Current time in Chandigarh, India
The current local time in Chandigarh is shown below. Chandigarh observes IST.
What's the daylight saving status?
Chandigarh does not observe daylight saving time. The local offset is fixed year-round.
When are sunrise & sunset today?
What are the timezone facts?
- Timezone
- Asia/Kolkata
- Standard abbreviation
- IST
- Observes daylight saving
- No
- Country
- 🇮🇳 India
- Business hours
- 09:00 – 17:00 local
What's the timezone history of Chandigarh?
Sitting at around 30.7 degrees north, Chandigarh lies far enough up the country for the single national clock to produce a wide seasonal swing in daylight: winter sunrises come after 07:00 and summer dawns before 05:30, a range the fixed Indian offset never flexes to follow. This contrasts with the southern cities, where day length barely shifts across the year. At around 76.8 degrees east the city's clock runs a little ahead of its solar time, and the country observes no daylight saving.
What are the working hours in Chandigarh?
As the administrative seat of two states and a union territory, working life is weighted toward government, the courts, and a growing information-technology park, lending the city a more ordered office rhythm than India's older industrial centres. Secretariat hours run roughly 09:00 to 17:00. The planned layout and low density give it short, predictable commutes unusual in urban India. Closures cluster around Diwali, the Sikh gurpurabs prominent in Punjab, and Baisakhi in April, which marks the spring harvest across the surrounding farmland.
Where is Chandigarh?
Chandigarh sits at the foot of the Shivalik Hills in northern India, a planned city laid out in the 1950s to the design of Le Corbusier as a fresh capital for Punjab after partition. It now serves as the shared capital of both Punjab and Haryana while being governed separately as a union territory. Its grid of numbered sectors holds around 1.2 million people across the wider urban area, among the highest average incomes in the country.