Current local time in China
Current time in China
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Asia/Shanghai · UTC+8
China runs on China Standard Time (CST), a fixed UTC+8 offset. Clocks are never moved for daylight saving here, so the gap to UTC is identical in January and July. China spans five geographic time zones but keeps one official clock nationwide, so the sun comes up in Kashgar hours after it does in Beijing on the same wall time. The clock above reads the Asia/Shanghai zone directly and is accurate to the second.
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Time zone facts
- Standard time
- China Standard Time (CST), UTC+8
- Daylight saving
- Not observed; the offset is the same all year
- IANA timezone
- Asia/Shanghai
Common questions
- What time is it in China right now?
- The clock at the top of this page shows the current time in China, updated every second, with today's date and the day of the week beneath it. Because China is always UTC+8, the reading is UTC shifted by that fixed amount.
- What is the UTC offset in China?
- UTC+8, all year: China Standard Time, abbreviated CST. There is no summer variant to remember.
- Does China observe daylight saving time?
- No. China stays on China Standard Time (UTC+8) throughout the year, so the offset to UTC never moves.
- What is the IANA timezone for China?
- Asia/Shanghai. That is the identifier to use in code (a database column, a cron schedule, an Intl.DateTimeFormat call), because it carries the full history of offset and daylight-saving changes for China rather than one fixed number.