Indexed entity
Kowloon is the kowloon-HK record in Hong Kong SAR China: country slug hong-kong, city slug kowloon, ISO HK, continent Asia, canonical IANA zone Asia/Hong_Kong.
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Live local time
Kowloon, Hong Kong SAR China
06:46:41 PMTuesday, June 2, 2026 · Asia/Hong_Kong
Quick answer
It is currently 06:46:41 PM (HKT, UTC+08:00) in Kowloon, 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
31°C
27°C
80% rain
Thu
31°C
27°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 Kowloon, not permanent claims; verify legal, travel, market, or compliance decisions with official local sources.
Live values rendered at Jun 2, 10:46 AM UTC.
Current local time
06:46:41 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 Kowloon 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 Kowloon, Hong Kong SAR China.
Snapshot Jun 2, 2026 · 18:46 GMT+8
No reference-city overlap right now
Kowloon 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
11:46 AM / -7h
New York
06:46 AM / -12h
Los Angeles
03:46 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
22.32°N, 114.18°E
Use these reference hubs as a first-pass call plan before opening a full meeting planner.
London
11:46 AM / -7h
Use as a follow-up or async handoff, not an immediate-call default.
New York
06:46 AM / -12h
Use as a follow-up or async handoff, not an immediate-call default.
Los Angeles
03:46 AM / -15h
Use as a follow-up or async handoff, not an immediate-call default.
Dubai
02:46 PM / -4h
Use as a follow-up or async handoff, not an immediate-call default.
Singapore
06:46 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 Kowloon.
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 Kowloon 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
Kowloon 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 Kowloon.
Canonical route
/time/hong-kong/kowloon/
Catalog identity
kowloon-HK · HK · Asia
Coordinate cell
22.32°N, 114.18°E · lat 22.317 · lon 114.183 · cell 2232:11418
Population record
2,232,339 residents · country rank 3
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 · 4 km
Nearest world hub
Singapore · 2,587 km
Closest airport references
HKG Hong Kong 28 km
Zone peer roster
Hong Kong, Hong Kong · New Territories, Hong Kong · Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong
The page below keeps the timezone answer attached to the real local record for Kowloon: country facts, coordinate bands, nearby-city distances, airport references, and current calendar signals.
Kowloon is the kowloon-HK record in Hong Kong SAR China: country slug hong-kong, city slug kowloon, ISO HK, continent Asia, canonical IANA zone Asia/Hong_Kong.
22.32°N, 114.18°E; Northern Hemisphere, Eastern Hemisphere; rounded latitude band 22 and longitude band 114; exact decimal pair 22.31667, 114.18333.
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 Kowloon 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, 4 km]; Hong Kong Island [hong-kong-island-HK, HK, Asia/Hong_Kong, 6 km]; New Territories [new-territories-HK, HK, Asia/Hong_Kong, 14 km]; Shenzhen [shenzhen-CN, CN, Asia/Shanghai, 28 km]; Macau [macau-MO, MO, Asia/Macau, 67 km]; Taipa [taipa-MO, MO, Asia/Macau, 67 km]; Sé [se-MO, MO, Asia/Macau, 67 km]; Luhuan [luhuan-MO, MO, Asia/Macau, 69 km]
Kowloon 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 2,587 km; Tokyo 2,875 km; Dubai 5,956 km; Sydney 7,374 km; London 9,624 km; Los Angeles 11,649 km; New York 12,956 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].
Kowloon renders Jun 2, 2026 · 18:46 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 Kowloon.
Kowloon is a manual-dossier city; rank #3 of 4 retained Hong Kong SAR China city pages. The route is /time/hong-kong/kowloon/ and the city id is kowloon-HK.
Kowloon 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.
Kowloon is pinned at 22.32°N, 114.18°E; Hong Kong (4 km); Singapore (2,587 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.
Kowloon 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.
Kowloon City: Kowloon City is an area in New Kowloon, Hong Kong. It is part of Kowloon City District.
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.
Kowloon 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°, Kowloon'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 15 (13h 30m)
Shortest day
Dec 16 (10h 46m)
Year-round average
12h 9m
Annual swing
2h 44m
See the full daylight curve for Kowloon at /sun/kowloon/.
Each row projects a hub's 09:00-17:00 local working day into Kowloon local time so a glance reveals when each market is reachable from this city.
| Hub | IANA zone | Window in Kowloon |
|---|---|---|
| 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
Kowloon is the densely populated peninsula of Hong Kong that lies across Victoria Harbour from Hong Kong Island, with a resident population of well over 2 million on a compact land area, making it one of the most densely populated places on Earth. It observes Hong Kong Time (HKT, UTC+8) year-round; Hong Kong last used daylight saving in 1979 and has stayed on a single offset since. Kowloon was ceded to Britain in 1860 and, with the New Territories, returned to Chinese sovereignty in 1997 as part of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region. The peninsula contains major commercial and tourist districts such as Tsim Sha Tsui and Mong Kok, and was formerly home to the notorious Kowloon Walled City, an ungoverned high-density enclave demolished in the early 1990s.
Sources
Last verified 2026-05-20 (manual).
Reference fields include Kowloon's city id, coordinates, timezone, country profile, nearby cities, airport links, holidays, weather, and related event/market context.
Snapshot at render time: 06:46:41 PM on Tuesday, June 2, 2026 in Kowloon (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 Kowloon local time, with sunrise/sunset and DST stats per page.
ICML 2026
keynoteMonday, July 6, 2026
34 days to go
Adobe MAX 2026
keynoteTuesday, November 10, 2026
161 days to go
NeurIPS 2026
keynoteSunday, December 6, 2026
187 days to go
Xbox Games Showcase 2026
keynoteSunday, June 7, 2026
5 days to go
Code with Claude Tokyo 2026
keynoteWednesday, June 10, 2026
8 days to go
Population
2.2M
Coordinates
22.32, 114.18
Timezone
Asia/Hong_Kong
Indexed airports
1
Capital
City of Victoria
Languages
English, Chinese
Currency
HKD ($)
Country area
1,104 km²
Kowloon, Hong Kong SAR China (population rank #3 in this dataset). Time zone: Asia/Hong_Kong (HKT, UTC+08:00); population ~2.2M.
Coordinates: 22.32°N, 114.18°E. Northern Hemisphere tropics, ~2477 km from the equator.
Today the sun rises around 05:38 AM and sets around 07:03 PM in Kowloon — about 13h 25m of daylight. Hong Kong SAR China stays on standard time here, so UTC+08:00 is stable through the year.
Hong Kong (4 km from Kowloon) gives this page its nearest mapped city context, with 1 curated airport pages indexed for Hong Kong SAR China.
Next national holiday: Dragon Boat Festival, 2026-06-19.
Kowloon is indexed as a Asia city in the HK country record, using Asia/Hong_Kong as its canonical IANA timezone. The canonical route for this city is /time/hong-kong/kowloon/.
Location context: 22.32°N, 114.18°E; population 2,232,339; nearest indexed city Hong Kong is about 4 km away; closest reference hub is Singapore, about 2,587 km away.
Country planning context: capital City of Victoria; subregion Eastern Asia; languages English, Chinese; currency HKD ($); 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.
Kowloon 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°, Kowloon'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.
Kowloon sits at 22.32°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 2.2 million residents in the city proper.
Related clock anchors for Kowloon: 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 Kowloon.
City time, coordinate and population facts on this page are derived from the following authoritative datasets.
Distances from Kowloon: closest hubs Singapore (~2,587 km), Tokyo (~2,875 km), Dubai (~5,956 km); farthest indexed hub São Paulo (~18,047 km).
Kowloon sits inside Hong Kong SAR China — the Eastern Asia subregion, capital City of Victoria, languages English, Chinese, currency HKD ($).
Closest indexed cities to Kowloon: Hong Kong (4 km), Hong Kong Island (6 km), New Territories (14 km), Shenzhen (28 km).
Upcoming country holiday signals around Kowloon: 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 Kowloon: HKG Hong Kong (28 km).
Hong Kong International AirportHKG
Hong Kong · 28 km from Kowloon
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 | 11:46 AM | -7h | Check the overlap widget below |
| New York | 06:46 AM | -12h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Los Angeles | 03:46 AM | -15h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Dubai | 02:46 PM | -4h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Singapore | 06:46 PM | +0h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Tokyo | 07:46 PM | +1h | Check the overlap widget below |
| Sydney | 08:46 PM | +2h | Check the overlap widget below |
| São Paulo | 07:46 AM | -11h | Check the overlap widget below |
Hong Kong
Hong Kong SAR China
Approx. 4 km away
Hong Kong Island
Hong Kong SAR China
Approx. 6 km away
New Territories
Hong Kong SAR China
Approx. 14 km away
Shenzhen
China
Approx. 28 km away
Macau
Macao SAR China
Approx. 67 km away
Taipa
Macao SAR China
Approx. 67 km away
Sé
Macao SAR China
Approx. 67 km away
Luhuan
Macao SAR China
Approx. 69 km away
Kowloon is in the Asia/Hong_Kong timezone (HKT), with a UTC offset of +08:00.
Kowloon 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 Kowloon is UTC+08:00.
No. The business-hours blocks use a simple 09:00-17:00 local-time planning window for Kowloon, 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 · 18:46 GMT+8. Static city facts are reviewed separately and come from curated timezone, city, airport, holiday, and country-profile datasets.
Kowloon sits at 22.32°N, 114.18°E in Hong Kong SAR China, with about 2.2M residents (rank #3 by population in this dataset).
The closest reference hub to Kowloon is Singapore, about 2,587 km away as the crow flies.
Hong Kong is the closest indexed city, roughly 4 km from Kowloon.
Hong Kong International Airport (HKG) is the closest curated airport reference, about 28 km from Kowloon.
Dragon Boat Festival is the next upcoming holiday in Hong Kong SAR China, on Friday, June 19, 2026.
Kowloon uses Hong Kong dollar (HKD, symbol $) as the local currency of Hong Kong SAR China.
The longest day of 2026 in Kowloon falls on Jun 15 with about 13h 30m of daylight. The shortest is Dec 16 with 10h 46m; the year-round average is 12h 9m.
In Kowloon 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.