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India time to Nairobi time

Convert Indian Standard Time (IST) to the time in Nairobi (East Africa Time, EAT), with the hours that suit a call.

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The time difference

Nairobi is 2 hours 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 Nairobi time

Good hours to start a call (8 am to 9 pm in both places): from 11:00 am to 8:00 pm India time. Hours that start inside office time (9 am to 6 pm) in both: 12:00 pm to 5:00 pm India time.

India (IST)Nairobi
12:00 am9:30 pm previous day
1:00 am10:30 pm previous day
2:00 am11:30 pm previous day
3:00 am12:30 am
4:00 am1:30 am
5:00 am2:30 am
6:00 am3:30 am
7:00 am4:30 am
8:00 am5:30 am
9:00 am6:30 am
10:00 am7:30 am
11:00 am8:30 am
12:00 pm9:30 am
1:00 pm10:30 am
2:00 pm11:30 am
3:00 pm12:30 pm
4:00 pm1:30 pm
5:00 pm2:30 pm
6:00 pm3:30 pm
7:00 pm4:30 pm
8:00 pm5:30 pm
9:00 pm6:30 pm
10:00 pm7:30 pm
11:00 pm8:30 pm

Worked examples

All year. An office that closes at 6:00 pm in India closes when it is 3:30 pm in Nairobi. A 9:00 am start in Nairobi is 11:30 am in India, and its 6:00 pm finish is 8:30 pm in India. A message sent at 10:30 pm from India lands at 8:00 pm in Nairobi.

When the date is different

Nairobi is behind India, so for 2 hours 30 minutes of every day the calendar date differs: from midnight until 2:30 am India time, it is still the previous day in Nairobi. 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 Nairobi belongs to has its largest city, Nairobi, at about 36.8° east. The sun crosses the sky between those two lines in about 3 hours 3 minutes. Clock time rounds that to a tidy figure: 2 hours 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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