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5:30 pm17:30 IST (UTC+5:30), Oct 18, 2026 = 8:00 pm20:00 CST (UTC+8), Oct 18, 2026

IST is 2 hours and 30 minutes behind New Taipei City.

How the time difference changes

IST is 2 hours and 30 minutes behind New Taipei City year-round.

Working hours of 9:00 am to 6:00 pm in IST correspond to 11:30 am to 8:30 pm in New Taipei City.Working hours of 09:00 to 18:00 in IST correspond to 11:30 to 20:30 in New Taipei City.

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

Time Difference

India Standard Time is 2 hours and 30 minutes behind CST (Taiwan Standard Time).
5:30 pm17:30 in IST is 8:00 pm20:00 in New Taipei City, Taiwan

IST to New Taipei City call time
Best time for a conference call or a meeting is between 9am-3:30pm09:00-15:30 in IST which corresponds to 11:30am-6pm11:30-18:00 in New Taipei City

5:30 pm17:30 India Standard Time (IST). Offset UTC +5:30 hours
8:00 pm20:00 CST (Taiwan Standard Time) (New Taipei City, Taiwan). Offset UTC +8:00 hours

5:30 pm17:30 IST / 8:00 pm20:00 New Taipei City, Taiwan

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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

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

New Taipei City Time Zone and Facts

Time Zone

Abbreviation / Offset
CST – Taiwan Standard Time, UTC+8 (no daylight saving time)

New Taipei City Facts

Country
Taiwan
Population
4,004,367
Currency
Dollar (TWD)
Geographic Coordinates
25° 03' N Latitude / 121° 27' E Longitude
International Dialing Code
+886