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IST to GMT converter

GMT is 5.5 hours behind IST right now. Live clocks on both sides, a direct time input, the full 24-hour table with a permalink per hour, and the real daylight-saving state — computed from the IANA tz database on every request, never from a stored offset.

India Standard Time · Asia/Kolkata
05:56:11
Thursday, 13 August 2026 · IST · UTC+05:30
Greenwich Mean Time · Etc/GMT
00:26:11
Thursday, 13 August 2026 · GMT · UTC+00:00

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Daylight saving right now

Greenwich Mean Time

Etc/GMT is currently on GMT (UTC+00:00).

no clock change scheduled — this zone is fixed at UTC+00:00

GMT is UTC+0 and never shifts. The UK observes GMT in winter only — in summer it is on BST (UTC+1), so "GMT" on a British invite dated in July usually means BST.

India Standard Time

Asia/Kolkata is on IST (UTC+05:30).

no clock change scheduled — fixed at UTC+05:30

India Standard Time is UTC+5:30 all year — no daylight saving, and a half-hour offset that trips up naive converters. One clock covers the whole country. Note IST is also Irish Standard Time and Israel Standard Time.

Best time to call green = 09:00–18:00 on both sides

3 overlapping working hours. The longest run is 15:00–18:00 IST, which is 09:30–12:30 GMT.

IST to GMT, hour by hour 13 August 2026 · every row is a permalink

IST GMT 12-hour Day Permalink
00:00 18:30 GMT 6:30 PM previous day 00:00 →
01:00 19:30 GMT 7:30 PM previous day 01:00 →
02:00 20:30 GMT 8:30 PM previous day 02:00 →
03:00 21:30 GMT 9:30 PM previous day 03:00 →
04:00 22:30 GMT 10:30 PM previous day 04:00 →
05:00 23:30 GMT 11:30 PM previous day 05:00 →
06:00 00:30 GMT 12:30 AM same day 06:00 →
07:00 01:30 GMT 1:30 AM same day 07:00 →
08:00 02:30 GMT 2:30 AM same day 08:00 →
09:00 03:30 GMT 3:30 AM same day 09:00 →
10:00 04:30 GMT 4:30 AM same day 10:00 →
11:00 05:30 GMT 5:30 AM same day 11:00 →
12:00 06:30 GMT 6:30 AM same day 12:00 →
13:00 07:30 GMT 7:30 AM same day 13:00 →
14:00 08:30 GMT 8:30 AM same day 14:00 →
15:00 09:30 GMT 9:30 AM same day 15:00 →
16:00 10:30 GMT 10:30 AM same day 16:00 →
17:00 11:30 GMT 11:30 AM same day 17:00 →
18:00 12:30 GMT 12:30 PM same day 18:00 →
19:00 13:30 GMT 1:30 PM same day 19:00 →
20:00 14:30 GMT 2:30 PM same day 20:00 →
21:00 15:30 GMT 3:30 PM same day 21:00 →
22:00 16:30 GMT 4:30 PM same day 22:00 →
23:00 17:30 GMT 5:30 PM same day 23:00 →

Every hour as its own page

IST to GMT — questions

What time is it in GMT when it is IST now?
GMT is currently 00:26 on Thursday, 13 August 2026 (GMT, UTC+00:00), while IST is 05:56 (UTC+05:30). That is 5.5 hours behind the source clock right now.
How many hours behind is GMT of IST?
5.5 hours at this moment. The gap is not constant across the year: India Standard Time and Greenwich Mean Time change clocks on different dates (or one of them not at all), so a difference you hard-code in summer can be an hour wrong in winter. The table on this page is computed from the current tzdata rules, not from a fixed offset.
Is GMT on daylight saving time right now?
No. Etc/GMT is on GMT (UTC+00:00) at the moment.
Does GMT observe daylight saving time?
No. Etc/GMT stays on UTC+00:00 all year, so the difference from IST only moves when IST itself changes.
What is the best time to schedule a call between IST and GMT?
There are 3 hours of overlap where both sides are inside a 09:00-18:00 working day. The longest block is 15:00–18:00 IST, which is 09:30–12:30 GMT. Use the calendar buttons above to drop it straight into Google Calendar, Outlook or an .ics file.
Which IANA timezone name should I use for GMT in code?
Use Etc/GMT. Abbreviations like GMT are ambiguous and not resolvable by most libraries — Python's ZoneInfo, Java's ZoneId, Go's time.LoadLocation and JavaScript's Intl all expect the IANA name. Hard-coding UTC+00:00 instead will be wrong the moment the rules change.

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