Time-zone overlap, Ahmedabad IST vs CET, daily standup window

Real, daily, 3.5-4.5 hours of working overlap:

• India Standard Time = UTC+5:30
• Spain (mainland) = UTC+1 (CET, winter) or UTC+2 (CEST, summer)
• Overlap window: 12:30 PM, 5 PM IST = 9 AM, 1:30 PM CET (winter) or 9:30 AM, 2 PM CEST (summer).
• Canary Islands run on WET (UTC+0), adds an extra hour of overlap on Tenerife / Las Palmas projects.

This covers your Madrid / Barcelona morning standup, mid-morning review, and a clean lunchtime hand-off to async. Daily 4 PM CET review on staging is the typical cadence. Spanish merchants often work the long lunch (2 PM, 4 PM) plus late-day session (5 PM, 8 PM), we can flex 2-3 days/week to overlap the late session at the cost of a late evening from our end. Slack / WhatsApp async covers the rest. We’ve worked this way with Madrid, Barcelona, Valencia, Bilbao, and Sevilla clients for years.