Varanasi, 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 ) Varanasi, India |
Current Time in other Cities of India
What time zone is Varanasi in?
Varanasi keeps IST (5 hours 30 minutes ahead of UTC, UTC+05:30). Its database zone is Asia/Kolkata — worth knowing if you are scheduling anything that has to survive a daylight saving change.
There is no daylight saving in Varanasi. UTC+05:30 applies all year, so the offset never moves on this side — only the other party's clock changes.
Varanasi has roughly 1,164,404 residents and ranks 28th by population among the India cities on this site.
How far ahead or behind is Varanasi?
Read this as: relative to each city below, Varanasi is the stated amount ahead or behind, right now.
| New York | UTC-04:00 | Varanasi is 9 hours 30 minutes ahead |
| Los Angeles | UTC-07:00 | Varanasi is 12 hours 30 minutes ahead |
| London | UTC+01:00 | Varanasi is 4 hours 30 minutes ahead |
| Paris | UTC+02:00 | Varanasi is 3 hours 30 minutes ahead |
| Dubai | UTC+04:00 | Varanasi is 1 hour 30 minutes ahead |
| Shanghai | UTC+08:00 | Varanasi is 2 hours 30 minutes behind |
| Tokyo | UTC+09:00 | Varanasi is 3 hours 30 minutes behind |
| Sydney | UTC+10:00 | Varanasi is 4 hours 30 minutes behind |
| Sao Paulo | UTC-03:00 | Varanasi is 8 hours 30 minutes ahead |
Best time to call Varanasi
Assuming a 09:00–17:00 day at both ends, these windows (in Varanasi local time) fall inside working hours for both cities.
| Dubai | 10:30–17:00 in Varanasi | 6.5 hours overlap |
| Shanghai | 09:00–14:30 in Varanasi | 5.5 hours overlap |
| Paris | 12:30–17:00 in Varanasi | 4.5 hours overlap |
| Tokyo | 09:00–13:30 in Varanasi | 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 Varanasi
Same zone, same time — each of these sits on Asia/Kolkata alongside Varanasi, including through any clock change.
Bengaluru Navi Mumbai Nagpur Coimbatore Indore Vadodara Kallakurichi Patna
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