Time in Chennai now
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Saturday, September 5, 2026
Chennai time zone info
UTC +5:30
India Standard Time (GMT+5:30)
now 10.5 hours ahead of Chicago
- Chennai does not observe daylight saving time.
- The IANA time zone identifier for Chennai is Asia/Kolkata.
Chennai's sunrise, sunset, day length and solar time
- Sunrise: 4:41 PM
- Sunset: 5:01 AM
- Day length: 12h 20m
- Culmination: 10:51 PM
- Currently Chennai time is 651 minutes behind apparent solar time.
Time difference
Compared with Chennai
UTC
−5.5 hours
Chennai on the map
- Chennai is in India.
- Latitude: 13.08. Longitude: 80.27.
- Population: 4,646,732
- India: Population: 1,428,000,000