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Hekou, Cina
02:10:09 PMThursday, April 30, 2026 · Asia/Shanghai
Kunming–Haiphong railway
Railway in Vietnam and China
Ora locale attuale
02:10:09 PM
Thursday, April 30, 2026
Fuso orario
CST
Asia/Shanghai · UTC+08:00
Prossima festività
Labour Day
venerdì 1 maggio 2026 · Public
Sovrapposizione lavorativa ora
4 / 8
Reference markets are overlapping with Hekou right now
Aeroporto più vicino
CKG
Chongqing Jiangbei International Airport · 840 km
Aeroporti indicizzati
25
Curated airport references available for Cina
Snapshot at render time: 02:10:09 PM on Thursday, April 30, 2026 in Hekou (UTC+08:00, CST).
Status
Daytime
Week Number
Week 18
Day of Year
Day 120
Days Remaining
245
Sunrise and sunset
06:32 AM to 07:30 PM
Day length 12h 58m · Solar noon 01:01 PM
Next country holiday
Labour Day
venerdì 1 maggio 2026 · Public
Tracked countdowns rendered for Hekou local time, with sunrise/sunset and DST stats per page.
Gemini 3 Launch (rumored at Google I/O)
release-techmartedì 12 maggio 2026
12 days to go
48th ASEAN Summit — Cebu
politicalvenerdì 15 maggio 2026
15 days to go
Gemini 3 Ultra Launch (estimated window)
keynotevenerdì 15 maggio 2026
15 days to go
WHO Pandemic Agreement — Adoption at 79th WHA
politicallunedì 18 maggio 2026
18 days to go
Forza Horizon 6
release-gamemartedì 19 maggio 2026
19 days to go
Google I/O 2026
keynotemartedì 19 maggio 2026
19 days to go
Population
45K
Coordinates
22.54, 104.01
Timezone
Asia/Shanghai
Aeroporti indicizzati
25
Capital
Beijing
Languages
Chinese
Currency
CNY (¥)
Country area
9,706,961 km²
Hekou (rank #1333 by population in this dataset) sits at Asia/Shanghai (CST, UTC+08:00) with roughly 45K residents, anchoring local-time questions for Cina.
Geographically, Hekou is at 22.54°N, 104.01°E — that places it in the Northern Hemisphere's tropics, about 2502 km from the equator, with small seasonal swing in sunrise and sunset.
Today the sun rises around 06:32 AM and sets around 07:30 PM in Hekou — about 12h 58m of daylight. Cina stays on standard time here, so UTC+08:00 is stable through the year.
Lào Cai (7 km from Hekou) gives this page its nearest commuter and travel cluster, with 25 curated airport pages indexed for Cina.
On 2026-05-01, Labour Day is the next holiday flag for Hekou — worth blocking out for launches or logistics.
Thursday, April 30, 2026
Timezone
CST
IANA Zone
Asia/Shanghai
UTC Offset
UTC+08:00
DST Status
Standard Time
Week Number
Week 18
Day of Year
Day 120
Days Remaining
245
Quarter
Q2
London
-7h
New York
-12h
Los Angeles
-15h
Dubai
-4h
Singapore
+0h
Tokyo
+1h
Sydney
+2h
São Paulo
-11h
Year-long daylight curve. Shows how dramatic high-latitude summers are.
Shows whether it's currently business hours (9am to 5pm) in major financial centers, and how many hours they overlap with Hekou.
| City | Current local time | Difference | Business-hours overlap |
|---|---|---|---|
| London | 07:10 AM | -7h | Check the overlap widget below |
| New York | 02:10 AM | -12h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Los Angeles | 11:10 PM | -15h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Dubai | 10:10 AM | -4h | Good to call now |
| Singapore | 02:10 PM | +0h | Good to call now |
| Tokyo | 03:10 PM | +1h | Good to call now |
| Sydney | 04:10 PM | +2h | Good to call now |
| São Paulo | 03:10 AM | -11h | Check the overlap widget below |
Chongqing Jiangbei International AirportCKG
Chongqing · 840 km away
Chengdu Tianfu International AirportTFU
Chengdu (Jianyang) · 865 km away
Chengdu Shuangliu International AirportCTU
Chengdu (Shuangliu) · 892 km away
Guangzhou Baiyun International AirportCAN
Guangzhou (Huadu) · 955 km away
Shenzhen Bao'an International AirportSZX
Shenzhen · 1005 km away
Hekou si trova nel fuso orario Asia/Shanghai (CST), con uno scostamento UTC di +08:00.
Hekou non sta attualmente osservando l'ora legale.
Lo scostamento UTC attuale per Hekou è UTC+08:00.
Hekou sits at 22.54°N, 104.01°E in Cina, with about 45K residents (rank #1333 by population in this dataset).
The closest reference hub to Hekou is Singapore, about 2,356 km away as the crow flies.
Lào Cai is the closest indexed city, roughly 7 km from Hekou.
Chongqing Jiangbei International Airport (CKG) is the closest curated airport reference, about 840 km from Hekou.
Labour Day is the next upcoming holiday in Cina, on venerdì 1 maggio 2026.
The Yunnan–Haiphong railway is an 855 km (531 mi) railway built by France from 1904 to 1910, connecting Haiphong, Vietnam, with Kunming, Yunnan province, China. The section within China from Kunming to Hekou is known as the Kunming–Hekou railway, and is 466 km (290 mi) long. The section within Vietnam is 389 km (242 mi) long, and is known as the Hanoi–Lào Cai railway. The railway was built with 1,000 mm gauge due to the mountainous terrain along the route. Currently it is the only main line in China using 1,000 mm metre gauge.
From Hekou the nearest of our reference hubs are Singapore (~2,356 km), Tokyo (~3,732 km), Dubai (~4,938 km), while São Paulo sits about 17,014 km away — useful framing when someone needs a feel for whether a meeting is a regional hop or an intercontinental call.
Hekou sits inside Cina — the Eastern Asia subregion, capital Beijing, languages Chinese, currency CNY (¥).
Lào Cai (7 km), Thị Trấn Phố Lu (30 km), Lai Châu (59 km), Mabai (69 km) are the nearest cities WorldClockTools indexes around Hekou — that's the cluster to use when scheduling spills past the city limits.
Upcoming country holiday signals around Hekou: Labour Day, Dragon Boat Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival. Bake those into launch, on-call, and travel windows for Cina.
Closest curated airport references from Hekou: CKG Chongqing (840 km), TFU Chengdu (Jianyang) (865 km), CTU Chengdu (Shuangliu) (892 km).
In 2021, Forty-five men and boys are killed in the Meron stampede in Israel.
China is a high-value market for supply-chain, manufacturing, and APAC business-hour questions.
Chongqing Jiangbei International AirportCKG
Chongqing · 840 km from Hekou
Approx. transfer or flight-planning window: 1h 50m
Chengdu Tianfu International AirportTFU
Chengdu (Jianyang) · 865 km from Hekou
Approx. transfer or flight-planning window: 1h 52m
Chengdu Shuangliu International AirportCTU
Chengdu (Shuangliu) · 892 km from Hekou
Approx. transfer or flight-planning window: 1h 54m
Guangzhou Baiyun International AirportCAN
Guangzhou (Huadu) · 955 km from Hekou
Approx. transfer or flight-planning window: 1h 58m
Shenzhen Bao'an International AirportSZX
Shenzhen · 1005 km from Hekou
Approx. transfer or flight-planning window: 2h 2m
Exchange snapshot
1 CNY = 0.125 EUR · 1 CNY = 0.108 GBP · 1 CNY = 0.146 USD
As of 2026-04-29
On this day
2021: Forty-five men and boys are killed in the Meron stampede in Israel.
2014: A bomb blast in Ürümqi, China kills three people and injures 79 others.
2013: Willem-Alexander is inaugurated as King of the Netherlands following the abdication of Beatrix.
Coordination pulse
4 of 8 reference markets are in live business-hour overlap now
