KaohsiungTaiwan
Current time in Kaohsiung, Taiwan
Wednesday, 9 September 2026
Taiwan Standard TimeUTC+08:00
⛶ Full-screen clockKaohsiung time at a glance
- Country
- Taiwan
- Location
- City in Takao
- Time zone
Asia/Taipei- UTC offset now
UTC+08:00- Current zone label
- GMT+8
- Next clock change
- No upcoming change available
Time-zone identity for Kaohsiung
- IANA zone
Asia/Taipei- 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.
Kaohsiung is currently 8 hours ahead of UTC. The named zone, rather than the offset alone, should be used for future dates.
Clock changes in Kaohsiung
370-day checked horizon
No UTC offset change was found through Tuesday, 14 September 2027 in runtime time-zone data 2026b.
Time-zone history
UTC offset changes for Kaohsiung
A bounded record of offset transitions calculated for Asia/Taipei, 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.
Location context
About Kaohsiung
Location details for Kaohsiung in Takao, Taiwan.
- Administrative area
- Takao, Taiwan
- Population
- 2,737,660
- Coordinates
- 22.6163° N, 120.3133° E. The elevation is 9 metres.
Nearby city clocks
Cities near Kaohsiung
Nearby cities are ordered by approximate straight-line distance from Kaohsiung. Times are calculated for the same instant shown above.
- FengshanTakao, Taiwan5.1 km east
Asia/TaipeiSame local time - DonggangTaiwan, Taiwan22 km southeast
Asia/TaipeiSame local time - ChaozhouTaiwan, Taiwan24 km east
Asia/TaipeiSame local time - TainanTaiwan, Taiwan43 km north
Asia/TaipeiSame local time - YongkangTaiwan, Taiwan46 km north
Asia/TaipeiSame local time - YujingTaiwan, Taiwan59 km north
Asia/TaipeiSame local time
Sources for Kaohsiung time and city facts
Time-zone calculations use runtime tzdb 2026b. Weather and astronomy sources include their own retrieval times where available.
View 3 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.