China AsiaChina Current Local Time & Date, Time Zone and Time Difference

2 Time ZonesUTC+6 ... UTC+8

A beautiful, stylish variant of the world map - the dotted world map - in which China is highlighted by a large blue dot.
A beautiful, stylish variant of the world map - the dotted world map - in which China is highlighted by a large blue dot.

How many time zones does China have?

China has 2 time zones and a time difference from UTC+6 to UTC+8.

2 Time Zones

Major Cities in China

location_onShanghai 24,874,500 People
location_onBeijing 18,960,744 People
location_onShenzhen (Guangdong) 17,494,398 People
location_onGuangzhou (Guangdong) 16,096,724 People
location_onChengdu (Sichuan) 13,568,357 People
location_onTianjin 11,090,314 People
location_onWuhan (Hubei) 10,392,693 People
location_onDongguan (Guangdong) 9,644,871 People
location_onXi’an (Shaanxi) 9,600,000 People
location_onNanjing (Jiangsu) 9,314,685 People
location_onHangzhou (Zhejiang) 9,236,032 People
location_onFoshan (Guangdong) 9,042,509 People
location_onChongqing 7,457,599 People
location_onWuzhong (Ningxia) 7,202,654 People
location_onQingdao (Shandong) 7,172,451 People
location_onShenyang (Liaoning) 7,050,000 People
location_onSuzhou (Jiangsu) 6,715,559 People
location_onPudong (Shanghai) 5,681,512 People
location_onHarbin (Heilongjiang) 5,242,897 People
location_onHefei (Anhui) 5,050,000 People
location_onDalian (Liaoning) 4,913,879 People
location_onChangchun (Jilin) 4,714,996 People
location_onXiamen (Fujian) 4,617,251 People
location_onBao'an (Guangdong) 4,476,554 People
location_onWuxi (Jiangsu) 4,396,835 People
location_onJinan (Shandong) 4,335,989 People
location_onTaiyuan (Shanxi) 4,303,673 People
location_onZhengzhou (Henan) 4,253,913 People
location_onShijiazhuang (Hebei) 3,938,513 People
location_onKunming (Yunnan) 3,855,346 People
location_onZhongshan (Guangdong) 3,841,873 People
location_onNanning (Guangxi) 3,839,800 People
location_onShantou (Guangdong) 3,838,900 People
location_onFuzhou (Fujian) 3,740,000 People
location_onNingbo (Zhejiang) 3,731,203 People
location_onPuyang (Zhejiang) 3,590,000 People
location_onShiyan (Hubei) 3,460,000 People
location_onTangshan (Hebei) 3,372,102 People
location_onLüliang (Shanxi) 3,346,500 People
location_onChangzhou (Jiangsu) 3,290,918 People
location_onZibo (Shandong) 3,129,228 People
location_onChangsha (Hunan) 3,093,980 People
location_onGuiyang (Guizhou) 3,037,159 People
location_onÜrümqi (Xinjiang) 3,029,372 People
location_onLanzhou (Gansu) 3,000,000 People
location_onHuizhou (Guangdong) 2,900,113 People
location_onHaikou (Hainan) 2,873,358 People
location_onLinyi (Shandong) 2,743,843 People
location_onBaoding (Hebei) 2,739,887 People
location_onMinhang (Shanghai) 2,716,600 People
location_onBazhong (Sichuan) 2,712,894 People

Time Zones (2)

Time Zone
Universal Time Coordinated
Current local time Major Cities in Time Zone
Asia/
Urumqi

UTC+6
8:14 am location_onÜrümqi location_onShihezi location_onKorla
Asia/
Shanghai

UTC+8
10:14 am location_onShanghai location_onBeijing location_onShenzhen

China on the world map

A beautiful, stylish variant of the world map - the dotted world map - in which China is highlighted by a large blue dot.

A beautiful, stylish variant of the world map - the dotted world map - in which is highlighted by a large blue dot.

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China is located in Asia and it's capital city of Beijing. Since 1949 China has had one standard time zone which is GMT+8. On the Chinese mainland the time zone is known as Beijing Time but each of the former kingdoms (such as Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan) make reference to their time zones under their own names, e.g, Macau Standard Time or Hong Kong Time. GMT+6 is also unofficially used in Tibet and Xinjiang.

States in China

Neighbouring Countries