to-5 working days overlap by 2 h 30 min all year.

India is one of the simplest places to convert from UTC: its offset, +5:30, has not changed in decades and there is no daylight saving time to worry about. That makes UTC to IST a pure sum, useful when you read a cloud provider’s incident report, an exam or contest start time given in UTC, a satellite pass, or a log file from a server abroad.

The half hour is what trips people up. A cron job set for 00:00 UTC runs at 5:30 am in India, not 5:00 am, and a weekly report scheduled for the top of the hour in UTC always lands at half past in Indian time. Programming contests and online exams that publish UTC start times usually expect you to do this sum yourself. Unlike conversions to Europe or North America, the answer for a given UTC time is the same in January and July, so a single table is enough for the whole year.

Rule of thumb: Add 5 hours 30 minutes to UTC, and move to the next day if you pass midnight: 20:00 UTC is 1:30 am IST the next day.

IST = UTC +5:30

  • Asia/Kolkata in the tz database shows India on UTC+5:30 with no daylight saving time since October 1945, after brief wartime changes from 1942. Source: IANA tz database, file asia.

Meeting planner: best times for UTC and IST

The easiest meetings fall where both working days overlap, shaded dark on the bar. The lighter shading is still between 7 am and 9 pm on both clocks, so one side starts early or stays late.

All year: UTC and IST

  • Both at work: 9:00 am to 11:30 am UTC is 2:30 pm to 5:00 pm IST (2 h 30 min).
  • Early or late for one side: 7:00 am to 9:00 am UTC is 12:30 pm to 2:30 pm IST (2 h); 11:30 am to 3:30 pm UTC is 5:00 pm to 9:00 pm IST (4 h).

Both between 9 am and 5 pmBoth between 7 am and 9 pm

UTC to IST time conversion table

Every hour of the UTC day and the time in IST. The difference is the same all year.

Every hour of the UTC day and the time in IST. The difference is the same all year.
UTC timeIST time
12:00 am5:30 am
1:00 am6:30 am
2:00 am7:30 am
3:00 am8:30 am
4:00 am9:30 am
5:00 am10:30 am
6:00 am11:30 am
7:00 am12:30 pm
8:00 am1:30 pm
9:00 am2:30 pm
10:00 am3:30 pm
11:00 am4:30 pm
12:00 pm5:30 pm
1:00 pm6:30 pm
2:00 pm7:30 pm
3:00 pm8:30 pm
4:00 pm9:30 pm
5:00 pm10:30 pm
6:00 pm11:30 pm
7:00 pm12:30 am (next day)
8:00 pm1:30 am (next day)
9:00 pm2:30 am (next day)
10:00 pm3:30 am (next day)
11:00 pm4:30 am (next day)

Shaded: 9 am to 5 pm on that clock. Where a row is shaded on both sides, both are at work.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is 9 am UTC in IST?

9:00 am UTC is 2:30 pm IST, all year round.

Is IST UTC+5:30 all year?

Yes. India does not observe daylight saving time, so IST is UTC+5:30 in every season, and a UTC time always converts to the same Indian time.

What time is 00:00 UTC in India?

Midnight UTC is 5:30 am IST the same date. Daily jobs and contests that start at 00:00 UTC therefore begin early on an Indian morning, not at Indian midnight.