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9–17 in Shanghai vs UTC
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About Shanghai
Home to roughly 24,281,400 residents, Shanghai is a sprawling megacity in China. Its terrain rests around 4 m of elevation.
Shanghai 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 subtropical belt, the city experiences a daylight pattern and seasonal arc characteristic of its latitude (31.23°).
China's currency is CNY and its calling prefix is +86. Whether you need to plan a meeting, check a flight, or feed an AI agent Shanghai's local time, the data on this page is delivered in both human and JSON form.
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Questions about time in Shanghai
The current local time in Shanghai, China is shown live at the top of this page, synchronized to atomic time to the millisecond.
Shanghai uses the IANA time zone Asia/Shanghai, currently UTC+8.
Whether Shanghai 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.
Shanghai is currently 12 hours ahead of New York.
Shanghai is currently 7 hours ahead of London.
Sunrise, sunset, solar noon, and civil/nautical/astronomical twilight times for Shanghai are listed in the Sun section above, computed from the city's coordinates (31.2304, 121.4737).
China uses the CNY currency and the +86 international dialing code.
Shanghai sits at 31.2304° N, 121.4737° E, 4 m above sea level, in China.