Free time converter
What time is it in India right now?
Pick Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Perth, or Adelaide, enter a time on either side, and get the other instantly. Australia's four daylight-saving patterns, including two cities that don't observe it at all, are handled automatically.
Australia Time, right now—
India Time (IST), right now—
Typical 9-6 overlap window
Why the city you pick actually matters here
Australia doesn't run one national daylight-saving policy. It's state by state, which means the gap to India depends on which city you mean, not just "Australia":
- Sydney / Melbourne: 4.5 hours behind IST (standard) · 5.5 hours behind (daylight, Oct-Apr)
- Brisbane: 4.5 hours behind IST, fixed all year, no daylight saving
- Adelaide: 3.5 hours behind IST (standard) · 4.5 hours behind (daylight, Oct-Apr)
- Perth: 2.5 hours behind IST, fixed all year, no daylight saving
The widget above reads each city's real, current offset rather than this static list, so it stays right through every daylight-saving change on the Australian side.
Questions people ask
Why does Brisbane show a different gap to India than Sydney?
Queensland (Brisbane) doesn't observe daylight saving, while New South Wales and Victoria (Sydney, Melbourne) do, shifting an hour each October-to-April. So Sydney's gap to India moves between 4.5 and 5.5 hours over the year, while Brisbane sits fixed at 4.5 hours behind IST year-round.
What about Perth and Adelaide specifically?
Perth runs on Australian Western Standard Time with no daylight saving, 2.5 hours behind IST all year, the smallest gap of any Australian city to India. Adelaide does observe daylight saving, so its gap to India moves between 3.5 and 4.5 hours depending on the time of year, the same pattern as Sydney and Melbourne just with a different base offset.
Is there a usable overlap window for meetings?
Yes, this is one of the friendlier India corridors. Sydney's working day (9am-6pm) runs roughly 1:30pm-10:30pm India time depending on the season, so there's a solid multi-hour window spanning the Indian afternoon and early evening where both sides are at their desks. Most Western time zones don't get that much overlap with India.
Does the converter know which Australian state observes daylight saving?
Yes. Each city option above maps to its own real IANA time zone (Australia/Sydney, Australia/Brisbane, Australia/Perth, Australia/Adelaide), and each of those carries its own correct daylight-saving rule. Picking the right city matters more for Australia-India than for most other pairs, since the four options genuinely diverge.
Need a different pair? See every time zone converter on the site, or the rest of the free tools built by Karthik Ramachandiran.