Check the current local time in Beijing, China. Beijing uses the Asia/Shanghai time zone, with CST (UTC +8:00) during standard time.
CST
UTC +8:00
Used outside daylight saving time
Not Observed
Year-round standard time
No DST change
Standard time year-round
No seasonal offset changes
Beijing runs on China Standard Time (CST, UTC+8), same offset as Shanghai and the entire mainland. Government and diplomatic hours align tightly (9 AM - 5 PM sharp for ministries); commercial hours mirror Shanghai. Same 12 h gap with US East Coast, 15-16 h gap with US West Coast as any Chinese city.
East Asia — China, Japan, Korea, Taiwan, Mongolia — sits mostly at UTC+8 (China's single-timezone policy across the whole country) or UTC+9 (Japan, Korea). None observe DST anymore (Japan ended its post-WW2 experiment in the 1950s), so offsets are fixed. The region's single-large-zone footprint makes cross-Asia coordination unusually easy compared to Europe or North America.
Beijing is located in China and uses the Asia/Shanghai time zone. For anyone coordinating calls or meetings internationally, the key question is rarely "what time is it" — it's which hours in Beijing overlap with your own working day. Use the world clock comparison further down the page to see at a glance how Beijing aligns with other major cities.
Scheduling tip: Always reference a city name in calendar invites rather than a fixed UTC offset. Calendar apps like Google Calendar and Outlook will automatically adjust for any clock changes on both ends, so your meeting stays at the intended local time for everyone involved.
These cities share the same time zone as Beijing — when it's 2:58:59 PM here, it's the same local time there.
Major cities in China — some may be in a different time zone than Beijing if the country spans multiple zones.
Find the perfect overlap time between your timezone and Beijing. Our calculator shows when business hours align.
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