India time to Karachi time

The time difference

Karachi is 30 minutes behind India all year. Neither place changes its clocks, so the difference never moves. India is always UTC+5:30, known as IST.

India time to Karachi time

Good hours to start a call (8 am to 9 pm in both places): from 9:00 am to 8:00 pm India time. Hours that start inside office time (9 am to 6 pm) in both: 10:00 am to 5:00 pm India time.

Worked examples

All year. An office that closes at 6:00 pm in India closes when it is 5:30 pm in Karachi. A 9:00 am start in Karachi is 9:30 am in India, and its 6:00 pm finish is 6:30 pm in India. A message sent at 10:30 pm from India lands at 10:00 pm in Karachi.

When the date is different

Karachi is behind India, so for 30 minutes of every day the calendar date differs: from midnight until 12:30 am India time, it is still the previous day in Karachi. Mention the date as well as the time when you fix something in those hours.

Why the gap is what it is

Indian Standard Time follows the sun at longitude 82.5° east. The zone that Karachi belongs to has its largest city, Lahore, at about 74.3° east. The sun crosses the sky between those two lines in about 33 minutes. Clock time rounds that to a tidy figure: 30 minutes. The two figures differ because every country picks a round offset that suits its whole territory, and some add summer time on top.

Rows marked in colour fall between 8 am and 9 pm in both places. Dates are from the IANA time zone database 2026f.

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