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9–17 in Guangzhou vs UTC
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- 六一儿童节1 Jun 2026
- 端午节19 Jun 2026
- 建军节1 Aug 2026
- 中秋节25 Sept 2026
- 国庆节1 Oct 2026
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About Guangzhou
Home to roughly 13,080,500 residents, Guangzhou is a sprawling megacity in China. Its terrain rests around 21 m of elevation.
Guangzhou keeps time on the Asia/Shanghai IANA zone, an identifier the system uses to handle every historical and future offset change without ambiguity. The tropical, northern-hemisphere setting at 23.13° latitude defines its day-length swing across the year — long summer evenings and shorter winter days.
Visitors will find prices listed in CNY; phones reach China via the +86 country code. This page exposes Guangzhou's exact local time alongside sunrise, sunset, public holidays, and a structured-data feed at the JSON link below — useful for spreadsheets, scheduling tools, and AI assistants alike.
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Questions about time in Guangzhou
The current local time in Guangzhou, China is shown live at the top of this page, synchronized to atomic time to the millisecond.
Guangzhou uses the IANA time zone Asia/Shanghai, currently UTC+8.
Whether Guangzhou 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.
Guangzhou is currently 12 hours ahead of New York.
Guangzhou is currently 7 hours ahead of London.
Sunrise, sunset, solar noon, and civil/nautical/astronomical twilight times for Guangzhou are listed in the Sun section above, computed from the city's coordinates (23.1291, 113.2644).
China uses the CNY currency and the +86 international dialing code.
Guangzhou sits at 23.1291° N, 113.2644° E, 21 m above sea level, in China.