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Best Meeting Time: Chennai & New York

Chennai is currently 9 hours 30 minutes ahead of New York (this can shift with daylight saving time). Chennai and New York have no standard working-hours overlap — one side will always be outside 9am–6pm. ClockAlign helps you rotate meeting times fairly or decide when to go async instead.

🇮🇳 Chennai, India
GMT+5:30 · Asia/Kolkata
🇺🇸 New York, United States of America
EDT · America/New_York

Use the interactive finder below to compare local times, golden windows, and sacrifice scores for this city pair. Timezone offsets use current daylight-saving rules, so always confirm the final date before sending calendar invites.

Sources: IANA Time Zone Database · CDC/NIOSH fatigue and work guidance

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When is everyone actually sharp?

Add your team across time zones. ClockAlign maps each person’s energy through the day and finds the fairest, sharpest time to meet — not just when everyone’s awake.

Your team · 2 people
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Chennai
🇮🇳Chennai · GMT+5:30
NY
New York
🇺🇸New York · EDT
Team energy across the day · times in UTC
AsleepGroggyAwakeGolden
00:0006:0012:0018:0024:00
Chennai5:45 PM GMT+5:30
New York8:15 AM EDT
12:15 UTC
Drag anywhere on the timeline to test a meeting time · the glow marks the best window
Best times to meet
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12:15UTC
4Worst sacrifice
89%Fairness
2Teammates
CChennai5:45 PM GMT+5:30Sharp3
NYNew York8:15 AM EDTAwake4