Madurai, India
Current time in India
Time zone: IST (UTC/GMT +05:30) — Asia/Kolkata
| Local Clock Offset: Yesterday, -2.5 H |
| Time zone: (UTC/GMT +5.5 ) Madurai, India |
Current Time in other Cities of India
Time zone in Madurai
Local time here is IST, which sits 5 hours 30 minutes ahead of UTC, written UTC+05:30. The canonical zone name is Asia/Kolkata, and that is what to pick from a time zone dropdown.
Daylight saving is not observed here, so UTC+05:30 is year-round. Any seasonal drift you notice against another city comes from that city, not from Madurai.
Around 1,465,625 people live in Madurai, making it the 11th largest of the 429 India cities covered here.
How far ahead or behind is Madurai?
How Madurai lines up against other major centres at this moment — the numbers move when either side changes its clocks.
| New York | UTC-04:00 | Madurai is 9 hours 30 minutes ahead |
| Los Angeles | UTC-07:00 | Madurai is 12 hours 30 minutes ahead |
| London | UTC+01:00 | Madurai is 4 hours 30 minutes ahead |
| Paris | UTC+02:00 | Madurai is 3 hours 30 minutes ahead |
| Dubai | UTC+04:00 | Madurai is 1 hour 30 minutes ahead |
| Shanghai | UTC+08:00 | Madurai is 2 hours 30 minutes behind |
| Tokyo | UTC+09:00 | Madurai is 3 hours 30 minutes behind |
| Sydney | UTC+10:00 | Madurai is 4 hours 30 minutes behind |
| Sao Paulo | UTC-03:00 | Madurai is 8 hours 30 minutes ahead |
Scheduling calls with Madurai
Overlap of a normal working day, shown in Madurai time — outside these windows one side is off the clock.
| Dubai | 10:30–17:00 in Madurai | 6.5 hours overlap |
| Shanghai | 09:00–14:30 in Madurai | 5.5 hours overlap |
| Paris | 12:30–17:00 in Madurai | 4.5 hours overlap |
| Tokyo | 09:00–13:30 in Madurai | 4.5 hours overlap |
No shared working window exists with New York, Los Angeles or Sao Paulo, so those calls have to sit outside somebody's normal hours.
Cities on the same clock as Madurai
These India cities also use Asia/Kolkata, so their clocks read identically to Madurai at every moment of the year.
Bengaluru Navi Mumbai Nagpur Coimbatore Indore Vadodara Kallakurichi Patna
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