Time zone · Asia
BHUTAN
Bhutan Time
Bhutan Time keeps things beautifully simple with a steady UTC+06:00 offset all year round — no clock changes, no confusion, and an easy 30-minute gap from neighboring Indian Standard Time. The whole country uses this one time zone.
Thursday, October 15, 2026
Current offset
UTC+06:00
Standard · +06
Daylight saving
Not observed
Year-round standard time
IANA zones
1
None observe daylight saving
DST offset
—
No summer variant
About BHUTAN
A fixed, year-round offset.
Bhutan Time keeps things beautifully simple with a steady UTC+06:00 offset all year round — no clock changes, no confusion, and an easy 30-minute gap from neighboring Indian Standard Time. The whole country uses this one time zone.
IANA zones · the technical identifiers
The zone that resolve to BHUTAN.
For software, always store the IANA identifier — never the abbreviation alone. The database keeps these zones distinct because their rules can, and historically did, diverge.
Cities across BHUTAN
Local time, city by city.
1 city
Where BHUTAN is used
One country.
Same offset · UTC+06:00
Other zones at UTC+06:00 right now.
These named zones share BHUTAN's offset today. When daylight saving rules differ, they drift apart for part of the year.
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BHUTAN to the world's clocks.
Frequently asked questions
Common questions about BHUTAN, daylight saving, and how to handle it in software. Can't find what you need? Email [email protected].
- Why is Bhutan Time set at UTC+06:00?
- When Bhutan adopted a unified national time in 1987, it chose UTC+06:00 to align more closely with the geographic longitude of its capital, Thimphu, rather than staying on UTC+05:30, the offset it had shared with India since 1947.
- Does Bhutan observe daylight saving time?
- No — Bhutan Time has never observed daylight saving, so the local time stays the same throughout the entire year.
- Is Bhutan Time the same as neighboring India?
- No — Bhutan Time is consistently 30 minutes ahead of India Standard Time, which sits at UTC+05:30.
- Why is it called +06 instead of an acronym?
- Time zone databases write Bhutan Time as +06 because there is no widely established letter abbreviation for it.
- When did Bhutan adopt its current standard time?
- On October 1, 1987, Bhutan adopted its modern UTC+06:00 standard, moving from UTC+05:30, which it had used since 1947.
- Thimphu is in the same band as which countries?
- Bhutan shares its UTC+06:00 offset with Bangladesh, Kyrgyzstan, and the Chagos Islands, though none of them share a border with Bhutan.
Source: IANA tzdb2026e · Reviewed
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