Indexed entity
Shanghai is the shanghai-CN record in China: country slug china, city slug shanghai, ISO CN, continent Asia, canonical IANA zone Asia/Shanghai.
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Live local time
Shanghai, China
06:42:53 PMTuesday, June 2, 2026 · Asia/Shanghai
Quick answer
It is currently 06:42:53 PM (CST, UTC+08:00) in Shanghai, China — Afternoon.
Pronunciation
Updated 8 days ago
Right now
32°C
Cloudy
3-day forecast
Tue
29°C
25°C
99% rain
Wed
28°C
23°C
35% rain
Thu
30°C
23°C
49% rain
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
04:50 AM
Sunset
06:53 PM
Day length
14h 3m
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 Shanghai, not permanent claims; verify legal, travel, market, or compliance decisions with official local sources.
Live values rendered at Jun 2, 10:42 AM UTC.
Current local time
06:42:53 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 Shanghai right now
Nearest airport
SHA
Shanghai Hongqiao International Airport · 12 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 Shanghai, China.
Snapshot Jun 2, 2026 · 18:42 GMT+8
No reference-city overlap right now
Shanghai 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
11:42 AM / -7h
New York
06:42 AM / -12h
Los Angeles
03:42 AM / -15h
Schedule risk
Dragon Boat Festival on Friday, June 19, 2026
Travel cue
SHA Shanghai (Minhang), 12 km
Daylight cue
Today's daylight window is 04:50 AM to 06:53 PM, with solar noon around 11:52 AM and total daylight of 14h 3m.
Mapped location
31.22°N, 121.46°E
Use these reference hubs as a first-pass call plan before opening a full meeting planner.
London
11:42 AM / -7h
Use as a follow-up or async handoff, not an immediate-call default.
New York
06:42 AM / -12h
Use as a follow-up or async handoff, not an immediate-call default.
Los Angeles
03:42 AM / -15h
Use as a follow-up or async handoff, not an immediate-call default.
Dubai
02:42 PM / -4h
Use as a follow-up or async handoff, not an immediate-call default.
Singapore
06:42 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 Shanghai.
SHA · Shanghai Hongqiao International Airport
Shanghai (Minhang)
PVG · Shanghai Pudong International Airport
Shanghai (Pudong)
WUX · Sunan Shuofang International Airport
Wuxi
HGH · Hangzhou Xiaoshan International Airport
Hangzhou
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 Shanghai 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: SHA Shanghai (Minhang), 12 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
Shanghai 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 Shanghai.
Canonical route
/time/china/shanghai/
Catalog identity
shanghai-CN · CN · Asia
Coordinate cell
31.22°N, 121.46°E · lat 31.222 · lon 121.458 · cell 3122:12146
Population record
24,874,500 residents · country rank 1
Zone snapshot
Asia/Shanghai · GMT+8 · UTC+08:00
January / July offsets
UTC+08:00 / UTC+08:00
Nearest indexed neighbor
New Taipei City, Taiwan · 685 km
Nearest world hub
Tokyo · 1,756 km
Closest airport references
SHA Shanghai (Minhang) 12 km · PVG Shanghai (Pudong) 34 km · WUX Wuxi 102 km · HGH Hangzhou 147 km
Zone peer roster
Beijing, China · Shenzhen, China · Guangzhou, China
The page below keeps the timezone answer attached to the real local record for Shanghai: country facts, coordinate bands, nearby-city distances, airport references, and current calendar signals.
Shanghai is the shanghai-CN record in China: country slug china, city slug shanghai, ISO CN, continent Asia, canonical IANA zone Asia/Shanghai.
31.22°N, 121.46°E; Northern Hemisphere, Eastern Hemisphere; rounded latitude band 31 and longitude band 121; exact decimal pair 31.22222, 121.45806.
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 Shanghai 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.
New Taipei City [new-taipei-city-TW, TW, Asia/Taipei, 685 km]; Taipei [taipei-TW, TW, Asia/Taipei, 686 km]; Taichung [taichung-TW, TW, Asia/Taipei, 790 km]; Busan [busan-KR, KR, Asia/Seoul, 826 km]; Daegu [daegu-KR, KR, Asia/Seoul, 839 km]; Incheon [incheon-KR, KR, Asia/Seoul, 844 km]; Seoul [seoul-KR, KR, Asia/Seoul, 868 km]; Namp’o [namp-o-KP, KP, Asia/Pyongyang, 910 km]
Shanghai 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 1,756 km; Singapore 3,804 km; Dubai 6,425 km; Sydney 7,881 km; London 9,197 km; Los Angeles 10,436 km; New York 11,860 km; São Paulo 18,564 km
SHA Shanghai Hongqiao International Airport in Shanghai (Minhang) [CN, 12 km]; PVG Shanghai Pudong International Airport in Shanghai (Pudong) [CN, 34 km]; WUX Sunan Shuofang International Airport in Wuxi [CN, 102 km]; HGH Hangzhou Xiaoshan International Airport in Hangzhou [CN, 147 km]; NKG Nanjing Lukou International Airport in Nanjing [CN, 252 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].
Shanghai renders Jun 2, 2026 · 18:42 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 Shanghai.
Shanghai is a manual-dossier city; rank #1 of 8 retained China city pages. The route is /time/china/shanghai/ and the city id is shanghai-CN.
Shanghai 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.
Shanghai is pinned at 31.22°N, 121.46°E; New Taipei City (685 km); Tokyo (1,756 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.
SHA Shanghai Hongqiao International Airport (12 km) · Dragon Boat Festival (Friday, June 19, 2026) · 25 country airport references · 6 holidays in the current country-year snapshot.
Shanghai 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.
Shanghai: Shanghai is a direct-administered municipality and the most populous urban area in China. It has a population of 29,558,908 in the urban area as of 2025. The city is located on the Chinese shoreline on the southern estuary of the Yangtze River, with the Huangpu River bisecting the city. Shanghai is a global center for finance, business and economics, research, science and technology, manufacturing, transportation, tourism, and culture. The Port of Shanghai is the world's busiest container port. As of 2022, the Greater Shanghai metropolitan area was estimated to produce a gross metropolitan product (nominal) of nearly 13 trillion RMB.
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.
Shanghai 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 121.46°, Shanghai's mean solar noon falls about 6 minutes before civil 12:00 under the year-round civil offset — local sunrise and sunset run earlier 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 18 (14h 11m)
Shortest day
Dec 17 (10h 7m)
Year-round average
12h 10m
Annual swing
4h 4m
See the full daylight curve for Shanghai at /sun/shanghai/.
Each row projects a hub's 09:00-17:00 local working day into Shanghai local time so a glance reveals when each market is reachable from this city.
| Hub | IANA zone | Window in Shanghai |
|---|---|---|
| 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
Shanghai is the most populous city proper in China with about 24 million residents and is one of the four direct-administered municipalities (alongside Beijing, Tianjin, and Chongqing). China Standard Time (CST, UTC+8) is the single civil time across the country with no daylight saving, despite China spanning five geographic time zones. The Port of Shanghai has been the world's busiest container port by TEU throughput since 2010, and the Shanghai Stock Exchange is one of the world's largest by market capitalization. The Pudong New Area on the east bank of the Huangpu River is the city's financial district, home to the Shanghai Tower (the tallest building in China), the Jin Mao Tower, and the headquarters of the People's Bank of China's Shanghai branch.
Sources
Last verified 2026-05-09 (manual).
Reference fields include Shanghai's city id, coordinates, timezone, country profile, nearby cities, airport links, holidays, weather, and related event/market context.
Snapshot at render time: 06:42:53 PM on Tuesday, June 2, 2026 in Shanghai (UTC+08:00, CST).
Status
Nighttime
Week Number
Week 23
Day of Year
Day 153
Days Remaining
212
Sunrise and sunset
04:50 AM to 06:53 PM
Day length 14h 3m · Solar noon 11:52 AM
Next country holiday
Dragon Boat Festival
Friday, June 19, 2026 · Public
Tracked countdowns rendered for Shanghai local time, with sunrise/sunset and DST stats per page.
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Population
24.9M
Coordinates
31.22, 121.46
Timezone
Asia/Shanghai
Indexed airports
25
Capital
Beijing
Languages
Chinese
Currency
CNY (¥)
Country area
9,706,961 km²
Shanghai, China (population rank #1 in this dataset). Time zone: Asia/Shanghai (CST, UTC+08:00); population ~24.9M.
Coordinates: 31.22°N, 121.46°E. Northern Hemisphere subtropics, ~3466 km from the equator.
Today the sun rises around 04:50 AM and sets around 06:53 PM in Shanghai — about 14h 3m of daylight. China stays on standard time here, so UTC+08:00 is stable through the year.
New Taipei City (685 km from Shanghai) 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.
Shanghai 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/shanghai/.
Location context: 31.22°N, 121.46°E; population 24,874,500; nearest indexed city New Taipei City is about 685 km away; closest reference hub is Tokyo, about 1,756 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.
Shanghai 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 121.46°, Shanghai's mean solar noon falls about 6 minutes before civil 12:00 under the year-round civil offset — local sunrise and sunset run earlier on the clock than they would on true solar time.
Shanghai sits at 31.22°N in the northern hemisphere — daylight runs roughly 14 hours 2 minutes on the June solstice and about 9 hours 58 minutes on the December solstice.
Megacity with roughly 24.9 million urban residents — among the largest metropolitan areas in the world.
Related clock anchors for Shanghai: Beijing (same time), San Francisco (−15h), Los Angeles (−15h), Tokyo (+1h), 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 Shanghai.
City time, coordinate and population facts on this page are derived from the following authoritative datasets.
Distances from Shanghai: closest hubs Tokyo (~1,756 km), Singapore (~3,804 km), Dubai (~6,425 km); farthest indexed hub São Paulo (~18,564 km).
Shanghai sits inside China — the Eastern Asia subregion, capital Beijing, languages Chinese, currency CNY (¥).
Closest indexed cities to Shanghai: New Taipei City (685 km), Taipei (686 km), Taichung (790 km), Busan (826 km).
Upcoming country holiday signals around Shanghai: Dragon Boat Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival, National Day. Bake those into launch, on-call, and travel windows for China.
Closest curated airport references from Shanghai: SHA Shanghai (Minhang) (12 km), PVG Shanghai (Pudong) (34 km), WUX Wuxi (102 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.
Shanghai Hongqiao International AirportSHA
Shanghai (Minhang) · 12 km from Shanghai
Approx. transfer or flight-planning window: 46m
Shanghai Pudong International AirportPVG
Shanghai (Pudong) · 34 km from Shanghai
Approx. transfer or flight-planning window: 48m
Sunan Shuofang International AirportWUX
Wuxi · 102 km from Shanghai
Approx. transfer or flight-planning window: 53m
Hangzhou Xiaoshan International AirportHGH
Hangzhou · 147 km from Shanghai
Approx. transfer or flight-planning window: 56m
Nanjing Lukou International AirportNKG
Nanjing · 252 km from Shanghai
Approx. transfer or flight-planning window: 1h 4m
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 | 11:42 AM | -7h | Check the overlap widget below |
| New York | 06:42 AM | -12h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Los Angeles | 03:42 AM | -15h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Dubai | 02:42 PM | -4h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Singapore | 06:42 PM | +0h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Tokyo | 07:42 PM | +1h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Sydney | 08:42 PM | +2h | Check the overlap widget below |
| São Paulo | 07:42 AM | -11h | Check the overlap widget below |
Shanghai Hongqiao International AirportSHA
Shanghai (Minhang) · 12 km away
Shanghai Pudong International AirportPVG
Shanghai (Pudong) · 34 km away
Sunan Shuofang International AirportWUX
Wuxi · 102 km away
Hangzhou Xiaoshan International AirportHGH
Hangzhou · 147 km away
Nanjing Lukou International AirportNKG
Nanjing · 252 km away
Shanghai is in the Asia/Shanghai timezone (CST), with a UTC offset of +08:00.
Shanghai 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 Shanghai is UTC+08:00.
No. The business-hours blocks use a simple 09:00-17:00 local-time planning window for Shanghai, 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 · 18:42 GMT+8. Static city facts are reviewed separately and come from curated timezone, city, airport, holiday, and country-profile datasets.
Shanghai sits at 31.22°N, 121.46°E in China, with about 24.9M residents (rank #1 by population in this dataset).
The closest reference hub to Shanghai is Tokyo, about 1,756 km away as the crow flies.
New Taipei City is the closest indexed city, roughly 685 km from Shanghai.
Shanghai Hongqiao International Airport (SHA) is the closest curated airport reference, about 12 km from Shanghai.
Dragon Boat Festival is the next upcoming holiday in China, on Friday, June 19, 2026.
Shanghai uses Chinese yuan (CNY, symbol ¥) as the local currency of China.
The longest day of 2026 in Shanghai falls on Jun 18 with about 14h 11m of daylight. The shortest is Dec 17 with 10h 7m; the year-round average is 12h 10m.
China spans 2 IANA time zones in total; Shanghai's canonical zone for this page is Asia/Shanghai.
In Shanghai 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.