Indexed entity
Hong Kong Island is the hong-kong-island-HK record in Hong Kong SAR China: country slug hong-kong, city slug hong-kong-island, ISO HK, continent Asia, canonical IANA zone Asia/Hong_Kong.
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Live local time
Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong SAR China
06:48:03 PMTuesday, June 2, 2026 · Asia/Hong_Kong
Quick answer
It is currently 06:48:03 PM (HKT, UTC+08:00) in Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong SAR China — Afternoon.
Pronunciation
Updated 8 days ago
Right now
30°C
Partly cloudy
3-day forecast
Tue
30°C
27°C
93% rain
Wed
30°C
26°C
80% rain
Thu
31°C
26°C
24% rain
In 17 days
Fri, Jun 19, 2026
PublicIn 29 days
香港特別行政區成立紀念日 (Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Establishment Day)
Wed, Jul 1, 2026
PublicIn 116 days
中秋節翌日 (Day following the Mid-Autumn Festival)
Sat, Sep 26, 2026
PublicUpdated 2026-05-22 · ECB rates
Code
Hong Kong Dollar
1 USD = 7.837 HKD
Quick conversions
Today
Sunrise
05:38 AM
Sunset
07:03 PM
Day length
13h 25m
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 Hong Kong Island, not permanent claims; verify legal, travel, market, or compliance decisions with official local sources.
Live values rendered at Jun 2, 10:48 AM UTC.
Current local time
06:48:03 PM
Tuesday, June 2, 2026
Time zone
HKT
Asia/Hong_Kong · UTC+08:00
Next holiday
Dragon Boat Festival
Friday, June 19, 2026 · Public
Business overlap now
0 / 8
Reference markets are overlapping with Hong Kong Island right now
Nearest airport
HKG
Hong Kong International Airport · 28 km
Indexed airports
1
Curated airport references available for Hong Kong SAR China
Coordination board
A compact checklist for calls, launches, travel handoffs, and date-sensitive work tied to Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong SAR China.
Snapshot Jun 2, 2026 · 18:48 GMT+8
No reference-city overlap right now
Hong Kong Island 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
11:48 AM / -7h
New York
06:48 AM / -12h
Los Angeles
03:48 AM / -15h
Schedule risk
Dragon Boat Festival on Friday, June 19, 2026
Travel cue
HKG Hong Kong, 28 km
Daylight cue
Today's daylight window is 05:38 AM to 07:03 PM, with solar noon around 12:21 PM and total daylight of 13h 25m.
Mapped location
22.26°N, 114.18°E
Use these reference hubs as a first-pass call plan before opening a full meeting planner.
London
11:48 AM / -7h
Use as a follow-up or async handoff, not an immediate-call default.
New York
06:48 AM / -12h
Use as a follow-up or async handoff, not an immediate-call default.
Los Angeles
03:48 AM / -15h
Use as a follow-up or async handoff, not an immediate-call default.
Dubai
02:48 PM / -4h
Use as a follow-up or async handoff, not an immediate-call default.
Singapore
06:48 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 Hong Kong Island.
HKG · Hong Kong International Airport
Hong Kong
Lock the timezone, not the offset
Use Asia/Hong_Kong 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 Hong Kong Island 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: HKG Hong Kong, 28 km.
Guard against stale assumptions
No upcoming offset change was detected in the next two calendar years for Asia/Hong_Kong. Editorial review date: 2026-04-30.
Watch the DST and holiday edge cases
Hong Kong Island 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 Hong Kong Island.
Canonical route
/time/hong-kong/hong-kong-island/
Catalog identity
hong-kong-island-HK · HK · Asia
Coordinate cell
22.26°N, 114.18°E · lat 22.263 · lon 114.184 · cell 2226:11418
Population record
1,195,529 residents · country rank 4
Zone snapshot
Asia/Hong_Kong · GMT+8 · UTC+08:00
January / July offsets
UTC+08:00 / UTC+08:00
Nearest indexed neighbor
Hong Kong, Hong Kong · 2 km
Nearest world hub
Singapore · 2,581 km
Closest airport references
HKG Hong Kong 28 km
Zone peer roster
Hong Kong, Hong Kong · New Territories, Hong Kong · Kowloon, Hong Kong
The page below keeps the timezone answer attached to the real local record for Hong Kong Island: country facts, coordinate bands, nearby-city distances, airport references, and current calendar signals.
Hong Kong Island is the hong-kong-island-HK record in Hong Kong SAR China: country slug hong-kong, city slug hong-kong-island, ISO HK, continent Asia, canonical IANA zone Asia/Hong_Kong.
22.26°N, 114.18°E; Northern Hemisphere, Eastern Hemisphere; rounded latitude band 22 and longitude band 114; exact decimal pair 22.26302, 114.18419.
Hong Kong SAR China: official name Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China; capital City of Victoria; region Asia; subregion Eastern Asia; country population 7,527,500; area 1,104 km²; languages English, Chinese; currencies HKD Hong Kong dollar. This is the country layer behind the Hong Kong Island clock, not a generic timezone-only record.
Hong Kong: Hong Kong is a special administrative region of China. Situated on China's southern coast just south of Shenzhen, it consists of Hong Kong Island, Kowloon, and the New Territories. With 7.5 million residents in a 1,114-square-kilometre (430 sq mi) territory, Hong Kong is the fourth-most densely populated region in the world. Source: Wikipedia.
Hong Kong [hong-kong-HK, HK, Asia/Hong_Kong, 2 km]; Kowloon [kowloon-HK, HK, Asia/Hong_Kong, 6 km]; New Territories [new-territories-HK, HK, Asia/Hong_Kong, 19 km]; Shenzhen [shenzhen-CN, CN, Asia/Shanghai, 34 km]; Taipa [taipa-MO, MO, Asia/Macau, 66 km]; Sé [se-MO, MO, Asia/Macau, 66 km]; Macau [macau-MO, MO, Asia/Macau, 66 km]; Luhuan [luhuan-MO, MO, Asia/Macau, 67 km]
Hong Kong Island is part of this indexed country cluster: Hong Kong [hong-kong-HK, Asia/Hong_Kong, pop 7,396,076]; New Territories [new-territories-HK, Asia/Hong_Kong, pop 3,984,077]; Kowloon [kowloon-HK, Asia/Hong_Kong, pop 2,232,339]; Hong Kong Island [hong-kong-island-HK, Asia/Hong_Kong, pop 1,195,529].
Singapore 2,581 km; Tokyo 2,878 km; Dubai 5,958 km; Sydney 7,369 km; London 9,629 km; Los Angeles 11,653 km; New York 12,961 km; São Paulo 18,047 km
HKG Hong Kong International Airport in Hong Kong [HK, 28 km]
Country-level airport pages linked from this city context include HKG Hong Kong International Airport in Hong Kong [HK].
Hong Kong Island renders Jun 2, 2026 · 18:48 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 Hong Kong Island.
Hong Kong Island is a manual-dossier city; rank #4 of 4 retained Hong Kong SAR China city pages. The route is /time/hong-kong/hong-kong-island/ and the city id is hong-kong-island-HK.
Hong Kong Island 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.
Hong Kong Island is pinned at 22.26°N, 114.18°E; Hong Kong (2 km); Singapore (2,581 km).
Asia/Hong_Kong resolves to stable UTC+08:00 offset across January and July. 3 retained city pages share this zone; 0 same-zone anchors are outside Hong Kong SAR China.
HKG Hong Kong International Airport (28 km) · Dragon Boat Festival (Friday, June 19, 2026) · 1 country airport reference · 17 holidays in the current country-year snapshot.
Hong Kong Island 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.
Hong Kong Island: Hong Kong Island is an island in the southern part of Hong Kong. The island, known originally and on road signs simply as Hong Kong, has a land area of approximately 78.59 square kilometres (30.34 sq mi) and a population of 1,289,500 with a population density of 16,390 per square kilometre (42,400/sq mi), as of 2023. It is the second largest island in Hong Kong, with the largest being Lantau Island. Hong Kong Island forms one of the three areas of Hong Kong, with the other two being Kowloon and the New Territories.
Hong Kong last observed daylight saving time in 1979 and has stayed at UTC+8 year-round ever since.
Hong Kong last observed daylight saving time in 1979 and has stayed at UTC+8 year-round ever since.
Does not observe daylight saving time. The UTC offset (+08:00) is constant year-round.
Hong Kong Island 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 114.18°, Hong Kong Island's mean solar noon falls about 23 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 17 (13h 30m)
Shortest day
Dec 17 (10h 46m)
Year-round average
12h 9m
Annual swing
2h 44m
See the full daylight curve for Hong Kong Island at /sun/hong-kong-island/.
Each row projects a hub's 09:00-17:00 local working day into Hong Kong Island local time so a glance reveals when each market is reachable from this city.
| Hub | IANA zone | Window in Hong Kong Island |
|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| Tokyo | Asia/Tokyo | 08:00 - 16:00 |
Public holidays in 2026
17
Hong Kong Island is one of the three main territories of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of China, with a population of roughly 1.2 million, and it holds the historic core of the city. The territory observes Hong Kong Time (HKT, UTC+8) year-round and has not used daylight saving since 1979. Ceded to Britain in 1842 and returned to Chinese sovereignty in 1997, the island contains Central, Hong Kong's principal financial district, home to the Hong Kong Stock Exchange, one of the largest in the world, and a dense skyline of office towers. Victoria Peak rises above the northern shore, and the Star Ferry crosses Victoria Harbour to Kowloon on the mainland side.
Sources
Last verified 2026-05-20 (manual).
Reference fields include Hong Kong Island's city id, coordinates, timezone, country profile, nearby cities, airport links, holidays, weather, and related event/market context.
Snapshot at render time: 06:48:03 PM on Tuesday, June 2, 2026 in Hong Kong Island (UTC+08:00, HKT).
Status
Nighttime
Week Number
Week 23
Day of Year
Day 153
Days Remaining
212
Sunrise and sunset
05:38 AM to 07:03 PM
Day length 13h 25m · Solar noon 12:21 PM
Next country holiday
Dragon Boat Festival
Friday, June 19, 2026 · Public
Tracked countdowns rendered for Hong Kong Island local time, with sunrise/sunset and DST stats per page.
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8 days to go
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34 days to go
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187 days to go
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5 days to go
Population
1.2M
Coordinates
22.26, 114.18
Timezone
Asia/Hong_Kong
Indexed airports
1
Capital
City of Victoria
Languages
English, Chinese
Currency
HKD ($)
Country area
1,104 km²
Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong SAR China (population rank #4 in this dataset). Time zone: Asia/Hong_Kong (HKT, UTC+08:00); population ~1.2M.
Coordinates: 22.26°N, 114.18°E. Northern Hemisphere tropics, ~2471 km from the equator.
Today the sun rises around 05:38 AM and sets around 07:03 PM in Hong Kong Island — about 13h 25m of daylight. Hong Kong SAR China stays on standard time here, so UTC+08:00 is stable through the year.
Hong Kong (2 km from Hong Kong Island) gives this page its nearest mapped city context, with 1 curated airport pages indexed for Hong Kong SAR China.
Next national holiday: Dragon Boat Festival, 2026-06-19.
Hong Kong Island is indexed as a Asia city in the HK country record, using Asia/Hong_Kong as its canonical IANA timezone. The canonical route for this city is /time/hong-kong/hong-kong-island/.
Location context: 22.26°N, 114.18°E; population 1,195,529; nearest indexed city Hong Kong is about 2 km away; closest reference hub is Singapore, about 2,581 km away.
Country planning context: capital City of Victoria; subregion Eastern Asia; languages English, Chinese; currency HKD ($); area 1,104 km²; 1 curated airport references; next holiday Dragon Boat Festival on 2026-06-19.
Hong Kong last observed daylight saving time in 1979 and has stayed at UTC+8 year-round ever since.
Does not observe daylight saving time. The UTC offset (+08:00) is constant year-round.
Hong Kong Island 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 114.18°, Hong Kong Island's mean solar noon falls about 23 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.
Hong Kong Island sits at 22.26°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.
Major metropolitan area with around 1.2 million residents in the city proper.
Related clock anchors for Hong Kong Island: Hong Kong (same time), San Francisco (−15h), Los Angeles (−15h), Dubai (−4h), Mumbai (−2.5h).
Cross-link to the most-searched comparison pages so you can plan calls and travel between cities.
hong-kong
Tuesday, June 2, 2026
Timezone
HKT
IANA Zone
Asia/Hong Kong
UTC Offset
UTC+08:00
DST Status
Standard Time
Week Number
Week 23
Day of Year
Day 153
Days Remaining
212
Quarter
Q2
Countries at UTC+08:00
Antarctica, Australia, Brunei, Indonesia, Macao, China, Hong Kong, Russia
Other cities in this timezone
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 Hong Kong Island.
City time, coordinate and population facts on this page are derived from the following authoritative datasets.
Distances from Hong Kong Island: closest hubs Singapore (~2,581 km), Tokyo (~2,878 km), Dubai (~5,958 km); farthest indexed hub São Paulo (~18,047 km).
Hong Kong Island sits inside Hong Kong SAR China — the Eastern Asia subregion, capital City of Victoria, languages English, Chinese, currency HKD ($).
Closest indexed cities to Hong Kong Island: Hong Kong (2 km), Kowloon (6 km), New Territories (19 km), Shenzhen (34 km).
Upcoming country holiday signals around Hong Kong Island: Dragon Boat Festival, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Establishment Day, Day following the Mid-Autumn Festival. Bake those into launch, on-call, and travel windows for Hong Kong SAR China.
Closest curated airport references from Hong Kong Island: HKG Hong Kong (28 km).
Hong Kong International AirportHKG
Hong Kong · 28 km from Hong Kong Island
Approx. transfer or flight-planning window: 47m
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 | 11:48 AM | -7h | Check the overlap widget below |
| New York | 06:48 AM | -12h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Los Angeles | 03:48 AM | -15h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Dubai | 02:48 PM | -4h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Singapore | 06:48 PM | +0h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Tokyo | 07:48 PM | +1h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Sydney | 08:48 PM | +2h | Check the overlap widget below |
| São Paulo | 07:48 AM | -11h | Check the overlap widget below |
Hong Kong
Hong Kong SAR China
Approx. 2 km away
Kowloon
Hong Kong SAR China
Approx. 6 km away
New Territories
Hong Kong SAR China
Approx. 19 km away
Shenzhen
China
Approx. 34 km away
Taipa
Macao SAR China
Approx. 66 km away
Sé
Macao SAR China
Approx. 66 km away
Macau
Macao SAR China
Approx. 66 km away
Luhuan
Macao SAR China
Approx. 67 km away
Hong Kong Island is in the Asia/Hong_Kong timezone (HKT), with a UTC offset of +08:00.
Hong Kong Island 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 Hong Kong Island is UTC+08:00.
No. The business-hours blocks use a simple 09:00-17:00 local-time planning window for Hong Kong Island, 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 · 18:48 GMT+8. Static city facts are reviewed separately and come from curated timezone, city, airport, holiday, and country-profile datasets.
Hong Kong Island sits at 22.26°N, 114.18°E in Hong Kong SAR China, with about 1.2M residents (rank #4 by population in this dataset).
The closest reference hub to Hong Kong Island is Singapore, about 2,581 km away as the crow flies.
Hong Kong is the closest indexed city, roughly 2 km from Hong Kong Island.
Hong Kong International Airport (HKG) is the closest curated airport reference, about 28 km from Hong Kong Island.
Dragon Boat Festival is the next upcoming holiday in Hong Kong SAR China, on Friday, June 19, 2026.
Hong Kong Island uses Hong Kong dollar (HKD, symbol $) as the local currency of Hong Kong SAR China.
The longest day of 2026 in Hong Kong Island falls on Jun 17 with about 13h 30m of daylight. The shortest is Dec 17 with 10h 46m; the year-round average is 12h 9m.
In Hong Kong Island 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.