Chennai follows India Standard Time. It is a major southern business and port city on the same clock as Mumbai.
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Tamil Nadu’s capital does not have a separate time zone. Automotive, IT, and healthcare teams in Chennai convert IST to European morning hours and US evening hours the same way other Indian cities do.
Chennai uses Asia/Kolkata. The current offset is UTC+05:30. Clocks on this page update from that IANA zone rather than from the server’s local time.
Chennai, India is in India Standard Time (Asia/Kolkata). Chennai follows India Standard Time. It is a major southern business and port city on the same clock as Mumbai.
This time zone does not observe daylight saving time India does not observe daylight saving time. IST remains UTC+05:30 every day of the year.
At this moment the offset difference is +00:00 hours relative to UTC labels, meaning Chennai compared with Bengaluru can be converted in the time zone converter using Asia/Kolkata and Asia/Kolkata. Daylight saving on either side is applied automatically.