It is 5:16 pm in Indian/Cocos
Indian/Cocos is the IANA identifier for the time zone of Cocos in Cocos (Keeling) Islands. It is running at UTC+6:30 right now, with no letter abbreviation in common use, and the local date is Friday, September 25, 2026. The zone never moves its clocks.
What time is it in Indian/Cocos right now
5:16 pm on Friday, September 25, 2026, as this page was served, which in 24 hour form is 17:16. The clock above ticks on from there in your own browser. The offset is 6 hours and 30 minutes ahead of UTC. Half hour offsets catch out code that stores a zone as an integer number of hours, and they are the reason a UTC timestamp converted here lands on :30 or :00 depending on where it started.
1 other zone reads UTC+6:30 at this instant: Asia/Yangon. They agree on the clock now and need not agree in six months, because each one carries its own daylight saving rule.
The UTC offset of Indian/Cocos
An offset of UTC+6:30 names the meridian 97.5 degrees east, and West Island, Cocos (Keeling) Islands sits at 96.83 degrees east. Those are within 3 minutes of solar time of each other, so this is one of the zones whose clock genuinely matches its own sun.
Because this zone never moves its clocks, UTC+6:30 is the answer on every day of the year. That makes it an easy zone to schedule against, with the caveat that the other end of the call may still be moving its own clocks, so the gap between the two changes even though nothing changed here.
Daylight saving in Indian/Cocos
Indian/Cocos does not observe daylight saving. It sits at UTC+6:30 in January and reads UTC+6:30 again in July, so a gap worked out against it today is still right in six months. It has not moved its clocks in any year since 1970 that this page can see.
The database holds no clock change for Indian/Cocos in 2025, 2026 or 2027, so there is no transition table to print. The offset shown at the top of this page is the offset on every date in those three years.
How the offset of Indian/Cocos has changed since 1970
Read on 1 January and 1 July of each year, which is the cheapest pair of samples that shows both the winter offset and whether the clocks moved that summer. Nothing has changed: Indian/Cocos has been on the same pair of readings for all 57 years sampled. A rule change that began and ended between July and the following January is invisible to this sampling, so the table is a shape rather than a complete edit history.
| Years | 1 January | 1 July | Behaviour |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970 to 2026 | UTC+6:30 | UTC+6:30 | one offset all year |
No summer shift appears in any year sampled, so a piece of software that treats Indian/Cocos as a fixed offset happens to be right, and is right by luck rather than by design: the same assumption applied to a neighbouring zone breaks twice a year.
Countries and regions that use Indian/Cocos
One country uses Indian/Cocos: Cocos (Keeling) Islands, which keeps this as its only time zone and has a population of about 600.
Cities in the Indian/Cocos time zone
This site does not yet carry a city page inside Indian/Cocos, so the readings here are computed for the identifier itself and anchored at West Island, Cocos (Keeling) Islands. That costs nothing in accuracy: an offset is a property of the zone, not of a settlement, so the clock above is right for every point inside it. The city index lists the 6,338 places that do have their own page.
The sun against the clock in Indian/Cocos
Worked out for West Island, Cocos (Keeling) Islands, the capital of a country that keeps the zone, at 12.19 degrees south, 96.83 degrees east. The sun rises at 5:50 am and sets at 5:59 pm, giving 12 hours 8 minutes of daylight. Solar noon, the moment the sun is highest, falls at 11:54 am, which is 6 minutes before clock noon.
That gap is the whole argument about where zone lines belong, in one number. It is made of three things: West Island, Cocos (Keeling) Islands sitting 0.7 degrees west of the UTC+6:30 meridian, the equation of time, which today runs 8.2 minutes ahead of mean time, and no daylight saving at all, because this zone does not use it.
Convert Indian/Cocos to another time zone
The converter is keyed on the abbreviations people type rather than on identifiers. Indian/Cocos is at UTC+6:30 right now, the same reading as UTC, so these pages answer the same question for it today. They will diverge if the two zones ever adopt different daylight saving rules, which is exactly why the identifier is the thing worth storing.
Questions about Indian/Cocos
- What time is it in Indian/Cocos right now?
- 5:16 pm on Friday, September 25, 2026, as this page was served. The clock at the top of the page ticks on from there.
- What is the UTC offset of Indian/Cocos?
- UTC+6:30 at this instant, on every day of the year.
- Does Indian/Cocos observe daylight saving time?
- No. It stays at UTC+6:30 all year.
- What is the abbreviation for Indian/Cocos?
- There is no English letter abbreviation in common use for this zone, so it is written as its offset, UTC+6:30. That is what every other clock shows for it too.
- Which countries use Indian/Cocos?
- Cocos (Keeling) Islands.
- Why store Indian/Cocos instead of UTC+6:30?
- Because the offset is an output and the identifier is the input. This zone has one offset today and no guarantee of keeping it, and 1 other zone shares its current reading while carrying different rules. A record storing UTC+6:30 cannot tell them apart; a record storing
Indian/Cocoskeeps working through every future rule change.