One country. Many rhythms.
Explore the time on your clock, the Sun in your city, and India’s timekeeping traditions.
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A portal for daily time, global coordination and India’s timekeeping heritage.
India time, date and a clock you can copy.
Open tool or guide →59 city clocks, daylight and date differences.
Open tool or guide →Ujjain’s sunrise day and traditional time units.
Open tool or guide →City-based Rahu and Gulika; seven-day planner.
Open tool or guide →Festivals, civil dates and calendar context.
Open tool or guide →IST ↔ world cities, UTC and meeting invites.
Open tool or guide →Brahma Muhurta and daytime-midpoint windows.
Open tool or guide →Sun times and daylight across Indian cities.
Open tool or guide →Exchange sessions and overseas times in IST.
Open tool or guide →Watchmaking, movements and setting a watch.
Open tool or guide →A sunrise clock from Ujjain, and daylight-based intervals for your selected city.
A new day begins with sunrise in Ujjain. Follow its 30-hour dial alongside everyday IST.
At sunrise the dial starts at 0. Halfway to the next sunrise it reaches 15; at the next sunrise it completes 30. A display hour is about 48 ordinary minutes.
This is IndiaTime’s sunrise-based illustration, inspired by the Vikramaditya clock. It is not a live connection to the original tower or its Panchang.
Calculated from the sunrise and sunset of the city and date selected below.
Traditional timing context. City-centre astronomical estimates; local almanac conventions can differ.
Choose your city and date. The Vedic clock above keeps its separate Ujjain sunrise reference.
One civil timezone; different daylight rhythms across India.
Explore sunrise & sunset →National solar calendar. Hindu lunar dates depend on the regional Panchang.
Samvat, months & tithi →Next checked observanceLoading…·
Open Indian calendar →Watch daylight move across the world, with India’s standard meridian and city clocks.
Natural Earth illustrative geography. Dashed line: IST meridian, 82.5°E. Sunlight shading is approximate; a flat projection distorts the polar regions.
World Clock · Global Indians — your saved cities, with local dates and differences from IST.
Source-labelled upcoming dates, with local observance and closure notes.
History, meaning, instruments, calendars and the objects through which we keep time.
Meet Ujjain through its temple, observatory and sunrise-based clock. Explore devotional meaning, documented instruments and modern civil time as distinct parts of one story.
Solar observations, railway clocks and the move to a shared civil time.
Read the story →02 · Place and meaningWhere Indian timekeeping meets devotion, philosophy and a living city.
Read the story →03 · AstronomyShadow, longitude and the instruments behind a local solar reading.
Read the story →04 · CalendarsRead the era, month and regional convention behind an Indian date.
Read the story →05 · Across bordersUS cities, daylight saving and real working-hour overlap.
Read the story →06 · ArchitecturePublic time in towers, universities and railway architecture.
Read the story →07 · LanguageTime, periods and mortality: read the word in its actual context.
Read the story →08 · LearningUnderstand the five calendar components and their astronomical context.
Read the story →Yes. Civil clocks use IST, UTC+05:30. Sunrise, sunset and daylight vary with place and season.
India keeps its offset; other places may change their clocks. Use a city and date in the converter.
The sunrise-based display is an illustration of a different way to divide the day. Use IST for everyday appointments and transport.
Read the status and region beside each record. Festival observance, bank closure and trading holiday are separate categories. Sources and coverage.
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