Beijing time
Beijing, China
About time in Beijing
Use this Beijing clock to check China Standard Time directly in your browser.
Beijing uses China Standard Time (UTC+8) throughout the year. This page formats the live display with the IANA timezone Asia/Shanghai.
China Standard Time does not observe daylight saving time.
Use it for a clear China-time reference beside Hong Kong, Tokyo, or Seoul. Check the live date as well as the hour when locations may be on different calendar days.
Working across timezones
Beijing shares UTC+8 with Hong Kong, Singapore, and Manila, with Tokyo and Seoul one hour ahead. Its afternoon provides some overlap with Europe, while North American coordination often requires an early or late slot. China uses one national standard time despite its geographic width.
Beijing does not change clocks, so differences from most nearby Asian cities remain steady. Comparisons with Europe, North America, New Zealand, and southeastern Australia can still change when those regions enter or leave daylight saving time.
Beijing: Courtyards, Culture, and a Changing Capital
Beijing’s long history remains visible in its central axis, imperial sites, temples, and traditional courtyard neighborhoods. Around them, broad avenues, universities, research institutes, technology districts, galleries, parks, and residential communities form a much larger modern capital. Seasonal changes are easy to notice, from spring blossoms and hot summers to crisp autumn skies and cold winters. Food, conversation, exercise in public parks, and family gatherings give daily life a human scale, even within a city known for national institutions and monumental architecture.
Business-hours examples are orientation for ordinary weekday coordination, not a promise that a person, office, market, school, or public service will be available. Local holidays, flexible schedules, religious observances, remote-work policies, and individual routines can all change the useful overlap, so confirm the participants’ availability before fixing an important event.
Timezone rules are maintained outside this site and can change through government decisions or browser timezone-data updates. Timer on Screen formats the selected IANA timezone with the data available in the current browser. For travel, broadcasts, deadlines, or other consequential plans, verify the final date and time with the organizer or another authoritative source.