What time is it in Warangal, Telangana, India
Warangal keeps Indian Standard Time, UTC+5:30, every month. This page is civil time in Telangana, with sunrise, sunset, and the city’s weather.
Warangal, India
Wednesday, 28 October 2026
UTC+5:30 · Asia/Kolkata
Local time in Warangal
UTC+5:30 · no daylight saving time
The sun today
Sunrise 6:10 AM Solar noon 11:57 AM Sunset 5:43 PM Daylight 11 h 33 min Night 12 h 27 min Civil twilight 5:48 AM – 6:05 PM
Weather in Warangal right now
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Warangal and its neighbours
Postal codes
- 500044 New Nallakunta — 9.7 km away
- 506329 Chintalapalli — 9.9 km away
- 506303 Singarajpalli — 11.6 km away
- 506342 Akkampet — 12.1 km away
- 506331 Venkatapuram — 12.5 km away
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 Telangana
- Hyderabad 6 993 262
- Ramgundam 452 261
- Kukatpally 341 709
- Nizamabad 311 152
- Mulugu 297 671
- Karimnagar 289 821
Same time zone — Asia/Kolkata
Nearby places
- Girmajipet — 1.7 km
- Hanamkonda — 1.8 km
- Mathwada — 2.6 km
- Shaimpet — 2.8 km
- Vada — 3.3 km
- Kasibugga — 3.7 km
What time is it in Warangal
Warangal is a city in Telangana, India, inland on the Deccan rather than on the coast. It does not keep a Kakatiya hour, a district hour, or a municipal stamp of its own. Official clocks follow Indian Standard Time, five and a half hours ahead of Coordinated Universal Time, the same numerals Hyderabad, Bengaluru, and Kolkata already print. Telangana is not split. If a phone here and a phone in Hyderabad disagree, one of them is set wrong.
Software usually files the offset as Asia/Kolkata. The word Kolkata is a library tag for IST. It does not move a Warangal meeting onto the Hooghly, and it does not give this Deccan city a private file. A form that offers “India,” “IST,” or Hyderabad is offering the same UTC+5:30. India does not currently add a summer hour.
Read the live display for the current minute. Convert other countries through UTC+5:30 or through two clocks that are both live. Do not round the half hour to UTC+5 or UTC+6. Pakistan currently keeps UTC+5. Bangladesh currently keeps UTC+6. Sri Lanka currently matches this offset. “South India time” is not a legal stamp, and IST in other mail can mean Israel. Write the city, or write UTC+5:30.
Telangana on India’s half-hour stamp
Indian Standard Time is built on 82°30′E. Warangal lies a little west of that line, so the sun’s highest point arrives after twelve on the wall. Lunch at 12:00 is a civil habit. Solar noon over this Deccan city is a slightly later sky fact. Do not “correct” a calendar invite toward a courtyard shadow. Correct it toward UTC+5:30.
A ride toward Hyderabad changes traffic and the skyline. The half-hour stamp comes along for the ride. School bells, railway boards, and office diaries still run on IST. A trip toward Vijayawada or toward Nagpur is the same hour. A trip toward Dubai does not match: the Gulf is a whole-hour stamp. Name Warangal. “India time” is accurate for the hour and still too vague for this pin’s dawn.
Civil zone: IST at UTC+5:30, every month. Computer name: Asia/Kolkata — a national label, not a Bengal-only clock. Abbreviation trap: IST here is India Standard Time, not Israel. Sun and weather: computed for Warangal, not pasted from Hyderabad and not averaged across Telangana.
A 10:00 series in Warangal remains 10:00 in Warangal. Tag it Asia/Kolkata so only a foreign display leaps in March. Write “10:00 Warangal (IST, UTC+5:30)” when the audience is mixed. The pair travels better than an unexplained “India time,” and better than dropping the thirty minutes because the other desk thinks in whole hours.
A half-hour offset is India’s rule, not Warangal’s invention. Do not round it away because the other country likes whole hours.
Deccan light and a monsoon year
The sun figures on this page are calculated for Warangal’s coordinates on the chosen date. They are not a Telangana proclamation. The city sits in the tropics, so day length changes less than it does in Delhi and still changes: winter afternoons are a little shorter than summer ones. That is the sun on a fixed offset. It is not daylight saving. Do not file a June pair under a December train.
Calculated dawn is the instant the sun’s upper edge reaches an ideal horizon. Built skyline, pre-monsoon haze, and a monsoon sky can hide the disk from a street that geometry still calls “after sunrise.” Trust the table for that geometric minute. Trust the window for a visible rim. Do not paste a Hyderabad dawn onto this block because both cities sit in Telangana. Sharing a state is not sharing this pin’s skyline.
The sky column is Warangal’s, not a state average. An inland Deccan year — a hot dry stretch before the rains, a wet monsoon, and a milder dry season — can darken a noon without touching IST. Heat does not invent a second zone. Rain at 12:00 is still 12:00. The present temperature and sky belong to Warangal, not to a Hyderabad copy and not to a coastal Andhra paste. If a standing slot with Europe suddenly feels early, look at their change date, not at the fort walls.
Questions and answers
- What time zone is Warangal in?
- IST at UTC+5:30, every month. Computers usually file the city under Asia/Kolkata. The rest of India uses the same civil offset.
- Is Warangal the same time as Hyderabad?
- The wall matches. Sunrise minutes and this city’s rain do not. Keep IST; read sun and sky here.
- Does Warangal use daylight saving time?
- No. If the gap to Europe or North America shifts, they moved. Warangal stayed on UTC+5:30.