TaipeiTaiwan
Current time in Taipei, Taiwan
Friday, 25 September 2026
Taiwan Standard TimeUTC+08:00
⛶ Full-screen clockTaipei time at a glance
- Country
- Taiwan
- Location
- Capital city of Taiwan
- Time zone
Asia/Taipei- UTC offset now
UTC+08:00- Current zone label
- GMT+8
- Next clock change
- No upcoming change available
Taipei time guide
Does Taipei change its clocks?
UTC+08:00.- Year-round offset
- China Standard Time (CST), UTC+08:00
- Time-zone identifier
- Asia/Taipei
- Taipei and London
- 8 hours ahead during GMT; 7 hours ahead during BST
- Taipei and New York
- 13 hours ahead during EST; 12 hours ahead during EDT
Special municipality and metropolitan area
Taipei City excludes New Taipei City
Taipei City had 2,427,533 registered residents at the end of May 2026. The larger metropolitan area includes the separate New Taipei City and other municipalities, so metro totals are not city-government counts.
Time-zone identity for Taipei
- 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.
Taipei is currently 8 hours ahead of UTC. The named zone, rather than the offset alone, should be used for future dates.
Clock changes in Taipei
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 Taipei
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.
Capital city context
About Taipei, capital of Taiwan
Taipei is the capital of Taiwan. This page combines its live local clock with location, time-zone, weather, Sun and Moon information.
- Capital status
- Capital of Taiwan
- Administrative area
- Taiwan, Taiwan
- Population
- 7,871,900
- Coordinates
- 25.0531° N, 121.5264° E. The elevation is 5 metres.
Nearby city clocks
Cities near Taipei
Nearby cities are ordered by approximate straight-line distance from Taipei. Times are calculated for the same instant shown above.
- NeihuTaiwan, Taiwan7 km northeast
Asia/TaipeiSame local time - KeelungTaiwan, Taiwan23 km east
Asia/TaipeiSame local time - TaoyuanTaiwan, Taiwan24 km west
Asia/TaipeiSame local time - BadeTaiwan, Taiwan28 km southwest
Asia/TaipeiSame local time - NeiliTaiwan, Taiwan28 km west
Asia/TaipeiSame local time - DaxiTaiwan, Taiwan30 km southwest
Asia/TaipeiSame local time
Sources for Taipei 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.
- Taipei City Population ProfileTaipei City Government · 2026-05-31 · AccessedOfficial registered population and density for Taipei City.