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9–17 in Beijing vs UTC
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About Beijing
Home to roughly 21,540,000 residents, Beijing is a global metropolis in China. Its terrain rests around 44 m of elevation.
Beijing keeps time on the Asia/Shanghai IANA zone, an identifier the system uses to handle every historical and future offset change without ambiguity. Lying in the northern hemisphere within the temperate belt, the city experiences a daylight pattern and seasonal arc characteristic of its latitude (39.90°).
Locally, prices are quoted in CNY and the international dialing code is +86. Whether you need to plan a meeting, check a flight, or feed an AI agent Beijing's local time, the data on this page is delivered in both human and JSON form.
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Questions about time in Beijing
The current local time in Beijing, China is shown live at the top of this page, synchronized to atomic time to the millisecond.
Beijing uses the IANA time zone Asia/Shanghai, currently UTC+8.
Whether Beijing observes daylight saving time and the date of the next clock change are shown in the Timezone block above. The IANA database (Asia/Shanghai) is the source of truth.
Beijing is currently 12 hours ahead of New York.
Beijing is currently 7 hours ahead of London.
Sunrise, sunset, solar noon, and civil/nautical/astronomical twilight times for Beijing are listed in the Sun section above, computed from the city's coordinates (39.9042, 116.4074).
China uses the CNY currency and the +86 international dialing code.
Beijing sits at 39.9042° N, 116.4074° E, 44 m above sea level, in China.