Heure Actuelle à Lijiang, Chine — CST.

Lijiang, formerly romanized as Likiang, is a prefecture-level city in the northwest of Yunnan Province, China. It has an area of 21,219 square kilometres (8,193 sq mi) and had a population of 1,253,878 at the 2020 census whom 288,787 lived in the built-up area (metro) made of Gucheng District. By the end of 2024, the registered population of the city was 1,243,700. Lijiang is famous for its UNESCO Heritage Site, the Old Town of Lijiang, which contains a mixture of different historical architecture styles and a complex, ancient water-supply system. It borders Liangshan Yi Autonomous Prefecture and Panzhihua City in Sichuan Province to the east and it has one municipality and four counties.

Distance-wise, Lijiang is closest to Singapore (~2,863 km), Tokyo (~3,846 km), Dubai (~4,471 km); São Paulo is the far end at roughly 16,670 km. That ordering matters more than the timezone label for travel planning.

Lijiang sits inside Chine — the Eastern Asia subregion, capital Beijing, languages Chinese, currency CNY (¥).

Around Lijiang, the nearest mapped reference cities are Huangshan (5 km), Jiuhe (26 km), Shigu (26 km), Shunzhou (43 km); treat them as the de-facto regional cluster for CST planning.

Upcoming country holiday signals around Lijiang: Labour Day, Dragon Boat Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival. Bake those into launch, on-call, and travel windows for Chine.

Closest curated airport references from Lijiang: CTU Chengdu (Shuangliu) (548 km), TFU Chengdu (Jianyang) (562 km), CKG Chongqing (704 km).