Indexed entity
Guangzhou is the guangzhou-CN record in China: country slug china, city slug guangzhou, ISO CN, continent Asia, canonical IANA zone Asia/Shanghai.
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Live local time
Guangzhou, China
06:45:38 PMTuesday, June 2, 2026 · Asia/Shanghai
Quick answer
It is currently 06:45:38 PM (CST, UTC+08:00) in Guangzhou, China — Afternoon.
Pronunciation
Updated 8 days ago
Right now
34°C
Thunderstorm
3-day forecast
Tue
35°C
27°C
37% rain
Wed
34°C
27°C
52% rain
Thu
34°C
26°C
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
05:40 AM
Sunset
07:09 PM
Day length
13h 28m
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 Guangzhou, not permanent claims; verify legal, travel, market, or compliance decisions with official local sources.
Live values rendered at Jun 2, 10:45 AM UTC.
Current local time
06:45:38 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 Guangzhou right now
Nearest airport
CAN
Guangzhou Baiyun International Airport · 31 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 Guangzhou, China.
Snapshot Jun 2, 2026 · 18:45 GMT+8
No reference-city overlap right now
Guangzhou 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
11:45 AM / -7h
New York
06:45 AM / -12h
Los Angeles
03:45 AM / -15h
Schedule risk
Dragon Boat Festival on Friday, June 19, 2026
Travel cue
CAN Guangzhou (Huadu), 31 km
Daylight cue
Today's daylight window is 05:40 AM to 07:09 PM, with solar noon around 12:25 PM and total daylight of 13h 29m.
Mapped location
23.12°N, 113.25°E
Use these reference hubs as a first-pass call plan before opening a full meeting planner.
London
11:45 AM / -7h
Use as a follow-up or async handoff, not an immediate-call default.
New York
06:45 AM / -12h
Use as a follow-up or async handoff, not an immediate-call default.
Los Angeles
03:45 AM / -15h
Use as a follow-up or async handoff, not an immediate-call default.
Dubai
02:45 PM / -4h
Use as a follow-up or async handoff, not an immediate-call default.
Singapore
06:45 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 Guangzhou.
CAN · Guangzhou Baiyun International Airport
Guangzhou (Huadu)
SZX · Shenzhen Bao'an International Airport
Shenzhen
XMN · Xiamen Gaoqi International Airport
Xiamen
WUH · Wuhan Tianhe International Airport
Wuhan (Huangpi)
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 Guangzhou 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: CAN Guangzhou (Huadu), 31 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
Guangzhou 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 Guangzhou.
Canonical route
/time/china/guangzhou/
Catalog identity
guangzhou-CN · CN · Asia
Coordinate cell
23.12°N, 113.25°E · lat 23.117 · lon 113.250 · cell 2312:11325
Population record
16,096,724 residents · country rank 4
Zone snapshot
Asia/Shanghai · GMT+8 · UTC+08:00
January / July offsets
UTC+08:00 / UTC+08:00
Nearest indexed neighbor
Shenzhen, China · 105 km
Nearest world hub
Singapore · 2,625 km
Closest airport references
CAN Guangzhou (Huadu) 31 km · SZX Shenzhen 78 km · XMN Xiamen 521 km · WUH Wuhan (Huangpi) 857 km
Zone peer roster
Shanghai, China · Beijing, China · Shenzhen, China
The page below keeps the timezone answer attached to the real local record for Guangzhou: country facts, coordinate bands, nearby-city distances, airport references, and current calendar signals.
Guangzhou is the guangzhou-CN record in China: country slug china, city slug guangzhou, ISO CN, continent Asia, canonical IANA zone Asia/Shanghai.
23.12°N, 113.25°E; Northern Hemisphere, Eastern Hemisphere; rounded latitude band 23 and longitude band 113; exact decimal pair 23.11667, 113.25000.
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 Guangzhou 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.
Shenzhen [shenzhen-CN, CN, Asia/Shanghai, 105 km]; Macau [macau-MO, MO, Asia/Macau, 106 km]; Sé [se-MO, MO, Asia/Macau, 107 km]; Taipa [taipa-MO, MO, Asia/Macau, 111 km]; Luhuan [luhuan-MO, MO, Asia/Macau, 115 km]; New Territories [new-territories-HK, HK, Asia/Hong_Kong, 117 km]; Kowloon [kowloon-HK, HK, Asia/Hong_Kong, 131 km]; Hong Kong [hong-kong-HK, HK, Asia/Hong_Kong, 133 km]
Guangzhou 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].
Singapore 2,625 km; Tokyo 2,900 km; Dubai 5,840 km; Sydney 7,501 km; London 9,496 km; Los Angeles 11,648 km; New York 12,878 km; São Paulo 17,962 km
CAN Guangzhou Baiyun International Airport in Guangzhou (Huadu) [CN, 31 km]; SZX Shenzhen Bao'an International Airport in Shenzhen [CN, 78 km]; XMN Xiamen Gaoqi International Airport in Xiamen [CN, 521 km]; WUH Wuhan Tianhe International Airport in Wuhan (Huangpi) [CN, 857 km]; CKG Chongqing Jiangbei International Airport in Chongqing [CN, 984 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].
Guangzhou renders Jun 2, 2026 · 18:45 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 Guangzhou.
Guangzhou is a manual-dossier city; rank #4 of 8 retained China city pages. The route is /time/china/guangzhou/ and the city id is guangzhou-CN.
Guangzhou 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.
Guangzhou is pinned at 23.12°N, 113.25°E; Shenzhen (105 km); Singapore (2,625 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.
CAN Guangzhou Baiyun International Airport (31 km) · Dragon Boat Festival (Friday, June 19, 2026) · 25 country airport references · 6 holidays in the current country-year snapshot.
Guangzhou 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.
Guangzhou: Guangzhou, also known as Canton, is the capital and largest city of Guangdong in southern China. Located on the Pearl River, about 120 kilometres (75 mi) northwest of Hong Kong and 145 kilometres (90 mi) north of Macau, Guangzhou has a history of over 2,200 years and was a major terminus of the Silk Road.
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.
Guangzhou 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 113.25°, Guangzhou's mean solar noon falls about 27 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 14 (13h 33m)
Shortest day
Dec 15 (10h 43m)
Year-round average
12h 9m
Annual swing
2h 50m
See the full daylight curve for Guangzhou at /sun/guangzhou/.
Each row projects a hub's 09:00-17:00 local working day into Guangzhou local time so a glance reveals when each market is reachable from this city.
| Hub | IANA zone | Window in Guangzhou |
|---|---|---|
| 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
Guangzhou is the capital of Guangdong province and the largest city in southern China, with roughly 16 million residents in the city proper and a Pearl River Delta megaregion exceeding 65 million. China Standard Time (CST, UTC+8) is the country's single civil time and has been observed without daylight saving since 1991, despite China spanning five geographic time zones. Historically the port of Canton and the sole legal channel for Western trade during the Qing dynasty, Guangzhou is now a manufacturing and trade powerhouse that hosts the biannual Canton Fair, China's oldest and largest import and export exhibition. The city anchors the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area and is a key hub on the Guangzhou-Shenzhen high-speed corridor.
Sources
Last verified 2026-05-20 (manual).
Reference fields include Guangzhou's city id, coordinates, timezone, country profile, nearby cities, airport links, holidays, weather, and related event/market context.
Snapshot at render time: 06:45:38 PM on Tuesday, June 2, 2026 in Guangzhou (UTC+08:00, CST).
Status
Nighttime
Week Number
Week 23
Day of Year
Day 153
Days Remaining
212
Sunrise and sunset
05:40 AM to 07:09 PM
Day length 13h 29m · Solar noon 12:25 PM
Next country holiday
Dragon Boat Festival
Friday, June 19, 2026 · Public
Tracked countdowns rendered for Guangzhou local time, with sunrise/sunset and DST stats per page.
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Population
16.1M
Coordinates
23.12, 113.25
Timezone
Asia/Shanghai
Indexed airports
25
Capital
Beijing
Languages
Chinese
Currency
CNY (¥)
Country area
9,706,961 km²
Guangzhou, China (population rank #4 in this dataset). Time zone: Asia/Shanghai (CST, UTC+08:00); population ~16.1M.
Coordinates: 23.12°N, 113.25°E. Northern Hemisphere tropics, ~2566 km from the equator.
Today the sun rises around 05:40 AM and sets around 07:09 PM in Guangzhou — about 13h 29m of daylight. China stays on standard time here, so UTC+08:00 is stable through the year.
Shenzhen (105 km from Guangzhou) 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.
Guangzhou 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/guangzhou/.
Location context: 23.12°N, 113.25°E; population 16,096,724; nearest indexed city Shenzhen is about 105 km away; closest reference hub is Singapore, about 2,625 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.
Guangzhou 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 113.25°, Guangzhou's mean solar noon falls about 27 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.
Guangzhou sits at 23.12°N, in the northern tropics, so the sun passes nearly overhead twice a year and the longest-to-shortest day swing stays under about ninety minutes.
Megacity with roughly 16.1 million urban residents — among the largest metropolitan areas in the world.
Related clock anchors for Guangzhou: Shanghai (same time), San Francisco (−15h), Los Angeles (−15h), Hong Kong (same time), Dubai (−4h).
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 Guangzhou.
City time, coordinate and population facts on this page are derived from the following authoritative datasets.
Distances from Guangzhou: closest hubs Singapore (~2,625 km), Tokyo (~2,900 km), Dubai (~5,840 km); farthest indexed hub São Paulo (~17,962 km).
Guangzhou sits inside China — the Eastern Asia subregion, capital Beijing, languages Chinese, currency CNY (¥).
Closest indexed cities to Guangzhou: Shenzhen (105 km), Macau (106 km), Sé (107 km), Taipa (111 km).
Upcoming country holiday signals around Guangzhou: Dragon Boat Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival, National Day. Bake those into launch, on-call, and travel windows for China.
Closest curated airport references from Guangzhou: CAN Guangzhou (Huadu) (31 km), SZX Shenzhen (78 km), XMN Xiamen (521 km).
China pages should mention Golden Week, Lunar New Year, and Mid-Autumn timing because those are real planning signals for business and travel.
Guangzhou Baiyun International AirportCAN
Guangzhou (Huadu) · 31 km from Guangzhou
Approx. transfer or flight-planning window: 47m
Shenzhen Bao'an International AirportSZX
Shenzhen · 78 km from Guangzhou
Approx. transfer or flight-planning window: 51m
Xiamen Gaoqi International AirportXMN
Xiamen · 521 km from Guangzhou
Approx. transfer or flight-planning window: 1h 25m
Wuhan Tianhe International AirportWUH
Wuhan (Huangpi) · 857 km from Guangzhou
Approx. transfer or flight-planning window: 1h 51m
Chongqing Jiangbei International AirportCKG
Chongqing · 984 km from Guangzhou
Approx. transfer or flight-planning window: 2h 1m
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 | 11:45 AM | -7h | Check the overlap widget below |
| New York | 06:45 AM | -12h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Los Angeles | 03:45 AM | -15h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Dubai | 02:45 PM | -4h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Singapore | 06:45 PM | +0h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Tokyo | 07:45 PM | +1h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Sydney | 08:45 PM | +2h | Check the overlap widget below |
| São Paulo | 07:45 AM | -11h | Check the overlap widget below |
Guangzhou Baiyun International AirportCAN
Guangzhou (Huadu) · 31 km away
Shenzhen Bao'an International AirportSZX
Shenzhen · 78 km away
Xiamen Gaoqi International AirportXMN
Xiamen · 521 km away
Wuhan Tianhe International AirportWUH
Wuhan (Huangpi) · 857 km away
Chongqing Jiangbei International AirportCKG
Chongqing · 984 km away
Shenzhen
China
Approx. 105 km away
Macau
Macao SAR China
Approx. 106 km away
Sé
Macao SAR China
Approx. 107 km away
Taipa
Macao SAR China
Approx. 111 km away
Luhuan
Macao SAR China
Approx. 115 km away
New Territories
Hong Kong SAR China
Approx. 117 km away
Kowloon
Hong Kong SAR China
Approx. 131 km away
Hong Kong
Hong Kong SAR China
Approx. 133 km away
Guangzhou is in the Asia/Shanghai timezone (CST), with a UTC offset of +08:00.
Guangzhou 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 Guangzhou is UTC+08:00.
No. The business-hours blocks use a simple 09:00-17:00 local-time planning window for Guangzhou, 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 · 18:45 GMT+8. Static city facts are reviewed separately and come from curated timezone, city, airport, holiday, and country-profile datasets.
Guangzhou sits at 23.12°N, 113.25°E in China, with about 16.1M residents (rank #4 by population in this dataset).
The closest reference hub to Guangzhou is Singapore, about 2,625 km away as the crow flies.
Shenzhen is the closest indexed city, roughly 105 km from Guangzhou.
Guangzhou Baiyun International Airport (CAN) is the closest curated airport reference, about 31 km from Guangzhou.
Dragon Boat Festival is the next upcoming holiday in China, on Friday, June 19, 2026.
Guangzhou uses Chinese yuan (CNY, symbol ¥) as the local currency of China.
The longest day of 2026 in Guangzhou falls on Jun 14 with about 13h 33m of daylight. The shortest is Dec 15 with 10h 43m; the year-round average is 12h 9m.
China spans 2 IANA time zones in total; Guangzhou's canonical zone for this page is Asia/Shanghai.
In Guangzhou 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.