HKT to IST
India Standard Time is 2 hours 30 minutes behind Hong Kong Time, all year round.
HKT to IST conversion table
Every hour of the day, Hong Kong Time to India Standard Time. The gap never changes, so this table holds on every date.
| HKT | IST |
|---|---|
| 12:00 AM | 9:30 PM −1 day |
| 1:00 AM | 10:30 PM −1 day |
| 2:00 AM | 11:30 PM −1 day |
| 3:00 AM | 12:30 AM |
| 4:00 AM | 1:30 AM |
| 5:00 AM | 2:30 AM |
| 6:00 AM | 3:30 AM |
| 7:00 AM | 4:30 AM |
| 8:00 AM | 5:30 AM |
| 9:00 AM | 6:30 AM |
| 10:00 AM | 7:30 AM |
| 11:00 AM | 8:30 AM |
| HKT | IST |
|---|---|
| 12:00 PM | 9:30 AM |
| 1:00 PM | 10:30 AM |
| 2:00 PM | 11:30 AM |
| 3:00 PM | 12:30 PM |
| 4:00 PM | 1:30 PM |
| 5:00 PM | 2:30 PM |
| 6:00 PM | 3:30 PM |
| 7:00 PM | 4:30 PM |
| 8:00 PM | 5:30 PM |
| 9:00 PM | 6:30 PM |
| 10:00 PM | 7:30 PM |
| 11:00 PM | 8:30 PM |
Shared working hours
Taking a working day as 09:00–17:00 in each zone, Hong Kong Time and India Standard Time overlap for 5 hours 30 minutes.
11:30 AM–5:00 PM in HKT is 9:00 AM–2:30 PM in IST.
When the difference changes
It doesn't. India Standard Time is 2 hours 30 minutes behind Hong Kong Time on every date of the year. Hong Kong Time runs at UTC+08:00; India Standard Time runs at UTC+05:30.
About Hong Kong Time
Hong Kong is a fixed UTC+8. Daylight saving was used on and off until 1979 and has not been since, so its gap to every other zone on this site is either constant or moves only because the other zone changes.
Cities on this clock: Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Chongqing, Taipei, Hong Kong, Singapore.
About India Standard Time
India keeps one clock, UTC+5:30, across a country spanning about 29 degrees of longitude — the sun rises nearly two hours earlier in Arunachal Pradesh than in Gujarat on the same clock. The half-hour offset means most conversions from India land on the half hour rather than the hour. Sri Lanka keeps the same time.
Cities on this clock: Mumbai, Delhi, Bangalore, Hyderabad, Chennai, Kolkata, Pune, Ahmedabad.
Watch out: IST is also Israel Standard Time (UTC+2) and Irish Standard Time (UTC+1). This page is the Indian one.
How the difference is worked out
Neither Hong Kong Time nor India Standard Time moves its clock relative to the other, so india standard time is 2 hours 30 minutes behind hong kong time is a rule rather than a fact about one particular year. The hour-by-hour table above holds on every date.
With both zones on their own standard time — daylight saving not in force anywhere — India Standard Time is 2 hours 30 minutes behind Hong Kong Time. That figure never changes; everything else on this page follows from it plus whichever clocks have moved.
Every figure here comes from the IANA time zone database via your browser's own Intl engine, using the zone ids Asia/Hong_Kong and Asia/Kolkata. Nothing is looked up on a server and nothing about your visit is recorded.
Is IST ahead of or behind HKT?
India Standard Time is 2 hours 30 minutes behind Hong Kong Time, all year round. Hong Kong Time runs at UTC+08:00; India Standard Time runs at UTC+05:30. Because neither zone changes its clock, the gap never moves.
What time is 9 AM HKT in IST?
9:00 AM HKT is 6:30 AM IST.
When can Hong Kong Time and India Standard Time meet?
Taking a working day as 09:00–17:00 in each zone, the two overlap for 5 hours 30 minutes: 11:30 AM–5:00 PM in Hong Kong Time, which is 9:00 AM–2:30 PM in India Standard Time.
What does HKT stand for?
HKT is Hong Kong Time, also written Hong Kong time. Hong Kong is a fixed UTC+8. Daylight saving was used on and off until 1979 and has not been since, so its gap to every other zone on this site is either constant or moves only because the <em>other</em> zone changes.