Time in all of China is officially set to Beijing time, which is eight hours ahead of Greenwich Mean Time (GMT+8). However, since China takes up a large piece of longitude, people in the western regions of Xinjiang and Tibet adjust their schedules a couple hours earlier according to the sun.
Unlike western countries, China does not follow the daylight saving time.
The following are some examples of time differences with other major cities in the world. Noon in Beijing means it's:
|
City |
Time |
City |
Time |
City |
Time |
|
Baghdad |
06:00 |
Helsinki |
06:00 |
Pyongyang |
13:00 |
|
Bangkok |
11:00 |
Ho Chi Minh City |
11:00 |
Rangoon |
10:00 |
|
Berlin |
05:30 |
Honolulu |
18:00 |
Rio de Janeiro |
01:00 |
|
Berne |
05:00 |
Irkutsk |
12:00 |
Rome |
05:30 |
|
Bombay |
09:30 |
Jakarta |
11:30 |
Rwanda |
05:00 |
|
Brussels |
04:00 |
Karachi |
09:00 |
San Francisco |
20:00 |
|
Bucharest |
06:00 |
Khartoum |
06:00 |
Santiago |
24:00 |
|
Budapest |
05:00 |
Kuala Lumpur |
11:30 |
Seoul |
13:00 |
|
Buenos Aires |
01:00 |
Leningrad |
07:00 |
Singapore |
11:30 |
|
Cairo |
06:00 |
Lisbon |
04:00 |
Sofia |
06:00 |
|
Calcutta |
09:00 |
London |
04:00 |
Stockholm |
05:00 |
|
Cape Town |
06:00 |
Manila |
12:00 |
Surabaya |
11:30 |
|
Casablanca |
04:00 |
Melbourne |
14:00 |
Sydney |
14:00 |
|
Colombo |
09:30 |
Mexico City |
21:00 |
Teheran |
06:00 |
|
Conakry |
04:00 |
Montreal |
23:00 |
Tirana |
05:00 |
|
Copenhagen |
05:00 |
Moscow |
07:00 |
Tokyo |
13:00 |
|
Damascus |
06:00 |
New Delhi |
09:30 |
Tunisia |
05:00 |
|
Geneva |
05:00 |
New York |
23:00 |
Vancouver |
20:00 |
|
Guatemala City |
22:00 |
Osaka |
13:00 |
Vienna |
05:00 |
|
Haiphong |
11:00 |
Panama City |
23:00 |
Warsaw |
05:00 |
|
Hanoi |
11:00 |
Paris |
04:00 |
Washington |
23:00 |
|
Havana |
23:00 |
Prague |
05:00 |
Wellington |
16:00 | |
