UTC+5:30 is an identifier for a time offset from UTC of +05:30.

This time is used in India[1] and Sri Lanka,[2] and was formerly used in Nepal, Pakistan and Bangladesh.

[3] It is five and a half hours ahead of Coordinated Universal Time.

Around 1.4 billion people live inside this time zone, making it the second-most populous after UTC+08:00.

[4] Principal cities: Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai, Kolkata, Bengaluru, Hyderabad, Kochi, Ahmedabad, Pune, Jaipur, Kanpur, Lucknow, Indore, Coimbatore, Prayagraj, Guwahati, Srinagar, Madurai, Mysore, Ludhiana, Visakhapatnam, Patna, Varanasi, Bhubaneswar, Puducherry, Port Blair, Colombo, Jaffna, Trincomalee, Kandy