MSK to IST
India Standard Time is 2 hours 30 minutes ahead of Moscow Time, all year round.
MSK to IST conversion table
Every hour of the day, Moscow Time to India Standard Time. The gap never changes, so this table holds on every date.
| MSK | IST |
|---|---|
| 12:00 AM | 2:30 AM |
| 1:00 AM | 3:30 AM |
| 2:00 AM | 4:30 AM |
| 3:00 AM | 5:30 AM |
| 4:00 AM | 6:30 AM |
| 5:00 AM | 7:30 AM |
| 6:00 AM | 8:30 AM |
| 7:00 AM | 9:30 AM |
| 8:00 AM | 10:30 AM |
| 9:00 AM | 11:30 AM |
| 10:00 AM | 12:30 PM |
| 11:00 AM | 1:30 PM |
| MSK | IST |
|---|---|
| 12:00 PM | 2:30 PM |
| 1:00 PM | 3:30 PM |
| 2:00 PM | 4:30 PM |
| 3:00 PM | 5:30 PM |
| 4:00 PM | 6:30 PM |
| 5:00 PM | 7:30 PM |
| 6:00 PM | 8:30 PM |
| 7:00 PM | 9:30 PM |
| 8:00 PM | 10:30 PM |
| 9:00 PM | 11:30 PM |
| 10:00 PM | 12:30 AM +1 day |
| 11:00 PM | 1:30 AM +1 day |
Shared working hours
Taking a working day as 09:00–17:00 in each zone, Moscow Time and India Standard Time overlap for 5 hours 30 minutes.
9:00 AM–2:30 PM in MSK is 11:30 AM–5:00 PM in IST.
When the difference changes
It doesn't. India Standard Time is 2 hours 30 minutes ahead of Moscow Time on every date of the year. Moscow Time runs at UTC+03:00; India Standard Time runs at UTC+05:30.
About Moscow Time
Moscow has been a fixed UTC+3 since 2014, after Russia spent three years on permanent daylight time and then abandoned the experiment. Istanbul, Nairobi, Riyadh and Doha keep the same clock year-round, so the figures here apply to them too.
Cities on this clock: Moscow, St. Petersburg, Minsk, Istanbul, Ankara, Riyadh, Baghdad, Doha.
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 Moscow Time nor India Standard Time moves its clock relative to the other, so india standard time is 2 hours 30 minutes ahead of moscow 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 ahead of Moscow 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 Europe/Moscow and Asia/Kolkata. Nothing is looked up on a server and nothing about your visit is recorded.
Is IST ahead of or behind MSK?
India Standard Time is 2 hours 30 minutes ahead of Moscow Time, all year round. Moscow Time runs at UTC+03:00; India Standard Time runs at UTC+05:30. Because neither zone changes its clock, the gap never moves.
What time is 9 AM MSK in IST?
9:00 AM MSK is 11:30 AM IST.
When can Moscow 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: 9:00 AM–2:30 PM in Moscow Time, which is 11:30 AM–5:00 PM in India Standard Time.
What does MSK stand for?
MSK is Moscow Time, also written Moscow time. Moscow has been a fixed UTC+3 since 2014, after Russia spent three years on permanent daylight time and then abandoned the experiment. Istanbul, Nairobi, Riyadh and Doha keep the same clock year-round, so the figures here apply to them too.