Current Time in China (China Standard Time)

About China Standard Time (Beijing) (China Time)

China Standard Time is the single official time zone used across the entire country — Beijing Time, a fixed UTC+8 — despite China's landmass spanning a longitude range that would naturally cover about five geographic zones. Beijing, Shanghai, and every other Chinese city runs on the same clock.

Because there's no daylight saving and no regional variation, converting to or from China Standard Time is simpler than most zones — the UTC+8 offset never changes. See our history of world time zones for how China ended up with just one.

• UTC offset: UTC+8
• Daylight saving: China does not observe daylight saving time — it stays at a fixed UTC+8 all year.
• Common cities/regions: Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Chengdu