Current Time in Beijing

About Time in Beijing

China uses a single official time zone nationwide — Beijing Time, UTC+8 — despite the country spanning a longitude range that would naturally cover about five zones. See our history of world time zones for how that came to be.

Beijing shares its overlap pattern with the rest of coastal China: a strong match with other East Asian time zones, a narrow window with Europe, and almost none with the US. Use the Meeting Planner to find the exact hours.

• Country: China
• UTC offset: UTC+8
• Daylight saving: China observes no daylight saving time.

Quick Reference: Beijing Time at Common Meeting Hours

See what time it is in Beijing right now when it's 9:00 AM in each of these widely-used reference zones — handy for a quick sanity check before scheduling.