BRT to IST Converter

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Brasilia Time
UTC−3
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India Standard Time
UTC+5:30
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9:00 am09:00 BRT (UTC-3), Oct 25, 2026 = 5:30 pm17:30 IST (UTC+5:30), Oct 25, 2026

BRT is 8 hours and 30 minutes behind IST.

BRT and IST examples

These examples always use BRT (UTC-3) and IST (UTC+5:30). They stay the same when you change the date or time above. The selected conversion may differ when daylight saving time applies.

BRT is 8 hours and 30 minutes behind IST.

How the time difference changes

BRT is 8 hours and 30 minutes behind IST year-round.

Working hours of 9:00 am to 6:00 pm in BRT correspond to 5:30 pm to 2:30 am (next day) in IST.Working hours of 09:00 to 18:00 in BRT correspond to 17:30 to 02:30 (next day) in IST.

Compare BRT time with IST time, including current local time, UTC offsets, time difference, daylight saving changes, working hours, and shareable meeting times.

Time Difference

Brasilia Time is 8 hours and 30 minutes behind India Standard Time.
9:00 am09:00 in BRT is 5:30 pm17:30 in IST

BRT to IST call time
Best time for a conference call or a meeting is between 9am-9:30am09:00-09:30 in BRT which corresponds to 5:30pm-6pm17:30-18:00 in IST

9:00 am09:00 Brasilia Time (BRT). Offset UTC -3:00 hours
5:30 pm17:30 India Standard Time (IST). Offset UTC +5:30 hours

9:00 am09:00 BRT / 5:30 pm17:30 IST

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Brasilia Time

Offset: BRT is 3 hours behind Greenwich Mean Time (GMT).

Countries using this time zone: Brazil

Principal Cities: The largest city in the BRT time zone is São Paulo in Brazil, with about 12.4 million people. Other major cities in this time zone include Rio de Janeiro, Belo Horizonte, Salvador, Fortaleza.

Daylight Saving: Clocks in Brasilia Time (BRT) do not change for daylight saving time, so BRT stays the same throughout the year. Other time zones may set clocks forward in summer and back in winter; see upcoming clock changes worldwide.

Map of the areas on Brasilia Time (BRT)
BRT all year

Open the world time zone map© OpenStreetMap

BRT representations, usage and related time zones

W3C/ISO-8601: International standard covering representation and exchange of dates and time-related data
  • -03 - basic short
  • -0300 - basic
  • -03:00 - extended
Email/RFC-2822: Internet Message Format Date Standard, typically used for timestamps in email headers
  • -0300 - sign character (-) followed by a four digit time providing hours (03) and minutes (00) of the offset. Indicates an offset of three hours to the west of the zero meridian.
Military/NATO: Used by the U.S. military, Chinese military and others
  • Papa - Military abbreviation for BRT
  • P - short form of 'Papa'
Time zones with the GMT -3 offset:
  • ADT - Atlantic Daylight Time
  • PMT - Pierre & Miquelon Standard Time
  • PMST - Pierre & Miquelon Standard Time
  • AMST - Amazon Summer Time
  • ART - Argentina Time
  • BRT - Brasilia Time
  • CLST - Chile Summer Time
  • FKST - Falkland Islands Summer Time
  • FKT - Falkland Islands Time
  • GFT - French Guiana Time
  • P - Papa Time Zone
  • PYST - Paraguay Summer Time
  • PYT - Paraguay Time
  • SRT - Suriname Time
  • UYT - Uruguay Time

India Standard Time

Offset: IST is 5 hours and 30 minutes ahead of Greenwich Mean Time (GMT).

Countries using this time zone: India

Principal Cities: The largest city in the IST time zone is Mumbai in India, with about 12.692 million people. Other major cities in this time zone include Delhi, Bengaluru, Hyderabad, Ahmedabad.

Daylight Saving: Clocks in India Standard Time (IST) do not change for daylight saving time, so IST stays the same throughout the year. Other time zones may set clocks forward in summer and back in winter; see upcoming clock changes worldwide.

Current time in India: India time now

Map of the areas on India Standard Time (IST)
IST all year

Open the world time zone map© OpenStreetMap

IST representations, usage and related time zones

W3C/ISO-8601: International standard covering representation and exchange of dates and time-related data
  • +0530 - basic
  • +05:30 - extended
Email/RFC-2822: Internet Message Format Date Standard, typically used for timestamps in email headers
  • +0530 - sign character (+) followed by a four digit time providing hours (05) and minutes (30) of the offset. Indicates an offset of five hours and thirty minutes to the east of the zero meridian.
IANA/Olson: Reflects IST time zone boundaries defined by political bodies, primarily intended for use with computer programs and operating systems
  • Asia/Calcutta
  • Asia/Kolkata
IST Abbreviation: Several time zones share IST abbreviation and it could refer to these time zones
  • India Standard Time - UTC +5:30
  • Irish Standard Time - UTC +1
  • Israel Standard Time - UTC +2
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