Sowcarpet in numbers
- Coordinates
- 13.0898, 80.2775
- Region
- Tamil Nadu
- Country
- India, Asia
- Capital
- New Delhi — 1757 km away
What time is it in Sowcarpet, Tamil Nadu, India
The reading below is the local time in Sowcarpet, Tamil Nadu, India, taken from the Asia/Kolkata zone (+5:30).
Sowcarpet, India
Thursday, 12 November 2026
UTC+5:30 · Asia/Kolkata
Local time in Sowcarpet
UTC+5:30 · no daylight saving time
What the clock shows right now in Sowcarpet.
The sun today
Sunrise 6:08 AM Solar noon 11:54 AM Sunset 5:41 PM Daylight 11 h 33 min Night 12 h 27 min Civil twilight 5:45 AM – 6:03 PM
Weather in Sowcarpet right now
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Sowcarpet and its neighbours
Postal codes
- 600001
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
- Chennai — 0.2 km
- Vepery — 1.2 km
- Sembiyam — 5.7 km
- Kodangiyur — 5.9 km
- Kuppam — 6.3 km
- Anna Nagar — 6.4 km
Local time details for Sowcarpet
Chennai and Vepery sit nearby and do not run ahead of or behind Sowcarpet.
Postal coverage of Sowcarpet comes to 1 codes.
Sowcarpet reads its time from Asia/Kolkata, placed at UTC+5:30. Whether daylight saving time is observed: No.
Today the day starts in Sowcarpet at 6:08 AM with sunrise and ends at 5:41 PM with sunset. Daylight lasts 11 h 33 min.
Questions and answers
- What time zone setting should I choose for Sowcarpet?
- Choose Asia/Kolkata for Sowcarpet, with an offset of +5:30.
- Does the time in Sowcarpet shift by an hour at any point in the year?
- No.
- How early in the evening does the sun set in Sowcarpet?
- It sets at 5:41 PM.