Gorakhpur in numbers
- Coordinates
- 22.5602, 79.7428
- Region
- Madhya Pradesh
- Country
- India, Asia
- Capital
- New Delhi — 721 km away
- Same name
- 47 more places in the world share this name
What time is it in Gorakhpur, Madhya Pradesh, India
This page carries the current local time for Gorakhpur, Madhya Pradesh, India, in the Asia/Kolkata time zone (+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 5:32 PM Daylight 11 h 11 min Night 12 h 49 min Civil twilight 5:57 AM – 5:55 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
- Ghatpiparia — 1.7 km
- Gwari — 2.0 km
- Kutmeli — 3.4 km
- Jamanpani — 6.3 km
- Saidalpar — 6.7 km
- Jhalwani — 7.9 km
About the time in Gorakhpur
Gorakhpur sits in the Asia/Kolkata time zone, which runs at UTC+5:30. Daylight saving time: No.
Today in Gorakhpur, daylight opens at 6:20 AM and closes at 5:32 PM. That span measures 11 h 11 min.
The time in Gorakhpur is also the time in nearby Ghatpiparia and Gwari.
8 postal codes are attached to Gorakhpur.
Questions and answers
- What time zone is Gorakhpur in?
- Gorakhpur is in the Asia/Kolkata time zone, with an offset of +5:30.
- Do the clocks in Gorakhpur go back at any point?
- No.
- When does the sun go down in Gorakhpur?
- Sunset in Gorakhpur is at 5:32 PM.