Indexed entity
Beijing is the beijing-CN record in China: country slug china, city slug beijing, ISO CN, continent Asia, canonical IANA zone Asia/Shanghai.
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Live local time
Beijing, China
06:39:23 PMTuesday, June 2, 2026 · Asia/Shanghai
Quick answer
It is currently 06:39:23 PM (CST, UTC+08:00) in Beijing, China — Afternoon.
Pronunciation
Updated 8 days ago
Right now
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Rain
3-day forecast
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Wed
28°C
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Thu
30°C
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In 17 days
Fri, Jun 19, 2026
PublicIn 115 days
中秋节 (Mid-Autumn Festival)
Fri, Sep 25, 2026
PublicIn 121 days
Thu, Oct 1, 2026
PublicUpdated 2026-05-22 · ECB rates
Code
Chinese Yuan
1 USD = 6.795 CNY
Quick conversions
Today
Sunrise
04:47 AM
Sunset
07:37 PM
Day length
14h 50m
Golden hour
Blue hour
Civil twilight (–6°)
Nautical twilight (–12°)
Astronomical twilight (–18°)
Computed from latitude, longitude and date using the NOAA Solar Position Algorithm.
Reviewed by WorldClockTools editorial · Updated
Content reviewed Apr 30, 2026. City facts are content-reviewed separately from the live clock and from the generated city datasets. The current-time, daylight, weather, holiday, and business-overlap values are render-time snapshots for Beijing, not permanent claims; verify legal, travel, market, or compliance decisions with official local sources.
Live values rendered at Jun 2, 10:39 AM UTC.
Current local time
06:39:23 PM
Tuesday, June 2, 2026
Time zone
CST
Asia/Shanghai · UTC+08:00
Next holiday
Dragon Boat Festival
Friday, June 19, 2026 · Public
Business overlap now
0 / 8
Reference markets are overlapping with Beijing right now
Nearest airport
PEK
Beijing Capital International Airport · 25 km
Indexed airports
25
Curated airport references available for China
Coordination board
A compact checklist for calls, launches, travel handoffs, and date-sensitive work tied to Beijing, China.
Snapshot Jun 2, 2026 · 18:39 GMT+8
No reference-city overlap right now
Beijing is currently outside the simple 09:00-17:00 local planning window.
Local status
Out of window
Offset now
UTC+08:00
Zone label
GMT+8
London
11:39 AM / -7h
New York
06:39 AM / -12h
Los Angeles
03:39 AM / -15h
Schedule risk
Dragon Boat Festival on Friday, June 19, 2026
Travel cue
PEK Beijing, 25 km
Daylight cue
Today's daylight window is 04:47 AM to 07:37 PM, with solar noon around 12:12 PM and total daylight of 14h 50m.
Mapped location
39.91°N, 116.40°E
Use these reference hubs as a first-pass call plan before opening a full meeting planner.
London
11:39 AM / -7h
Use as a follow-up or async handoff, not an immediate-call default.
New York
06:39 AM / -12h
Use as a follow-up or async handoff, not an immediate-call default.
Los Angeles
03:39 AM / -15h
Use as a follow-up or async handoff, not an immediate-call default.
Dubai
02:39 PM / -4h
Use as a follow-up or async handoff, not an immediate-call default.
Singapore
06:39 PM / +0h
Use as a follow-up or async handoff, not an immediate-call default.
Good for travel-day timing, hotel check-ins, and same-day arrival calls around Beijing.
PEK · Beijing Capital International Airport
Beijing
PKX · Beijing Daxing International Airport
Beijing
TSN · Tianjin Binhai International Airport
Tianjin
TNA · Jinan Yaoqiang International Airport
Jinan (Licheng)
Lock the timezone, not the offset
Use Asia/Shanghai for future-dated events. Current offset is UTC+08:00; stable January-to-July offset at UTC+08:00.
Pick a live coordination window
No reference city overlaps Beijing right now, so use the comparison table below before sending meeting invites.
Check local interruptions
Dragon Boat Festival on Friday, June 19, 2026. Nearest curated airport reference: PEK Beijing, 25 km.
Guard against stale assumptions
No upcoming offset change was detected in the next two calendar years for Asia/Shanghai. Editorial review date: 2026-04-30.
Watch the DST and holiday edge cases
Beijing has no near-term DST change in view, but Dragon Boat Festival can still affect office coverage and local response times.
These values are planning context from the live clock, IANA timezone rules, curated city and airport records, and holiday calendars when available. Confirm official office, aviation, market, legal, or compliance decisions with the relevant source.
Local planning context
Route, catalog identity, coordinates, population record, timezone snapshot, nearby cities, and travel anchors for Beijing.
Canonical route
/time/china/beijing/
Catalog identity
beijing-CN · CN · Asia
Coordinate cell
39.91°N, 116.40°E · lat 39.907 · lon 116.397 · cell 3991:11640
Population record
18,960,744 residents · country rank 2
Zone snapshot
Asia/Shanghai · GMT+8 · UTC+08:00
January / July offsets
UTC+08:00 / UTC+08:00
Nearest indexed neighbor
Namp’o, North Korea · 786 km
Nearest world hub
Tokyo · 2,090 km
Closest airport references
PEK Beijing 25 km · PKX Beijing 45 km · TSN Tianjin 119 km · TNA Jinan (Licheng) 347 km
Zone peer roster
Shanghai, China · Shenzhen, China · Guangzhou, China
The page below keeps the timezone answer attached to the real local record for Beijing: country facts, coordinate bands, nearby-city distances, airport references, and current calendar signals.
Beijing is the beijing-CN record in China: country slug china, city slug beijing, ISO CN, continent Asia, canonical IANA zone Asia/Shanghai.
39.91°N, 116.40°E; Northern Hemisphere, Eastern Hemisphere; rounded latitude band 39 and longitude band 116; exact decimal pair 39.90750, 116.39723.
China: official name People's Republic of China; capital Beijing; region Asia; subregion Eastern Asia; country population 1,408,280,000; area 9,706,961 km²; languages Chinese; currencies CNY Chinese yuan. This is the country layer behind the Beijing clock, not a generic timezone-only record.
China: China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. It is the second-most populous country after India, with a population exceeding 1.4 billion, representing 17% of the world's population. China borders fourteen countries by land across an area of 9.6 million square kilometers (3,700,000 sq mi), making it the third-largest country by area. The country is divided into 33 province-level divisions: 22 provinces, 5 autonomous regions, 4 municipalities, and 2 semi-autonomous special administrative regions. Beijing is the capital, while Shanghai is the most populous city by urban area and largest financial center. Source: Wikipedia.
Namp’o [namp-o-KP, KP, Asia/Pyongyang, 786 km]; Pyongyang [pyongyang-KP, KP, Asia/Pyongyang, 809 km]; Sunch’ŏn [sunch-on-KP, KP, Asia/Pyongyang, 817 km]; Choibalsan [choibalsan-MN, MN, Asia/Ulaanbaatar, 920 km]; Incheon [incheon-KR, KR, Asia/Seoul, 935 km]; Hamhŭng [hamhung-KP, KP, Asia/Pyongyang, 949 km]; Seoul [seoul-KR, KR, Asia/Seoul, 953 km]; Shanghai [shanghai-CN, CN, Asia/Shanghai, 1068 km]
Beijing is part of this indexed country cluster: Shanghai [shanghai-CN, Asia/Shanghai, pop 24,874,500]; Beijing [beijing-CN, Asia/Shanghai, pop 18,960,744]; Shenzhen [shenzhen-CN, Asia/Shanghai, pop 17,494,398]; Guangzhou [guangzhou-CN, Asia/Shanghai, pop 16,096,724]; Shihezi [shihezi-CN, Asia/Urumqi, pop 572,772]; Korla [korla-CN, Asia/Urumqi, pop 549,324]; Aqsu [aqsu-CN, Asia/Urumqi, pop 535,657]; Ürümqi [urumqi-CN, Asia/Urumqi].
Tokyo 2,090 km; Singapore 4,472 km; Dubai 5,841 km; London 8,140 km; Sydney 8,949 km; Los Angeles 10,062 km; New York 10,989 km; São Paulo 17,598 km
PEK Beijing Capital International Airport in Beijing [CN, 25 km]; PKX Beijing Daxing International Airport in Beijing [CN, 45 km]; TSN Tianjin Binhai International Airport in Tianjin [CN, 119 km]; TNA Jinan Yaoqiang International Airport in Jinan (Licheng) [CN, 347 km]; TYN Taiyuan Wusu International Airport in Taiyuan [CN, 405 km]
Country-level airport pages linked from this city context include CAN Guangzhou Baiyun International Airport in Guangzhou (Huadu) [CN]; CGQ Changchun Longjia International Airport in Changchun [CN]; CKG Chongqing Jiangbei International Airport in Chongqing [CN]; CTU Chengdu Shuangliu International Airport in Chengdu (Shuangliu) [CN]; DLC Dalian Zhoushuizi International Airport in Dalian (Ganjingzi) [CN]; HFE Hefei Xinqiao International Airport in Hefei [CN]; HGH Hangzhou Xiaoshan International Airport in Hangzhou [CN]; HRB Harbin Taiping International Airport in Harbin [CN]; INC Yinchuan Hedong International Airport in Yinchuan [CN]; NKG Nanjing Lukou International Airport in Nanjing [CN].
Beijing renders Jun 2, 2026 · 18:39 GMT+8; GMT+8 at UTC+08:00; January UTC+08:00; July UTC+08:00; next holiday Dragon Boat Festival on 2026-06-19.
This evidence pack keeps the manual city dossier tied to the concrete route, coordinate, population, timezone, neighbor, airport, holiday, and source signals currently available for Beijing.
Beijing is a manual-dossier city; rank #2 of 8 retained China city pages. The route is /time/china/beijing/ and the city id is beijing-CN.
Beijing has 16 of 17 factual signals available on this render. Missing long-form editorial is not treated as missing time data when route, zone, coordinates, country, nearby-city, and planning signals are present.
Beijing is pinned at 39.91°N, 116.40°E; Namp’o (786 km); Tokyo (2,090 km).
Asia/Shanghai resolves to stable UTC+08:00 offset across January and July. 3 retained city pages share this zone; 0 same-zone anchors are outside China.
PEK Beijing Capital International Airport (25 km) · Dragon Boat Festival (Friday, June 19, 2026) · 25 country airport references · 6 holidays in the current country-year snapshot.
Beijing uses IANA timezone math, curated GeoNames-derived city records, a city reference summary, a country reference summary, OurAirports links where mapped, Nager.Date holiday rows where available, and local solar/weather snapshots where coordinates are present.
These notes are pulled from the city-context and reference-summary snapshots, so same-timezone cities do not rely only on shared UTC offset text.
Beijing: Beijing, previously romanized as Peking, is the capital city of China. With more than 22 million residents, it is the world's most populous national capital city, as well as China's second-largest city by urban area, after Shanghai. It is located in Northern China, and is governed as a municipality under the direct administration of the State Council with 16 urban districts. Beijing is mostly surrounded by Hebei Province and neighbors Tianjin to the southeast; together, the three divisions form the Jing-Jin-Ji cluster.
China unified the country onto a single time zone, Beijing Time at UTC+8, in 1949 and has used a single zone ever since.
China unified the country onto a single time zone, Beijing Time at UTC+8, in 1949 and has used a single zone ever since.
China has used a single year-round time zone (UTC+8) since 1949. The local UTC offset (+08:00) is constant year-round.
Beijing is listed in the dataset snapshot as 8 hours ahead of UTC (offset +08:00). 7 hours ahead of London, 1 hour behind Tokyo.
Geographically at longitude 116.40°, Beijing's mean solar noon falls about 14 minutes after civil 12:00 under the year-round civil offset — local sunrise and sunset run later on the clock than they would on true solar time.
Computed from the city coordinates using the NOAA solar position model across 2026. These values are mechanical and identical for every year-relative render, so two cities at different latitudes always produce distinct numbers.
Longest day
Jun 16 (15h 0m)
Shortest day
Dec 18 (9h 20m)
Year-round average
12h 12m
Annual swing
5h 40m
See the full daylight curve for Beijing at /sun/beijing/.
Each row projects a hub's 09:00-17:00 local working day into Beijing local time so a glance reveals when each market is reachable from this city.
| Hub | IANA zone | Window in Beijing |
|---|---|---|
| New York | America/New_York | 21:00 - 05:00 (next day) |
| London | Europe/London | 16:00 - 00:00 (next day) |
| Frankfurt | Europe/Berlin | 15:00 - 23:00 |
| Dubai | Asia/Dubai | 13:00 - 21:00 |
| Mumbai | Asia/Kolkata | 11:30 - 19:30 |
| Singapore | Asia/Singapore | 09:00 - 17:00 |
| Hong Kong | Asia/Hong_Kong | 09:00 - 17:00 |
| Tokyo | Asia/Tokyo | 08:00 - 16:00 |
IANA time zones in country
2
Public holidays in 2026
6
Capital status
National capital of China
Beijing is the capital of the People's Republic of China and the second-most populous Chinese city proper after Shanghai, with about 21 million residents. China Standard Time (CST, UTC+8) is the country's single civil time year-round. Beijing is the political, educational, and cultural centre of China, housing the central government, the Communist Party leadership, the Forbidden City (the world's largest palace complex by area), and Tiananmen Square. The city contains seven UNESCO World Heritage Sites (the most of any city in the world), including the Forbidden City, the Temple of Heaven, the Summer Palace, and sections of the Great Wall, and hosted both the 2008 Summer Olympics and the 2022 Winter Olympics — the only city to have hosted both summer and winter games.
Sources
Last verified 2026-05-09 (manual).
Reference fields include Beijing's city id, coordinates, timezone, country profile, nearby cities, airport links, holidays, weather, and related event/market context.
Snapshot at render time: 06:39:23 PM on Tuesday, June 2, 2026 in Beijing (UTC+08:00, CST).
Status
Nighttime
Week Number
Week 23
Day of Year
Day 153
Days Remaining
212
Sunrise and sunset
04:47 AM to 07:37 PM
Day length 14h 50m · Solar noon 12:12 PM
Next country holiday
Dragon Boat Festival
Friday, June 19, 2026 · Public
Tracked countdowns rendered for Beijing local time, with sunrise/sunset and DST stats per page.
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187 days to go
Population
19M
Coordinates
39.91, 116.40
Timezone
Asia/Shanghai
Indexed airports
25
Capital
Beijing
Languages
Chinese
Currency
CNY (¥)
Country area
9,706,961 km²
Beijing, China (population rank #2 in this dataset). Time zone: Asia/Shanghai (CST, UTC+08:00); population ~19M.
Coordinates: 39.91°N, 116.40°E. Northern Hemisphere mid-latitudes, ~4430 km from the equator.
Today the sun rises around 04:47 AM and sets around 07:37 PM in Beijing — about 14h 50m of daylight. China stays on standard time here, so UTC+08:00 is stable through the year.
Namp’o (786 km from Beijing) gives this page its nearest mapped city context, with 25 curated airport pages indexed for China.
Next national holiday: Dragon Boat Festival, 2026-06-19.
Beijing is indexed as a Asia city in the CN country record, using Asia/Shanghai as its canonical IANA timezone. The canonical route for this city is /time/china/beijing/.
Location context: 39.91°N, 116.40°E; population 18,960,744; nearest indexed city Namp’o is about 786 km away; closest reference hub is Tokyo, about 2,090 km away.
Country planning context: capital Beijing; subregion Eastern Asia; languages Chinese; currency CNY (¥); area 9,706,961 km²; 25 curated airport references; next holiday Dragon Boat Festival on 2026-06-19.
China unified the country onto a single time zone, Beijing Time at UTC+8, in 1949 and has used a single zone ever since.
China has used a single year-round time zone (UTC+8) since 1949. The local UTC offset (+08:00) is constant year-round.
Beijing is listed in the dataset snapshot as 8 hours ahead of UTC (offset +08:00). 7 hours ahead of London, 1 hour behind Tokyo.
Geographically at longitude 116.40°, Beijing's mean solar noon falls about 14 minutes after civil 12:00 under the year-round civil offset — local sunrise and sunset run later on the clock than they would on true solar time.
Beijing sits at 39.91°N in the northern hemisphere — daylight runs roughly 14 hours 50 minutes on the June solstice and about 9 hours 10 minutes on the December solstice.
Megacity with roughly 19 million urban residents — among the largest metropolitan areas in the world.
Related clock anchors for Beijing: Shanghai (same time), San Francisco (−15h), Los Angeles (−15h), New York City (−12h), Tokyo (+1h).
Cross-link to the most-searched comparison pages so you can plan calls and travel between cities.
china
Tuesday, June 2, 2026
Timezone
CST
IANA Zone
Asia/Shanghai
UTC Offset
UTC+08:00
DST Status
Standard Time
Week Number
Week 23
Day of Year
Day 153
Days Remaining
212
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 Beijing.
City time, coordinate and population facts on this page are derived from the following authoritative datasets.
Distances from Beijing: closest hubs Tokyo (~2,090 km), Singapore (~4,472 km), Dubai (~5,841 km); farthest indexed hub São Paulo (~17,598 km).
Beijing sits inside China — the Eastern Asia subregion, capital Beijing, languages Chinese, currency CNY (¥).
Closest indexed cities to Beijing: Namp’o (786 km), Pyongyang (809 km), Sunch’ŏn (817 km), Choibalsan (920 km).
Upcoming country holiday signals around Beijing: Dragon Boat Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival, National Day. Bake those into launch, on-call, and travel windows for China.
Closest curated airport references from Beijing: PEK Beijing (25 km), PKX Beijing (45 km), TSN Tianjin (119 km).
China uses one national civil time across a physically wide country, which is one of the best timezone-policy facts the site can highlight.
Beijing Capital International AirportPEK
Beijing · 25 km from Beijing
Approx. transfer or flight-planning window: 47m
Beijing Daxing International AirportPKX
Beijing · 45 km from Beijing
Approx. transfer or flight-planning window: 48m
Tianjin Binhai International AirportTSN
Tianjin · 119 km from Beijing
Approx. transfer or flight-planning window: 54m
Jinan Yaoqiang International AirportTNA
Jinan (Licheng) · 347 km from Beijing
Approx. transfer or flight-planning window: 1h 12m
Taiyuan Wusu International AirportTYN
Taiyuan · 405 km from Beijing
Approx. transfer or flight-planning window: 1h 16m
Exchange snapshot
Currency snapshot unavailable
Coordination pulse
0 of 8 reference markets are in live business-hour overlap now
| City | Current local time | Difference | Business-hours overlap |
|---|---|---|---|
| London | 11:39 AM | -7h | Check the overlap widget below |
| New York | 06:39 AM | -12h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Los Angeles | 03:39 AM | -15h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Dubai | 02:39 PM | -4h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Singapore | 06:39 PM | +0h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Tokyo | 07:39 PM | +1h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Sydney | 08:39 PM | +2h | Check the overlap widget below |
| São Paulo | 07:39 AM | -11h | Check the overlap widget below |
Beijing Capital International AirportPEK
Beijing · 25 km away
Beijing Daxing International AirportPKX
Beijing · 45 km away
Tianjin Binhai International AirportTSN
Tianjin · 119 km away
Jinan Yaoqiang International AirportTNA
Jinan (Licheng) · 347 km away
Taiyuan Wusu International AirportTYN
Taiyuan · 405 km away
Beijing is in the Asia/Shanghai timezone (CST), with a UTC offset of +08:00.
Beijing does not have a detected daylight-saving offset change in the current IANA rules. The offset resolves to UTC+08:00 in both January and July for this year.
The current UTC offset for Beijing is UTC+08:00.
No. The business-hours blocks use a simple 09:00-17:00 local-time planning window for Beijing, plus live comparisons with reference cities. Confirm office, market, legal, or holiday-sensitive hours with the relevant official source.
The live clock, offset, daylight, weather, holiday, and business-overlap values are render-time snapshots from Jun 2, 2026 · 18:39 GMT+8. Static city facts are reviewed separately and come from curated timezone, city, airport, holiday, and country-profile datasets.
Beijing sits at 39.91°N, 116.40°E in China, with about 19M residents (rank #2 by population in this dataset).
The closest reference hub to Beijing is Tokyo, about 2,090 km away as the crow flies.
Namp’o is the closest indexed city, roughly 786 km from Beijing.
Beijing Capital International Airport (PEK) is the closest curated airport reference, about 25 km from Beijing.
Dragon Boat Festival is the next upcoming holiday in China, on Friday, June 19, 2026.
Beijing uses Chinese yuan (CNY, symbol ¥) as the local currency of China.
The longest day of 2026 in Beijing falls on Jun 16 with about 15h 0m of daylight. The shortest is Dec 18 with 9h 20m; the year-round average is 12h 12m.
China spans 2 IANA time zones in total; Beijing's canonical zone for this page is Asia/Shanghai.
In Beijing local time, the 09:00-17:00 working day of major hubs falls at: New York 21:00-05:00 (next day); London 16:00-00:00 (next day); Frankfurt 15:00-23:00; Dubai 13:00-21:00. These windows shift twice a year when northern-hemisphere DST starts and ends.