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9–17 in Taipei vs UTC
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About Taipei
Home to roughly 2,646,204 residents, Taipei is a populous capital of commerce in Taiwan. The city sits at 9 m above sea level, close to sea level, with maritime influence on its weather.
Taipei keeps time on the Asia/Taipei 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 (25.03°).
Taiwan's currency is TWD and its calling prefix is +886. Whether you need to plan a meeting, check a flight, or feed an AI agent Taipei's local time, the data on this page is delivered in both human and JSON form.
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Questions about time in Taipei
The current local time in Taipei, Taiwan is shown live at the top of this page, synchronized to atomic time to the millisecond.
Taipei uses the IANA time zone Asia/Taipei, currently UTC+8.
Whether Taipei observes daylight saving time and the date of the next clock change are shown in the Timezone block above. The IANA database (Asia/Taipei) is the source of truth.
Taipei is currently 12 hours ahead of New York.
Taipei is currently 7 hours ahead of London.
Sunrise, sunset, solar noon, and civil/nautical/astronomical twilight times for Taipei are listed in the Sun section above, computed from the city's coordinates (25.0330, 121.5654).
Taiwan uses the TWD currency and the +886 international dialing code.
Taipei sits at 25.0330° N, 121.5654° E, 9 m above sea level, in Taiwan.