Achankulam in numbers
- Coordinates
- 9.4045, 77.5768
- Region
- Tamil Nadu
- Country
- India, Asia
- Capital
- New Delhi — 2139 km away
What time is it in Achankulam, Tamil Nadu, India
The reading below is the local time in Achankulam, Tamil Nadu, India, taken from the Asia/Kolkata zone (+5:30).
Achankulam, India
Sunday, 18 October 2026
UTC+5:30 · Asia/Kolkata
Local time in Achankulam
UTC+5:30 · no daylight saving time
What the clock shows right now in Achankulam.
The sun today
Sunrise 6:09 AM Solar noon 12:06 PM Sunset 6:03 PM Daylight 11 h 54 min Night 12 h 06 min Civil twilight 5:48 AM – 6:24 PM
Weather in Achankulam right now
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Achankulam and its neighbours
Postal codes
- 626141
- 628718
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 Tamil Nadu
- Chennai 4 681 087
- Coimbatore 2 136 916
- Kallakurichi 1 682 687
- Madurai 1 465 625
- Tirunelveli 1 435 844
- Teni 1 034 724
Same time zone — Asia/Kolkata
Nearby places
- Chinnikulam — 16.2 km
- Sankaralingapuram — 16.4 km
- Vayali — 16.6 km
- Sevalkulam — 16.7 km
- Palvannanadhapuram — 16.8 km
- Kuvalaikkanni — 16.9 km
Time and daylight in Achankulam
Nearby Chinnikulam and Sankaralingapuram follow the same clock as Achankulam.
Achankulam spans 2 postal codes.
Achankulam uses the Asia/Kolkata time zone with a UTC+5:30 offset. Whether daylight saving time is used: No.
Sunrise today is 6:09 AM in Achankulam, with sunset at 6:03 PM. That works out to 11 h 54 min of light.
Questions and answers
- Does Achankulam use the Asia/Kolkata time zone?
- Yes, Achankulam uses Asia/Kolkata, with an offset of +5:30.
- Does Achankulam switch to summer time during the year?
- Daylight saving time observed in Achankulam: No.
- At what hour does the sun rise in Achankulam?
- At 6:09 AM.