Current time in Kochi, India
The current local time in Kochi is shown below. Kochi observes IST.
What's the daylight saving status?
Kochi 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/Calcutta
- Standard abbreviation
- IST
- Observes daylight saving
- No
- Country
- 🇮🇳 India
- Business hours
- 09:00 – 17:00 local
What's the timezone history of Kochi?
Kochi uses Indian Standard Time at UTC+5:30, the same single offset applied across the entire country. Kerala's longitude near 76 degrees east places wall time slightly behind solar noon, leaving sunrises noticeably earlier here than in Kolkata at the same wall-clock hour. The 30-minute offset means international scheduling against round-hour zones requires routine adjustment. The closest country zones are Sri Lanka at the same +5:30 and Bangladesh at +6, the latter producing a 30-minute step across the eastern border.
What are the working hours in Kochi?
The Cochin Special Economic Zone, the InfoPark technology campus, marine products processing, and tourism along the backwaters anchor the working economy. Standard office hours run 09:30 to 18:00 in the modern Kakkanad and Infopark commercial districts. The historic Fort Kochi area, organised around remnants of the 16th-century Portuguese colonial trading post, runs visitor-economy schedules tied to cruise ship arrivals and the December-to-February tourism peak. Onam, the harvest festival typically in late August or early September, is the year's most significant Kerala-specific calendar event.
Where is Kochi?
Kochi lies on the south-western Indian coast in Kerala state, around 220 kilometres north of Thiruvananthapuram. The city proper holds around 600,000 residents and the wider metropolitan area roughly 2.1 million. A series of islands, peninsulas, and backwater lagoons divide the city into distinct districts: Fort Kochi, Mattancherry, Willingdon Island, and the commercial mainland Ernakulam. The Cochin Port and Vallarpadam container terminal handle Kerala's principal shipping traffic. The Vembanad Lake backwaters extend south for around 95 kilometres.