BeijingChina
Current time in Beijing, China
Friday, 25 September 2026
China Standard TimeUTC+08:00
⛶ Full-screen clockBeijing time at a glance
- Country
- China
- Location
- Capital city of China
- Time zone
Asia/Shanghai- UTC offset now
UTC+08:00- Current zone label
- GMT+8
- Next clock change
- No upcoming change available
Beijing time guide
Does Beijing change its clocks?
UTC+08:00.- Year-round offset
- China Standard Time, UTC+08:00
- Time-zone identifier
- Asia/Shanghai
- Beijing and London
- 8 hours ahead during GMT; 7 hours ahead during BST
- Beijing and New York
- 13 hours ahead of EST; 12 hours ahead of EDT
Urban core and municipality
Beijing municipality extends beyond the central city
Official Beijing population reporting covers the full municipality and distinguishes registered residents, permanent residents and migrants. That municipal jurisdiction includes urban, suburban and rural districts, so it is broader than the central built-up city.
Time-zone identity for Beijing
- IANA zone
Asia/Shanghai- UTC offset now
- UTC+08:00
- Current zone label
- GMT+8
- Clock-change status
- No UTC offset change was found in the next 370 days.
Beijing is currently 8 hours ahead of UTC. The named zone, rather than the offset alone, should be used for future dates.
Clock changes in Beijing
370-day checked horizon
No UTC offset change was found through Thursday, 30 September 2027 in runtime time-zone data 2026b.
Time-zone history
UTC offset changes for Beijing
A bounded record of offset transitions calculated for Asia/Shanghai, covering 2021 through 2031. Events are offset changes; their legal or daylight-saving cause is not inferred.
Previous 5 years
No UTC offset transition was found in the previous 5 years.
Next 5 years
No UTC offset transition was found in the next 5 years.
Dates are calculated from IANA time-zone rules. The calculation checks for offset changes throughout the displayed period and resolves each change to the nearest second.
Capital city context
About Beijing, capital of China
Beijing is the capital of China. This page combines its live local clock with location, time-zone, weather, Sun and Moon information.
- Capital status
- Capital of China
- Administrative area
- China
- Population
- 18,960,744
- Coordinates
- 39.9075° N, 116.3972° E. The elevation is 49 metres.
Nearby city clocks
Cities near Beijing
Nearby cities are ordered by approximate straight-line distance from Beijing. Times are calculated for the same instant shown above.
- DaxingBeijing, China20 km south
Asia/ShanghaiSame local time - TongzhouBeijing, China23 km east
Asia/ShanghaiSame local time - MentougouBeijing, China26 km west
Asia/ShanghaiSame local time - LiangxiangBeijing, China30 km southwest
Asia/ShanghaiSame local time - ShunyiBeijing, China32 km northeast
Asia/ShanghaiSame local time - ChangpingBeijing, China37 km north
Asia/ShanghaiSame local time
Sources for Beijing time and city facts
Time-zone calculations use runtime tzdb 2026b. Weather and astronomy sources include their own retrieval times where available.
View 4 sources
- GeoNames cities15000GeoNames · 2026-07-15_01-57-51-849 · CC BY 4.0 · AccessedCity and country names, administrative area, coordinates and population.
- IANA Time Zone DatabaseInternet Assigned Numbers Authority · 2026b · Public domain · AccessedTime-zone names, UTC offsets and clock changes.
- Unicode Common Locale Data RepositoryUnicode Consortium · 48.0 · Unicode License v3 · AccessedEnglish display names for countries, currencies and languages.
- Beijing population statistical reporting programNational Bureau of Statistics of China · Published 2025-05-07 · AccessedOfficial scope and population measures for Beijing municipality.