Best overlap: 8:00 AM to 3:00 PM in Barcelona is 11:30 AM to 6:30 PM in Kolkata.
The best time to meet is 8:00 AM to 3:00 PM in Barcelona, which is 11:30 AM to 6:30 PM in Kolkata. Kolkata is 3.5 hours ahead of Barcelona, yet you get a full 7 hours of shared hours — enough to schedule around lunches, focus time, and preferences with ease. One seasonal catch: Barcelona springs forward and falls back, but Kolkata doesn't, so the gap changes by an hour for several months of the year.
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