Puducherry, 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 ) Puducherry, India |
Current Time in other Cities of India
Time zone in Puducherry
Clocks in Puducherry are set to IST, 5 hours 30 minutes ahead of UTC (UTC+05:30). Software that asks for a region wants Asia/Kolkata — the IANA identifier for this zone.
Clocks in Puducherry stay put. With no summer-time switch, the UTC+05:30 offset is fixed and the differences shown below only shift when the other end changes.
Around 657,209 people live in Puducherry, making it the 60th largest of the 429 India cities covered here.
How far ahead or behind is Puducherry?
How Puducherry lines up against other major centres at this moment — the numbers move when either side changes its clocks.
| New York | UTC-04:00 | Puducherry is 9 hours 30 minutes ahead |
| Los Angeles | UTC-07:00 | Puducherry is 12 hours 30 minutes ahead |
| London | UTC+01:00 | Puducherry is 4 hours 30 minutes ahead |
| Paris | UTC+02:00 | Puducherry is 3 hours 30 minutes ahead |
| Dubai | UTC+04:00 | Puducherry is 1 hour 30 minutes ahead |
| Shanghai | UTC+08:00 | Puducherry is 2 hours 30 minutes behind |
| Tokyo | UTC+09:00 | Puducherry is 3 hours 30 minutes behind |
| Sydney | UTC+10:00 | Puducherry is 4 hours 30 minutes behind |
| Sao Paulo | UTC-03:00 | Puducherry is 8 hours 30 minutes ahead |
Best time to call Puducherry
Overlap of a normal working day, shown in Puducherry time — outside these windows one side is off the clock.
| Dubai | 10:30–17:00 in Puducherry | 6.5 hours overlap |
| Shanghai | 09:00–14:30 in Puducherry | 5.5 hours overlap |
| Paris | 12:30–17:00 in Puducherry | 4.5 hours overlap |
| Tokyo | 09:00–13:30 in Puducherry | 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.
Sharing Puducherry's time zone
These India cities also use Asia/Kolkata, so their clocks read identically to Puducherry at every moment of the year.
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