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. It's a single-zone region that perfectly mirrors Bhutan's unhurried approach to life. Living on this constant schedule means seamless planning across Thimphu and the rest of the country, whether for business meetings, school days, or the welcome that comes with avoiding daylight saving headaches.
Saturday, June 6, 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. It's a single-zone region that perfectly mirrors Bhutan's unhurried approach to life.
Living on this constant schedule means seamless planning across Thimphu and the rest of the country, whether for business meetings, school days, or the welcome that comes with avoiding daylight saving headaches.
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 currently on BHUTAN
The same hour, city by city.
1 city · all UTC+06:00
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.
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 following India's earlier UTC+05:30.
- 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?
- Since Bhutan only uses a single timezone year-round, its abbreviation is expressed as the numerical offset +06 rather than a named acronym.
- When did 'national time' replaced older standards in Bhutan?
- On October 1, 1987, Bhutan adopted its modern UTC+06:00 standard, shifting from an older informal practice of sometimes using local mean time or Indian Standard Time.
- Thimphu is in the same band as which countries?
- Bhutan shares its UTC+06:00 offset with Bangladesh, Kyrgyzstan (historically), and the Chagos Islands, though none of them share a border with Bhutan.
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