Gorakhpur in numbers
- Coordinates
- 21.8110, 79.6086
- Region
- Madhya Pradesh
- Country
- India, Asia
- Capital
- New Delhi — 796 km away
- Same name
- 47 more places in the world share this name
What time is it in Gorakhpur, Madhya Pradesh, India
The page gives the present local time in Gorakhpur, Madhya Pradesh, India, whose time zone is Asia/Kolkata (+5:30).
Gorakhpur, India
Sunday, 8 November 2026
UTC+5:30 · Asia/Kolkata
Local time in Gorakhpur
UTC+5:30 · no daylight saving time
Gorakhpur keeps Asia/Kolkata clock_time.
The sun today
Sunrise 6:20 AM Solar noon 11:56 AM Sunset 5:33 PM Daylight 11 h 13 min Night 12 h 47 min Civil twilight 5:57 AM – 5:56 PM
Weather in Gorakhpur right now
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Gorakhpur and its neighbours
Postal codes
- 125047
- 464774
- 480886
- 480887
- 481884
- 487110
- 495117
- 765015
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 Madhya Pradesh
Other places named Gorakhpur
- Gorakhpur Uttar Pradesh, India
- Gorakhpur Haryana, India
- Gorakhpur Maharashtra, India
- Gorakhpur Odisha, India
- Gorakhpur Punjab, Pakistan
Same time zone — Asia/Kolkata
Nearby places
- Rukhar — 10.8 km
- Kodajhiri — 12.7 km
- Chandadoh — 14.1 km
- Setewani — 14.1 km
- Raiyarav — 14.2 km
- Sitapatli — 14.4 km
Time and daylight in Gorakhpur
8 postal codes cover the territory of Gorakhpur.
Clocks in Gorakhpur follow Asia/Kolkata, an offset of UTC+5:30 from Coordinated Universal Time. Daylight saving time here: No.
Today the sun rises over Gorakhpur at 6:20 AM and sets at 5:33 PM. That is 11 h 13 min of daylight in all.
Neighbouring places Rukhar and Kodajhiri run on Gorakhpur time.
Questions and answers
- How should the time zone of Gorakhpur be stated?
- It should be stated as Asia/Kolkata, with an offset of +5:30.
- Does the time in Gorakhpur shift by an hour at any point in the year?
- No.
- I need the sunrise and sunset times for Gorakhpur.
- They are 6:20 AM and 5:33 PM.