EST to IST time
India is 9½ hours ahead of New York in summer and 10½ hours ahead in winter, so 8:00 AM Eastern is 5:30 PM in India from March to November and 6:30 PM from November to March. Late evening on the East Coast is already the next morning in India.
Convert the other way: IST → EST
- Difference right now
- IST 9.5 hours ahead of EST
- Shared office hours
- No weekday working hours overlap; one side has to stretch before 9:00 or after 17:00.
- Daylight saving
- Only EST shifts its clocks
EST to IST, hour by hour
Every hour of the day, using today's offsets (daylight saving is applied automatically).
- 12:00 AM9:30 AM
- 1:00 AM10:30 AM
- 2:00 AM11:30 AM
- 3:00 AM12:30 PM
- 4:00 AM1:30 PM
- 5:00 AM2:30 PM
- 6:00 AM3:30 PM
- 7:00 AM4:30 PM
- 8:00 AM5:30 PM
- 9:00 AM6:30 PM
- 10:00 AM7:30 PM
- 11:00 AM8:30 PM
- 12:00 PM9:30 PM
- 1:00 PM10:30 PM
- 2:00 PM11:30 PM
- 3:00 PM12:30 AM+1
- 4:00 PM1:30 AM+1
- 5:00 PM2:30 AM+1
- 6:00 PM3:30 AM+1
- 7:00 PM4:30 AM+1
- 8:00 PM5:30 AM+1
- 9:00 PM6:30 AM+1
- 10:00 PM7:30 AM+1
- 11:00 PM8:30 AM+1
Calling family in India from the East Coast
New Jersey, Queens and the wider New York area are home to one of the largest Indian-American communities in the country, and weekend calls home follow a familiar rhythm. A Saturday 9:00 AM call from New Jersey reaches Delhi or Chennai at 6:30 PM in summer or 7:30 PM in winter, a comfortable family evening. A 9:00 PM Eastern call lands at 6:30 or 7:30 AM the next day, which suits early-rising grandparents.
Avoid the window between about 2:00 and 8:00 PM Eastern, which is the middle of the night in India. Festivals like Diwali follow India's date, so if you want to call on the day itself, call during your morning or the night before.
Watching cricket on Eastern Time
Indian Premier League evening matches start at 7:30 PM IST. Because the IPL is played from late March to May, when New York is on daylight time, that is 10:00 AM Eastern; the afternoon matches at 3:30 PM IST start at 6:00 AM. At the 2024 T20 World Cup, the India–Pakistan match in Nassau County, New York, began at 10:30 AM local time so that it aired at 8:00 PM in India.
Flying east to India, a JFK or Newark nonstop to Delhi takes about 14 hours, so an 8:00 PM departure in summer lands around 7:30 PM the following evening, Indian time. For more zone pairs, the time zone converter handles the half-hour offset automatically.
Clock changes this year
- Mar 8, 2026EST: clocks go forward, UTC−5 → UTC−4
- Nov 1, 2026EST: clocks go back, UTC−4 → UTC−5
- —IST: no clock changes this year
Cities on these zones
Other conversions with these zones
Frequently asked questions
- What time is 9 PM Eastern in India?
- 6:30 AM IST the next day in summer and 7:30 AM the next day in winter.
- Why was a cricket World Cup match in New York played in the morning?
- To reach Indian prime time. A 10:30 AM start in New York in June is 8:00 PM in India, where most viewers are.
- Is India 9½ or 10½ hours ahead of New York right now?
- It is 9½ hours between the second Sunday of March and the first Sunday of November, and 10½ hours the rest of the year. The live clocks above show the current difference.
- When are IPL matches shown on the US East Coast?
- Evening matches start at 10:00 AM Eastern and afternoon matches at 6:00 AM Eastern, because the season falls during US daylight time.
- What is the worst time to call India from New York?
- Roughly 2:00–8:00 PM Eastern, which is between about midnight and 6:30 AM in India.