SGT to IST

About Singapore Time

Singapore is a fixed UTC+8 even though it sits near 104°E, where solar noon falls closer to UTC+7 — it moved forward half an hour in 1982 to share a clock with peninsular Malaysia and Hong Kong. The practical effect is that the sun there rises and sets unusually late for the clock.

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 Singapore Time nor India Standard Time moves its clock relative to the other, so india standard time is 2 hours 30 minutes behind singapore 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 Singapore 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/Singapore and Asia/Kolkata. Nothing is looked up on a server and nothing about your visit is recorded.