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9–17 in Shenzhen vs UTC
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- 元旦1 Jan 2027
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About Shenzhen
Home to roughly 12,356,820 residents, Shenzhen is a sprawling megacity in China. The city sits at 0 m above sea level, close to sea level, with maritime influence on its weather.
For computers and clocks, Shenzhen is anchored to the Asia/Shanghai time zone, which encodes the city's daylight saving rules going back to the early 20th century. Lying in the northern hemisphere within the tropical belt, the city experiences a daylight pattern and seasonal arc characteristic of its latitude (22.54°).
Visitors will find prices listed in CNY; phones reach China via the +86 country code. Beyond the live clock, every datapoint on this page — sun events, holidays, time-zone offsets — is also available as machine-readable JSON, ready for agents and integrations.
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Questions about time in Shenzhen
The current local time in Shenzhen, China is shown live at the top of this page, synchronized to atomic time to the millisecond.
Shenzhen uses the IANA time zone Asia/Shanghai, currently UTC+8.
Whether Shenzhen 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.
Shenzhen is currently 13 hours ahead of New York.
Shenzhen is currently 8 hours ahead of London.
Sunrise, sunset, solar noon, and civil/nautical/astronomical twilight times for Shenzhen are listed in the Sun section above, computed from the city's coordinates (22.5431, 114.0579).
China uses the CNY currency and the +86 international dialing code.
Shenzhen sits at 22.5431° N, 114.0579° E, 0 m above sea level, in China.