Local time in China
People's Republic of China
Current local time in China — this country spans 2 time zones. The clocks below update live in your browser.
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Time difference — Beijing
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Differences are relative to Beijing, China, and account for daylight saving time right now.
Time zone information for China
- Standard label
- CST (UTC+8)
- Standard offset (Beijing)
- UTC+8
- Daylight saving time
- Not observed
- Number of time zones
- 2
- Capital
- Beijing
- IANA zones
- Asia/Shanghai, Asia/Urumqi
China uses CST (UTC+8) as its standard time across 2 IANA zones. Clocks stay on the same offset all year round — daylight saving time is not observed. Times on this page are computed in your browser from the IANA time zone database, so they always match the real current time in China.