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.
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.
Sunrise and sunset in Beijing
At 39.9° north, Beijing gets 15 h 00 min of daylight around the June solstice but only 9 h 20 min around the December solstice — a difference of 5 h 40 min.
| Date | Sunrise | Solar noon | Sunset | Daylight |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 21 January | 07:32 | 12:26 | 17:20 | 9 h 48 min |
| 21 February | 07:01 | 12:29 | 17:57 | 10 h 56 min |
| 21 March | 06:18 | 12:23 | 18:27 | 12 h 09 min |
| 21 April | 05:29 | 12:14 | 18:58 | 13 h 29 min |
| 21 May | 04:56 | 12:12 | 19:28 | 14 h 32 min |
| 21 June | 04:47 | 12:17 | 19:47 | 15 h 00 min |
| 21 July | 05:03 | 12:21 | 19:39 | 14 h 36 min |
| 21 August | 05:32 | 12:19 | 19:05 | 13 h 33 min |
| 21 September | 06:01 | 12:09 | 18:16 | 12 h 15 min |
| 21 October | 06:31 | 12:00 | 17:28 | 10 h 57 min |
| 21 November | 07:06 | 12:01 | 16:56 | 9 h 49 min |
| 21 December | 07:33 | 12:13 | 16:53 | 9 h 20 min |
Calculated for Beijing (39.90°, 116.41°; coordinates from Wikidata) with the standard solar-position formulas used by NOAA, for a sea-level horizon. Results are accurate to about a minute; hills, buildings and altitude shift what you actually see. Times change by only a minute or two from year to year.
Daylight saving time in China (Asia/Shanghai)
China does not change its clocks in the Asia/Shanghai zone: it stays on CST (UTC+8) all year in 2026 and 2027.
Dates come from the IANA time zone database as bundled at build time. Governments occasionally change their rules at short notice.