Time in Mumbai
India · Asia/Kolkata · latitude 19.08°
Reading your clock…
Mumbai never changes its clocks
Mumbai stays on UTC+05:30 all year round. This is worth being careful about rather than relaxed about: the gap between Mumbai and a city that does observe daylight saving still moves twice a year, because the other end moved. A recurring call can drift by an hour without anything changing here at all.
Same clock, different sky: Bengaluru, Delhi, Hyderabad, Chennai, Pune share Asia/Kolkata. Sunrise and sunset differ between them because latitude does, even though the clock does not.
Time difference from Mumbai
Where a range is shown, the gap genuinely changes during the year. That is not rounding or hedging — it is two governments moving their clocks on different weekends.
| City | Difference now | Across the year |
|---|---|---|
| London | 4 hours 30 minutes behind | −5h30 / −4h30 |
| New York | 9 hours 30 minutes behind | −10h30 / −9h30 |
| Los Angeles | 12 hours 30 minutes behind | −13h30 / −12h30 |
| Chicago | 10 hours 30 minutes behind | −11h30 / −10h30 |
| Toronto | 9 hours 30 minutes behind | −10h30 / −9h30 |
| Paris | 3 hours 30 minutes behind | −4h30 / −3h30 |
| Berlin | 3 hours 30 minutes behind | −4h30 / −3h30 |
| Dubai | 1 hour 30 minutes behind | constant |
| Singapore | 2 hours 30 minutes ahead | constant |
| Hong Kong | 2 hours 30 minutes ahead | constant |
| Tokyo | 3 hours 30 minutes ahead | constant |
| Sydney | 4 hours 30 minutes ahead | +4h30 / +5h30 |
| Auckland | 6 hours 30 minutes ahead | +6h30 / +7h30 |
| São Paulo | 8 hours 30 minutes behind | constant |
| UTC | 5 hours 30 minutes behind | constant |
Daylight in Mumbai through the year
From about 11.0 hours in December to 13.3 hours in June. This is the part a plain clock leaves out: 17:00 is a bright evening in one month and long dark in another.
| Month | Sunrise | Sunset | Daylight |
|---|---|---|---|
| January | 06:36 | 17:46 | 11h 10m |
| February | 06:26 | 18:03 | 11h 37m |
| March | 06:05 | 18:12 | 12h 7m |
| April | 05:40 | 18:19 | 12h 39m |
| May | 05:24 | 18:30 | 13h 6m |
| June | 05:23 | 18:40 | 13h 17m |
| July | 05:33 | 18:41 | 13h 8m |
| August | 05:43 | 18:25 | 12h 42m |
| September | 05:49 | 17:58 | 12h 9m |
| October | 05:56 | 17:34 | 11h 38m |
| November | 06:11 | 17:22 | 11h 11m |
| December | 06:29 | 17:28 | 10h 59m |
Daylight length is accurate. The clock times of sunrise and sunset assume each city sits at the centre of its time zone, which can put them up to about an hour and a quarter out for places near a zone's edge — Madrid being the standard example. Day length is unaffected.
Questions
About time in Mumbai
What time zone is Mumbai in?
Mumbai uses the IANA time zone Asia/Kolkata, a fixed UTC+05:30 with no daylight saving. The same zone covers Bengaluru, Delhi, Hyderabad, Chennai, Pune.
Does Mumbai observe daylight saving time?
No. Mumbai stays on UTC+05:30 all year. That does not mean the gap between Mumbai and other cities is fixed, though: when a city that does observe daylight saving changes its clocks, the difference between you and them moves even though nothing changed here.
Why does the time difference to Mumbai keep changing?
Because the two places do not change their clocks on the same weekend, and in opposite hemispheres they change in opposite directions. London is a clear example: it sits 5 hours 30 minutes behind, then 4 hours 30 minutes behind across the year rather than one fixed distance.
How much daylight does Mumbai get?
Around 13.3 hours at the longest, in June, and about 11.0 hours at the shortest, in December. The table on this page lists sunrise and sunset through the year. Times are calculated from Mumbai's latitude of 19.08° and are approximate to within about an hour for cities that sit well away from the centre of their time zone.