Kota in numbers
- Coordinates
- 21.2599, 81.6007
- Region
- Chhattisgarh
- Country
- India, Asia
- Capital
- New Delhi — 931 km away
- Same name
- 112 more places in the world share this name
What time is it in Kota, Chhattisgarh, India
This page carries the current local time for Kota, Chhattisgarh, India, in the Asia/Kolkata time zone (+5:30).
Kota, India
Friday, 6 November 2026
UTC+5:30 · Asia/Kolkata
Local time in Kota
UTC+5:30 · no daylight saving time
What the clock shows right now in Kota.
The sun today
Sunrise 6:10 AM Solar noon 11:48 AM Sunset 5:27 PM Daylight 11 h 17 min Night 12 h 43 min Civil twilight 5:47 AM – 5:50 PM
Weather in Kota right now
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Kota and its neighbours
Postal codes
- 203408
- 204213
- 231207
- 247551
- 248124
- 322243
- 473551
- 486556
- 486666
- 533306
- 576221
- 584139
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 Chhattisgarh
Other places named Kota
- Kota Rajasthan, India
- Kōta Aichi, Japan
- Kotā Chhattisgarh, India
- Kota Uttar Pradesh, India
- Kota Khulna Division, Bangladesh
Same time zone — Asia/Kolkata
Nearby places
- Gaboud — 3.1 km
- Dhurrabhata — 3.1 km
- Raipur — 4.5 km
- Ghghar — 6.5 km
- Pachdeori — 9.0 km
- Kandarka — 9.4 km
Local time details for Kota
Time runs the same in Kota and in nearby Gaboud and Dhurrabhata.
Postal codes tied to Kota number 12.
Kota runs on Asia/Kolkata, which sits UTC+5:30 relative to Coordinated Universal Time. Daylight saving in effect: No.
Sun-up in Kota is 6:10 AM today and sun-down is 5:27 PM. That gap holds 11 h 17 min of daylight.
Questions and answers
- What is the correct time zone for Kota?
- The correct time zone for Kota is Asia/Kolkata, with an offset of +5:30.
- Does Kota run on daylight saving time for part of the year?
- Daylight saving in Kota: No.
- Which time marks sunset in Kota?
- 5:27 PM marks sunset.