Rachapatnam in numbers
- Coordinates
- 16.5359, 81.2427
- Region
- Andhra Pradesh
- Country
- India, Asia
- Capital
- New Delhi — 1407 km away
What time is it in Rachapatnam, Andhra Pradesh, India
The reading below is the local time in Rachapatnam, Andhra Pradesh, India, taken from the Asia/Kolkata zone (+5:30).
Rachapatnam, India
Monday, 26 October 2026
UTC+5:30 · Asia/Kolkata
Local time in Rachapatnam
UTC+5:30 · no daylight saving time
Rachapatnam keeps Asia/Kolkata clock_time.
The sun today
Sunrise 6:01 AM Solar noon 11:50 AM Sunset 5:39 PM Daylight 11 h 37 min Night 12 h 23 min Civil twilight 5:39 AM – 6:01 PM
Weather in Rachapatnam right now
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Rachapatnam and its neighbours
Postal codes
- 521333 Varahapatnam — 1.4 km away
- 521344 Lodidalanka — 4.0 km away
Postal codes come from the free GeoNames dataset. Where a code is listed with a distance, it belongs to a nearby settlement — GeoNames spells that name differently from ours.
Largest cities in Andhra Pradesh
- Rasapudipalem 1 728 128
- Vijayawada 1 143 232
- Visakhapatnam 1 063 178
- Guntur 670 073
- Nellore 547 621
- Kurnool 460 184
Same time zone — Asia/Kolkata
Nearby places
- Ayodyapuram — 2.6 km
- Gopālapuram — 3.3 km
- Venkatāpuram — 3.8 km
- Korukollu — 4.1 km
- Tamarakollu — 4.1 km
- Sanarudravaram — 5.4 km
Local time details for Rachapatnam
Sun-up in Rachapatnam is 6:01 AM today and sun-down is 5:39 PM. That gap holds 11 h 37 min of daylight.
The time given for Rachapatnam holds for nearby Ayodyapuram and Gopālapuram too.
Addressing within Rachapatnam draws on 2 postal codes.
Rachapatnam keeps time under Asia/Kolkata. That places it at UTC+5:30, with daylight saving time No.
Questions and answers
- Is the local time in Rachapatnam based on Asia/Kolkata?
- Yes, local time in Rachapatnam is based on Asia/Kolkata, with an offset of +5:30.
- Will the time in Rachapatnam move forward or back for daylight saving?
- Daylight saving time in Rachapatnam: No.
- Sunset in Rachapatnam is at what time?
- At 5:39 PM.