EAT to IST Time Converter

Common Times Converted

EAT on the left, IST on the right.

EAT to IST: Full 24-Hour Conversion Table

Shaded rows are working hours; the darker shade marks the hours when both zones are at work.

What EAT and IST Actually Are

EAT — East Africa Time

Nairobi, Addis Ababa, Dar es Salaam, Kampala, Mogadishu. Standing at UTC+3:00 as written, and the region does not change its clocks, so that offset holds all year.

East Africa Time is shared by a run of countries down the Rift Valley, and Ethiopia additionally keeps a traditional 12-hour clock that starts counting at dawn.

IST — India Standard Time

Mumbai, Delhi, Bengaluru, Chennai, Kolkata, Hyderabad — and Colombo. Standing at UTC+5:30 as written, and the region does not change its clocks, so that offset holds all year. IST also stands for Irish Standard Time (UTC+1) and Israel Standard Time (UTC+2). This page covers the Indian one, which is by far the most searched.

India runs a single time zone across a country wide enough for two, which is why sunrise in the north-east can come nearly two hours before Mumbai's. Proposals for a second zone resurface regularly and have never been adopted.

What This Means in Practice

Expect times on the half hour

IST sits on a 30-minute offset rather than a whole hour, so a round number on one side is never a round number on the other. A 9:00 meeting becomes 30 minutes past the hour, which is exactly the detail calendar invitations get wrong when someone converts in their head.

A gap you can rely on

Neither region changes its clocks, so this difference holds every day of the year. A recurring meeting booked once stays correct — worth knowing, because most cross-border pairs cannot say that.

Major Cities in Each Zone

Cities on EAT

Cities on IST