Live clocks for every China city — UTC offsets, DST status, and inter-city time gaps.
China Standard Time (CST, UTC+8) covers the entire mainland from Xinjiang in the far west to Shanghai in the east — an unusually wide east-west span for a single timezone (about ~3,000 miles). No DST. This means summer sunrise in western Xinjiang can be as late as 10 AM local clock time. Business hours 9 AM - 6 PM in coastal cities, often "996" (9 AM - 9 PM, 6 days a week) at large tech firms.
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.
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Time differences may shift seasonally when cities observe different daylight saving schedules.
Timezones, DST rules, and scheduling in China
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