Ranchi, 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 ) Ranchi, India |
Current Time in other Cities of India
Ranchi clocks, offsets and daylight saving
Clocks in Ranchi 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.
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 Ranchi.
With a population near 1,120,374, Ranchi comes in 29th of the 429 India cities we list.
Time difference between Ranchi and other cities
How Ranchi lines up against other major centres at this moment — the numbers move when either side changes its clocks.
| New York | UTC-04:00 | Ranchi is 9 hours 30 minutes ahead |
| Los Angeles | UTC-07:00 | Ranchi is 12 hours 30 minutes ahead |
| London | UTC+01:00 | Ranchi is 4 hours 30 minutes ahead |
| Paris | UTC+02:00 | Ranchi is 3 hours 30 minutes ahead |
| Dubai | UTC+04:00 | Ranchi is 1 hour 30 minutes ahead |
| Shanghai | UTC+08:00 | Ranchi is 2 hours 30 minutes behind |
| Tokyo | UTC+09:00 | Ranchi is 3 hours 30 minutes behind |
| Sydney | UTC+10:00 | Ranchi is 4 hours 30 minutes behind |
| Sao Paulo | UTC-03:00 | Ranchi is 8 hours 30 minutes ahead |
When Ranchi and other cities overlap
Assuming a 09:00–17:00 day at both ends, these windows (in Ranchi local time) fall inside working hours for both cities.
| Dubai | 10:30–17:00 in Ranchi | 6.5 hours overlap |
| Shanghai | 09:00–14:30 in Ranchi | 5.5 hours overlap |
| Paris | 12:30–17:00 in Ranchi | 4.5 hours overlap |
| Tokyo | 09:00–13:30 in Ranchi | 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.
Same local time as Ranchi
No difference at all from Ranchi: the cities below share the Asia/Kolkata zone.
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