ChennaiIndia
Current time in Chennai, India
Friday, 16 October 2026
India Standard TimeUTC+05:30
⛶ Full-screen clockChennai time at a glance
- Country
- India
- Location
- City in Tamil Nadu
- Time zone
Asia/Kolkata- UTC offset now
UTC+05:30- Current zone label
- GMT+5:30
- Next clock change
- No upcoming change available
Time-zone identity for Chennai
- IANA zone
Asia/Kolkata- UTC offset now
- UTC+05:30
- Current zone label
- GMT+5:30
- Clock-change status
- No UTC offset change was found in the next 370 days.
Chennai is currently 5 hours 30 minutes ahead of UTC. The named zone, rather than the offset alone, should be used for future dates.
Clock changes in Chennai
370-day checked horizon
No UTC offset change was found through Thursday, 21 October 2027 in runtime time-zone data 2026b.
Time-zone history
UTC offset changes for Chennai
A bounded record of offset transitions calculated for Asia/Kolkata, covering 2021 through 2031. Events are offset changes; their legal or daylight-saving cause is not inferred.
Previous 5 years
No UTC offset transition was found in the previous 5 years.
Next 5 years
No UTC offset transition was found in the next 5 years.
Dates are calculated from IANA time-zone rules. The calculation checks for offset changes throughout the displayed period and resolves each change to the nearest second.
Location context
About Chennai
Location details for Chennai in Tamil Nadu, India.
- Administrative area
- Tamil Nadu, India
- Population
- 4,681,087
- Coordinates
- 13.0878° N, 80.2785° E. The elevation is 14 metres.
Nearby city clocks
Cities near Chennai
Nearby cities are ordered by approximate straight-line distance from Chennai. Times are calculated for the same instant shown above.
- ChetputTamil Nadu, India4.5 km southwest
Asia/KolkataSame local time - NerkunramTamil Nadu, India8 km west
Asia/KolkataSame local time - TiruvottiyūrTamil Nadu, India8.2 km north
Asia/KolkataSame local time - MadhavaramTamil Nadu, India8.4 km northwest
Asia/KolkataSame local time - ManaliTamil Nadu, India8.9 km north
Asia/KolkataSame local time - MathurTamil Nadu, India9.8 km north
Asia/KolkataSame local time
Sources for Chennai time and city facts
Time-zone calculations use runtime tzdb 2026b. Weather and astronomy sources include their own retrieval times where available.
View 3 sources
- GeoNames cities15000GeoNames · 2026-07-15_01-57-51-849 · CC BY 4.0 · AccessedCity and country names, administrative area, coordinates and population.
- IANA Time Zone DatabaseInternet Assigned Numbers Authority · 2026b · Public domain · AccessedTime-zone names, UTC offsets and clock changes.
- Unicode Common Locale Data RepositoryUnicode Consortium · 48.0 · Unicode License v3 · AccessedEnglish display names for countries, currencies and languages.