IST to EET: IST is 2 hours 30 minutes ahead of EET
India Standard Time is 2 hours 30 minutes ahead of Eastern European Time right now. It is 11:48 am IST in India and 9:18 am EEST in Eastern European.
Convert a specific time from IST to EET
Pick any time and date to convert it both ways. The conversion runs in your browser against the real zone rules, so a date inside a daylight saving period gets that period's offset rather than today's.
What is the time difference between IST and EET?
Eastern European Time is 2 hours 30 minutes behind India Standard Time. To go from IST to EET you subtract 2 hours 30 minutes. That gap is not fixed. Across 2026 the distance between these two zones takes 2 different values, from 2 hours 30 minutes to 3 hours 30 minutes, because Eastern European moves its clocks and India does not. This page recomputes it rather than assuming.
IST to EET conversion table
Every hour of Friday, September 25, 2026 in India, with the matching reading in Eastern European. 3 of the 24 hours land on a different calendar date in Eastern European, which is the part people get wrong when they schedule across this pair.
| IST | IST 24h | EET | EET 24h | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12:00 am | 00:00 | 9:30 pm | 21:30 | the previous day |
| 1:00 am | 01:00 | 10:30 pm | 22:30 | the previous day |
| 2:00 am | 02:00 | 11:30 pm | 23:30 | the previous day |
| 3:00 am | 03:00 | 12:30 am | 00:30 | same day |
| 4:00 am | 04:00 | 1:30 am | 01:30 | same day |
| 5:00 am | 05:00 | 2:30 am | 02:30 | same day |
| 6:00 am | 06:00 | 3:30 am | 03:30 | same day |
| 7:00 am | 07:00 | 4:30 am | 04:30 | same day |
| 8:00 am | 08:00 | 5:30 am | 05:30 | same day |
| 9:00 am | 09:00 | 6:30 am | 06:30 | same day |
| 10:00 am | 10:00 | 7:30 am | 07:30 | same day |
| 11:00 am | 11:00 | 8:30 am | 08:30 | same day |
| 12:00 pm | 12:00 | 9:30 am | 09:30 | same day |
| 1:00 pm | 13:00 | 10:30 am | 10:30 | same day |
| 2:00 pm | 14:00 | 11:30 am | 11:30 | same day |
| 3:00 pm | 15:00 | 12:30 pm | 12:30 | same day |
| 4:00 pm | 16:00 | 1:30 pm | 13:30 | same day |
| 5:00 pm | 17:00 | 2:30 pm | 14:30 | same day |
| 6:00 pm | 18:00 | 3:30 pm | 15:30 | same day |
| 7:00 pm | 19:00 | 4:30 pm | 16:30 | same day |
| 8:00 pm | 20:00 | 5:30 pm | 17:30 | same day |
| 9:00 pm | 21:00 | 6:30 pm | 18:30 | same day |
| 10:00 pm | 22:00 | 7:30 pm | 19:30 | same day |
| 11:00 pm | 23:00 | 8:30 pm | 20:30 | same day |
What are the best hours to schedule a call between IST and EET?
5 hours of the standard 9:00 am to 5:00 pm working day line up in both zones, from 12:00 pm IST to 5:00 pm IST. In Eastern European that window reads 9:30 am to 2:30 pm. Outside it, one side is either not yet at their desk or already gone.
| IST | EET | Working hours | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
| 12:00 pm | 9:30 am | both sides | noon in India, mid morning in Eastern European |
| 1:00 pm | 10:30 am | both sides | afternoon in India, mid morning in Eastern European |
| 2:00 pm | 11:30 am | both sides | afternoon in India, mid morning in Eastern European |
| 3:00 pm | 12:30 pm | both sides | afternoon in India, noon in Eastern European |
| 4:00 pm | 1:30 pm | both sides | afternoon in India, afternoon in Eastern European |
Does daylight saving change IST to EET?
India Standard Time does not move its clocks at all, so its UTC+5:30 offset holds every day of the year.
Eastern European Time is currently on EEST and changes next on Sunday, October 25, 2026, when the clock falls back from 3:59 am to 3:00 am and the offset moves from UTC+3 to UTC+2.
Because the two sides do not move together, the answer to this conversion changes during the year. For part of the year the gap is 2 hours 30 minutes and for the rest it is 3 hours 30 minutes. The table above is built for today, not for an average day.
Is IST ahead of or behind EET?
IST is ahead of EET by 2 hours 30 minutes: when it is 12:00 pm in India, it is 9:30 am in Eastern European. One wrinkle worth knowing: EET and EEST are two names for the same zone, not two zones. Eastern European Time reads EET in winter and EEST in summer. When somebody types "ist to eet" they nearly always mean the zone rather than the literal winter offset, so this page resolves IST to Asia/Kolkata and EET to Europe/Athens and applies whichever offset is genuinely in force on the day.
India Standard Time covers the whole of India on a single half hour offset. Eastern European Time covers Athens, Helsinki, Bucharest and Kyiv. The identifiers behind them are Asia/Kolkata and Europe/Athens, which is what any calendar or scheduling system should be storing rather than a fixed number of hours.
Questions
- What is IST in EET?
- IST is 2 hours 30 minutes ahead of EET. 9:00 am IST is 6:30 am EET.
- How many hours ahead is EET of IST?
- EET is 2 hours 30 minutes behind IST. That varies across the year, between 2 hours 30 minutes and 3 hours 30 minutes.
- What time is it in Eastern European right now?
- 9:18 am EEST on Friday, September 25, 2026.
- When can India and Eastern European meet during working hours?
- Between 12:00 pm and 5:00 pm IST, which is 9:30 am to 2:30 pm EET.
- Does this account for daylight saving?
- Yes. Every reading is computed from the IANA database for the actual date, so IST and EEST are the abbreviations genuinely in force today rather than a fixed assumption.
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