Shimla, 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 ) Shimla, India |
Current Time in other Cities of India
What time zone is Shimla in?
Clocks in Shimla 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 Shimla 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.
With a population near 173,503, Shimla comes in 245th of the 429 India cities we list.
Shimla compared with major world cities
Current gap between Shimla and cities people most often need to coordinate with. These figures already account for daylight saving where it applies.
| New York | UTC-04:00 | Shimla is 9 hours 30 minutes ahead |
| Los Angeles | UTC-07:00 | Shimla is 12 hours 30 minutes ahead |
| London | UTC+01:00 | Shimla is 4 hours 30 minutes ahead |
| Paris | UTC+02:00 | Shimla is 3 hours 30 minutes ahead |
| Dubai | UTC+04:00 | Shimla is 1 hour 30 minutes ahead |
| Shanghai | UTC+08:00 | Shimla is 2 hours 30 minutes behind |
| Tokyo | UTC+09:00 | Shimla is 3 hours 30 minutes behind |
| Sydney | UTC+10:00 | Shimla is 4 hours 30 minutes behind |
| Sao Paulo | UTC-03:00 | Shimla is 8 hours 30 minutes ahead |
Best time to call Shimla
Usable call slots from Shimla, taking business hours as 09:00 to 17:00 in both places.
| Dubai | 10:30–17:00 in Shimla | 6.5 hours overlap |
| Shanghai | 09:00–14:30 in Shimla | 5.5 hours overlap |
| Paris | 12:30–17:00 in Shimla | 4.5 hours overlap |
| Tokyo | 09:00–13:30 in Shimla | 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 Shimla's time zone
These India cities also use Asia/Kolkata, so their clocks read identically to Shimla at every moment of the year.
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