Current time in Lucknow, India
The current local time in Lucknow is shown below. Lucknow observes IST.
What's the daylight saving status?
Lucknow 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 Lucknow?
Lucknow has an unusually close relationship with the national clock. The 82.5 degrees east meridian that fixes Indian Standard Time runs through Uttar Pradesh, the state the city governs, passing near Prayagraj a little to the south-east. At around 81 degrees east Lucknow therefore sits within a few minutes of its own true solar time, where Mumbai on the west coast runs well ahead of the sun and Kolkata in the east lags behind it. The country keeps no daylight saving.
What are the working hours in Lucknow?
Government and public administration set the working rhythm, as befits a state capital, with secretariat offices running roughly 10:00 to 17:00 and the legislative calendar shaping the busy periods. The older economy of chikan embroidery, perfumery, and courtly crafts persists alongside newer service and technology parks on the outskirts. Lunch is unhurried by the standards of the southern technology cities. Diwali in the autumn and the Eid festivals are the principal closures, the latter marked with particular prominence given the city's deep Awadhi Muslim heritage. Sessions of the state legislature punctuate the official calendar with their own busy stretches.
Where is Lucknow?
Lucknow is the capital of Uttar Pradesh, India's most populous state, set on the Gomti River in the Indo-Gangetic plain of the north. The metropolitan area holds around 3.5 million people. Long the seat of the Nawabs of Awadh, it sits roughly 500 kilometres south-east of Delhi at the centre of a densely populated agricultural region, and remains the administrative and cultural focus of a state whose population approaches that of Brazil.