Indexed entity
Shihezi is the shihezi-CN record in China: country slug china, city slug shihezi, ISO CN, continent Asia, canonical IANA zone Asia/Urumqi.
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Live local time
Shihezi, China
04:43:47 PMTuesday, June 2, 2026 · Asia/Urumqi
Quick answer
It is currently 04:43:47 PM (CST, UTC+06:00) in Shihezi, China — Business hours.
Pronunciation
Updated 8 days ago
Right now
26°C
Clear
3-day forecast
Tue
29°C
14°C
Wed
32°C
14°C
Thu
33°C
20°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
04:34 AM
Sunset
07:53 PM
Day length
15h 19m
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 Shihezi, not permanent claims; verify legal, travel, market, or compliance decisions with official local sources.
Live values rendered at Jun 2, 10:43 AM UTC.
Current local time
04:43:47 PM
Tuesday, June 2, 2026
Time zone
CST
Asia/Urumqi · UTC+06:00
Next holiday
Dragon Boat Festival
Friday, June 19, 2026 · Public
Business overlap now
2 / 8
Reference markets are overlapping with Shihezi right now
Nearest airport
INC
Yinchuan Hedong International Airport · 1820 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 Shihezi, China.
Snapshot Jun 2, 2026 · 16:43 GMT+6
2 reference cities are overlapping now
Shihezi is currently inside the simple 09:00-17:00 local planning window.
Local status
In window
Offset now
UTC+06:00
Zone label
GMT+6
London
11:43 AM / -5h
Dubai
02:43 PM / -2h
Schedule risk
Dragon Boat Festival on Friday, June 19, 2026
Travel cue
INC Yinchuan, 1820 km
Daylight cue
Today's daylight window is 04:34 AM to 07:53 PM, with solar noon around 12:14 PM and total daylight of 15h 19m.
Mapped location
44.30°N, 86.04°E
Use these reference hubs as a first-pass call plan before opening a full meeting planner.
London
11:43 AM / -5h
Good live-call window with Shihezi right now.
New York
06:43 AM / -10h
Use as a follow-up or async handoff, not an immediate-call default.
Los Angeles
03:43 AM / -13h
Use as a follow-up or async handoff, not an immediate-call default.
Dubai
02:43 PM / -2h
Good live-call window with Shihezi right now.
Singapore
06:43 PM / +2h
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 Shihezi.
INC · Yinchuan Hedong International Airport
Yinchuan
CTU · Chengdu Shuangliu International Airport
Chengdu (Shuangliu)
XIY · Xi'an Xianyang International Airport
Xianyang (Weicheng)
TFU · Chengdu Tianfu International Airport
Chengdu (Jianyang)
Lock the timezone, not the offset
Use Asia/Urumqi for future-dated events. Current offset is UTC+06:00; stable January-to-July offset at UTC+06:00.
Pick a live coordination window
Start with London, Dubai because they overlap with Shihezi right now.
Check local interruptions
Dragon Boat Festival on Friday, June 19, 2026. Nearest curated airport reference: INC Yinchuan, 1820 km.
Guard against stale assumptions
No upcoming offset change was detected in the next two calendar years for Asia/Urumqi. Editorial review date: 2026-04-30.
Watch the DST and holiday edge cases
Shihezi 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 Shihezi.
Canonical route
/time/china/shihezi/
Catalog identity
shihezi-CN · CN · Asia
Coordinate cell
44.30°N, 86.04°E · lat 44.302 · lon 86.037 · cell 4430:8604
Population record
572,772 residents · country rank 5
Zone snapshot
Asia/Urumqi · GMT+6 · UTC+06:00
January / July offsets
UTC+06:00 / UTC+06:00
Nearest indexed neighbor
Korla, China · 283 km
Nearest world hub
Dubai · 3,488 km
Closest airport references
INC Yinchuan 1820 km · CTU Chengdu (Shuangliu) 2190 km · XIY Xianyang (Weicheng) 2228 km · TFU Chengdu (Jianyang) 2242 km
Zone peer roster
Korla, China · Aqsu, China · Ürümqi, China
The page below keeps the timezone answer attached to the real local record for Shihezi: country facts, coordinate bands, nearby-city distances, airport references, and current calendar signals.
Shihezi is the shihezi-CN record in China: country slug china, city slug shihezi, ISO CN, continent Asia, canonical IANA zone Asia/Urumqi.
44.30°N, 86.04°E; Northern Hemisphere, Eastern Hemisphere; rounded latitude band 44 and longitude band 86; exact decimal pair 44.30230, 86.03694.
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 Shihezi 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.
Korla [korla-CN, CN, Asia/Urumqi, 283 km]; Aqsu [aqsu-CN, CN, Asia/Urumqi, 584 km]; Khovd [khovd-MN, MN, Asia/Hovd, 596 km]; Karakol [karakol-KG, KG, Asia/Bishkek, 649 km]; Almaty [almaty-KZ, KZ, Asia/Almaty, 741 km]; Ulaangom [ulaangom-MN, MN, Asia/Hovd, 778 km]; Altai [altai-MN, MN, Asia/Hovd, 831 km]; Bishkek [bishkek-KG, KG, Asia/Bishkek, 935 km]
Shihezi 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].
Dubai 3,488 km; Tokyo 4,583 km; Singapore 5,087 km; London 6,093 km; New York 10,354 km; Sydney 10,901 km; Los Angeles 10,963 km; São Paulo 15,163 km
INC Yinchuan Hedong International Airport in Yinchuan [CN, 1820 km]; CTU Chengdu Shuangliu International Airport in Chengdu (Shuangliu) [CN, 2190 km]; XIY Xi'an Xianyang International Airport in Xianyang (Weicheng) [CN, 2228 km]; TFU Chengdu Tianfu International Airport in Chengdu (Jianyang) [CN, 2242 km]; TYN Taiyuan Wusu International Airport in Taiyuan [CN, 2335 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].
Shihezi renders Jun 2, 2026 · 16:43 GMT+6; GMT+6 at UTC+06:00; January UTC+06:00; July UTC+06:00; next holiday Dragon Boat Festival on 2026-06-19.
This evidence pack is what keeps smaller city pages from reading like timezone templates: concrete route, coordinate, population, timezone, neighbor, airport, holiday, and source signals currently available for Shihezi.
Shihezi is a context-and-reference city; rank #5 of 8 retained China city pages. The route is /time/china/shihezi/ and the city id is shihezi-CN.
Shihezi has 15 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.
Shihezi is pinned at 44.30°N, 86.04°E; Korla (283 km); Dubai (3,488 km).
Asia/Urumqi resolves to stable UTC+06:00 offset across January and July. 3 retained city pages share this zone; 0 same-zone anchors are outside China.
INC Yinchuan Hedong International Airport (1820 km) · Dragon Boat Festival (Friday, June 19, 2026) · 25 country airport references · 6 holidays in the current country-year snapshot.
Shihezi 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.
Shihezi: Shihezi is a sub-prefecture-level city in Northern Xinjiang, China. It has a population of 380,130 according to the 2010 census. The city is also home to Shihezi University, the second-largest comprehensive university under the Project 211 in Xinjiang.
China has used a single year-round time zone (UTC+8) since 1949. The local UTC offset (+06:00) is constant year-round.
Shihezi is listed in the dataset snapshot as 6 hours ahead of UTC (offset +06:00). 5 hours ahead of London, 3 hours behind Tokyo.
Geographically at longitude 86.04°, Shihezi's mean solar noon falls about 16 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.
Shihezi sits at 44.30°N in the northern hemisphere — daylight runs roughly 15 hours 20 minutes on the June solstice and about 8 hours 40 minutes on the December solstice.
Shihezi sits at 44.30°N in the northern hemisphere — daylight runs roughly 15 hours 20 minutes on the June solstice and about 8 hours 40 minutes on the December solstice.
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 21 (15h 32m)
Shortest day
Dec 18 (8h 51m)
Year-round average
12h 13m
Annual swing
6h 41m
See the full daylight curve for Shihezi at /sun/shihezi/.
Each row projects a hub's 09:00-17:00 local working day into Shihezi local time so a glance reveals when each market is reachable from this city.
| Hub | IANA zone | Window in Shihezi |
|---|---|---|
| New York | America/New_York | 19:00 - 03:00 (next day) |
| London | Europe/London | 14:00 - 22:00 |
| Frankfurt | Europe/Berlin | 13:00 - 21:00 |
| Dubai | Asia/Dubai | 11:00 - 19:00 |
| Mumbai | Asia/Kolkata | 09:30 - 17:30 |
| Singapore | Asia/Singapore | 07:00 - 15:00 |
| Hong Kong | Asia/Hong_Kong | 07:00 - 15:00 |
| Tokyo | Asia/Tokyo | 06:00 - 14:00 |
IANA time zones in country
2
Public holidays in 2026
6
Reference fields include Shihezi's city id, coordinates, timezone, country profile, nearby cities, airport links, holidays, weather, and related event/market context.
Snapshot at render time: 04:43:47 PM on Tuesday, June 2, 2026 in Shihezi (UTC+06:00, CST).
Status
Daytime
Week Number
Week 23
Day of Year
Day 153
Days Remaining
212
Sunrise and sunset
04:34 AM to 07:53 PM
Day length 15h 19m · Solar noon 12:14 PM
Next country holiday
Dragon Boat Festival
Friday, June 19, 2026 · Public
Tracked countdowns rendered for Shihezi local time, with sunrise/sunset and DST stats per page.
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Population
572.8K
Coordinates
44.30, 86.04
Timezone
Asia/Urumqi
Indexed airports
25
Capital
Beijing
Languages
Chinese
Currency
CNY (¥)
Country area
9,706,961 km²
Shihezi, China (population rank #5 in this dataset). Time zone: Asia/Urumqi (CST, UTC+06:00); population ~572.8K.
Coordinates: 44.30°N, 86.04°E. Northern Hemisphere mid-latitudes, ~4918 km from the equator.
Today the sun rises around 04:34 AM and sets around 07:53 PM in Shihezi — about 15h 19m of daylight. China stays on standard time here, so UTC+06:00 is stable through the year.
Korla (283 km from Shihezi) 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.
Shihezi is indexed as a Asia city in the CN country record, using Asia/Urumqi as its canonical IANA timezone. The canonical route for this city is /time/china/shihezi/.
Location context: 44.30°N, 86.04°E; population 572,772; nearest indexed city Korla is about 283 km away; closest reference hub is Dubai, about 3,488 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 has used a single year-round time zone (UTC+8) since 1949. The local UTC offset (+06:00) is constant year-round.
Shihezi is listed in the dataset snapshot as 6 hours ahead of UTC (offset +06:00). 5 hours ahead of London, 3 hours behind Tokyo.
Geographically at longitude 86.04°, Shihezi's mean solar noon falls about 16 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.
Shihezi sits at 44.30°N in the northern hemisphere — daylight runs roughly 15 hours 20 minutes on the June solstice and about 8 hours 40 minutes on the December solstice.
Sizeable city with about 573 thousand residents in the city proper.
Related clock anchors for Shihezi: Shanghai (+2h), San Francisco (−13h), Los Angeles (−13h), New York City (−10h), Paris (−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/Urumqi
UTC Offset
UTC+06:00
DST Status
Standard Time
Week Number
Week 23
Day of Year
Day 153
Days Remaining
212
Quarter
Q2
London
-5h
New York
-10h
Los Angeles
-13h
Dubai
-2h
Singapore
+2h
Tokyo
+3h
Sydney
+4h
São Paulo
-9h
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 Shihezi.
City time, coordinate and population facts on this page are derived from the following authoritative datasets.
Distances from Shihezi: closest hubs Dubai (~3,488 km), Tokyo (~4,583 km), Singapore (~5,087 km); farthest indexed hub São Paulo (~15,163 km).
Shihezi sits inside China — the Eastern Asia subregion, capital Beijing, languages Chinese, currency CNY (¥).
Closest indexed cities to Shihezi: Korla (283 km), Aqsu (584 km), Khovd (596 km), Karakol (649 km).
Upcoming country holiday signals around Shihezi: Dragon Boat Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival, National Day. Bake those into launch, on-call, and travel windows for China.
Closest curated airport references from Shihezi: INC Yinchuan (1820 km), CTU Chengdu (Shuangliu) (2190 km), XIY Xianyang (Weicheng) (2228 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.
Yinchuan Hedong International AirportINC
Yinchuan · 1820 km from Shihezi
Approx. transfer or flight-planning window: 3h 5m
Chengdu Shuangliu International AirportCTU
Chengdu (Shuangliu) · 2190 km from Shihezi
Approx. transfer or flight-planning window: 3h 33m
Xi'an Xianyang International AirportXIY
Xianyang (Weicheng) · 2228 km from Shihezi
Approx. transfer or flight-planning window: 3h 36m
Chengdu Tianfu International AirportTFU
Chengdu (Jianyang) · 2242 km from Shihezi
Approx. transfer or flight-planning window: 3h 37m
Taiyuan Wusu International AirportTYN
Taiyuan · 2335 km from Shihezi
Approx. transfer or flight-planning window: 3h 45m
Exchange snapshot
Currency snapshot unavailable
Coordination pulse
2 of 8 reference markets are in live business-hour overlap now
| City | Current local time | Difference | Business-hours overlap |
|---|---|---|---|
| London | 11:43 AM | -5h | Good to call now |
| New York | 06:43 AM | -10h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Los Angeles | 03:43 AM | -13h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Dubai | 02:43 PM | -2h | Good to call now |
| Singapore | 06:43 PM | +2h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Tokyo | 07:43 PM | +3h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Sydney | 08:43 PM | +4h | Check the overlap widget below |
| São Paulo | 07:43 AM | -9h | Check the overlap widget below |
Yinchuan Hedong International AirportINC
Yinchuan · 1820 km away
Chengdu Shuangliu International AirportCTU
Chengdu (Shuangliu) · 2190 km away
Xi'an Xianyang International AirportXIY
Xianyang (Weicheng) · 2228 km away
Chengdu Tianfu International AirportTFU
Chengdu (Jianyang) · 2242 km away
Taiyuan Wusu International AirportTYN
Taiyuan · 2335 km away
Shihezi is in the Asia/Urumqi timezone (CST), with a UTC offset of +06:00.
Shihezi does not have a detected daylight-saving offset change in the current IANA rules. The offset resolves to UTC+06:00 in both January and July for this year.
The current UTC offset for Shihezi is UTC+06:00.
No. The business-hours blocks use a simple 09:00-17:00 local-time planning window for Shihezi, 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 · 16:43 GMT+6. Static city facts are reviewed separately and come from curated timezone, city, airport, holiday, and country-profile datasets.
Shihezi sits at 44.30°N, 86.04°E in China, with about 572.8K residents (rank #5 by population in this dataset).
The closest reference hub to Shihezi is Dubai, about 3,488 km away as the crow flies.
Korla is the closest indexed city, roughly 283 km from Shihezi.
Yinchuan Hedong International Airport (INC) is the closest curated airport reference, about 1820 km from Shihezi.
Dragon Boat Festival is the next upcoming holiday in China, on Friday, June 19, 2026.
Shihezi uses Chinese yuan (CNY, symbol ¥) as the local currency of China.
The longest day of 2026 in Shihezi falls on Jun 21 with about 15h 32m of daylight. The shortest is Dec 18 with 8h 51m; the year-round average is 12h 13m.
China spans 2 IANA time zones in total; Shihezi's canonical zone for this page is Asia/Urumqi.
In Shihezi local time, the 09:00-17:00 working day of major hubs falls at: New York 19:00-03:00 (next day); London 14:00-22:00; Frankfurt 13:00-21:00; Dubai 11:00-19:00. These windows shift twice a year when northern-hemisphere DST starts and ends.