Indexed entity
Kaohsiung is the kaohsiung-TW record in Taiwan: country slug taiwan, city slug kaohsiung, ISO TW, continent Asia, canonical IANA zone Asia/Taipei.
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Live local time
Kaohsiung, Taiwan
06:46:41 PMTuesday, June 2, 2026 · Asia/Taipei
Quick answer
It is currently 06:46:41 PM (GMT+8, UTC+08:00) in Kaohsiung, Taiwan — Afternoon.
Pronunciation
Updated 8 days ago
Right now
32°C
Partly cloudy
3-day forecast
Tue
32°C
28°C
Wed
32°C
28°C
Thu
32°C
27°C
Updated 2026-05-22 · ECB rates
Code
New Taiwan Dollar
Live ECB rate not available for this currency.
Conversion rates aren’t published for this currency by the ECB. The local code is shown for reference.
Today
Sunrise
05:13 AM
Sunset
06:39 PM
Day length
13h 26m
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 Kaohsiung, 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
GMT+8
Asia/Taipei · UTC+08:00
Next holiday
No upcoming public holiday in view
Holiday calendar signal unavailable
Business overlap now
0 / 8
Reference markets are overlapping with Kaohsiung right now
Nearest airport
KHH
Kaohsiung International Airport · 6 km
Indexed airports
6
Curated airport references available for Taiwan
Coordination board
A compact checklist for calls, launches, travel handoffs, and date-sensitive work tied to Kaohsiung, Taiwan.
Snapshot Jun 2, 2026 · 18:46 GMT+8
No reference-city overlap right now
Kaohsiung 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
No upcoming country holiday signal in view
Travel cue
KHH Kaohsiung (Xiaogang), 6 km
Daylight cue
Today's daylight window is 05:13 AM to 06:39 PM, with solar noon around 11:56 AM and total daylight of 13h 26m.
Mapped location
22.62°N, 120.31°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 Kaohsiung.
KHH · Kaohsiung International Airport
Kaohsiung (Xiaogang)
MZG · Penghu Magong Airport
Huxi
RMQ · Taichung International Airport / Ching Chuang Kang Air Base
Taichung (Qingshui)
HUN · Hualien Chiashan Airport
Hualien City
Lock the timezone, not the offset
Use Asia/Taipei 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 Kaohsiung right now, so use the comparison table below before sending meeting invites.
Check local interruptions
No upcoming country holiday signal in view. Nearest curated airport reference: KHH Kaohsiung (Xiaogang), 6 km.
Guard against stale assumptions
No upcoming offset change was detected in the next two calendar years for Asia/Taipei. Editorial review date: 2026-04-30.
Watch the DST and holiday edge cases
Kaohsiung has no near-term DST change or holiday interruption in view, but future rules can still be revised by local authorities.
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 Kaohsiung.
Canonical route
/time/taiwan/kaohsiung/
Catalog identity
kaohsiung-TW · TW · Asia
Coordinate cell
22.62°N, 120.31°E · lat 22.616 · lon 120.313 · cell 2262:12031
Population record
2,737,660 residents · country rank 4
Zone snapshot
Asia/Taipei · GMT+8 · UTC+08:00
January / July offsets
UTC+08:00 / UTC+08:00
Nearest indexed neighbor
Taichung, Taiwan · 174 km
Nearest world hub
Tokyo · 2,366 km
Closest airport references
KHH Kaohsiung (Xiaogang) 6 km · MZG Huxi 127 km · RMQ Taichung (Qingshui) 186 km · HUN Hualien City 205 km
Zone peer roster
Taipei, Taiwan · New Taipei City, Taiwan · Taichung, Taiwan
The page below keeps the timezone answer attached to the real local record for Kaohsiung: country facts, coordinate bands, nearby-city distances, airport references, and current calendar signals.
Kaohsiung is the kaohsiung-TW record in Taiwan: country slug taiwan, city slug kaohsiung, ISO TW, continent Asia, canonical IANA zone Asia/Taipei.
22.62°N, 120.31°E; Northern Hemisphere, Eastern Hemisphere; rounded latitude band 22 and longitude band 120; exact decimal pair 22.61626, 120.31333.
Taiwan: official name Republic of China (Taiwan); capital Taipei; region Asia; subregion Eastern Asia; country population 23,317,031; area 36,197 km²; languages Chinese; currencies TWD New Taiwan dollar. This is the country layer behind the Kaohsiung clock, not a generic timezone-only record.
Taiwan: Taiwan, officially the Republic of China (ROC), is a country in East Asia. The main island of Taiwan, also known as Formosa, lies between the East and South China Seas in the northwestern Pacific Ocean, with the People's Republic of China (PRC) to the northwest, Japan to the northeast, and the Philippines to the south. It has an area of 35,808 square kilometers, with mountain ranges dominating the eastern two-thirds and plains in the western third, where its highly urbanized population is concentrated. The combined territories under ROC control consist of 168 islands in total covering 36,193 square kilometers. The largest metropolitan area is formed by Taipei, New Taipei City, and Keelung. With around 23.9 million inhabitants, Taiwan is among the most densely populated countries. Source: Wikipedia.
Taichung [taichung-TW, TW, Asia/Taipei, 174 km]; New Taipei City [new-taipei-city-TW, TW, Asia/Taipei, 296 km]; Taipei [taipei-TW, TW, Asia/Taipei, 298 km]; Kowloon [kowloon-HK, HK, Asia/Hong_Kong, 631 km]; Hong Kong Island [hong-kong-island-HK, HK, Asia/Hong_Kong, 631 km]; Hong Kong [hong-kong-HK, HK, Asia/Hong_Kong, 632 km]; New Territories [new-territories-HK, HK, Asia/Hong_Kong, 637 km]; Shenzhen [shenzhen-CN, CN, Asia/Shanghai, 641 km]
Kaohsiung is part of this indexed country cluster: Taipei [taipei-TW, Asia/Taipei, pop 7,871,900]; New Taipei City [new-taipei-city-TW, Asia/Taipei, pop 4,004,367]; Taichung [taichung-TW, Asia/Taipei, pop 2,850,285]; Kaohsiung [kaohsiung-TW, Asia/Taipei, pop 2,737,660].
Tokyo 2,366 km; Singapore 2,961 km; Dubai 6,552 km; Sydney 7,081 km; London 9,945 km; Los Angeles 11,184 km; New York 12,819 km; São Paulo 18,676 km
KHH Kaohsiung International Airport in Kaohsiung (Xiaogang) [TW, 6 km]; MZG Penghu Magong Airport in Huxi [TW, 127 km]; RMQ Taichung International Airport / Ching Chuang Kang Air Base in Taichung (Qingshui) [TW, 186 km]; HUN Hualien Chiashan Airport in Hualien City [TW, 205 km]; TPE Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport in Taoyuan [TW, 289 km]
Country-level airport pages linked from this city context include HUN Hualien Chiashan Airport in Hualien City [TW]; KHH Kaohsiung International Airport in Kaohsiung (Xiaogang) [TW]; MZG Penghu Magong Airport in Huxi [TW]; RMQ Taichung International Airport / Ching Chuang Kang Air Base in Taichung (Qingshui) [TW]; TPE Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport in Taoyuan [TW]; TSA Taipei Songshan International Airport in Taipei (Songshan) [TW].
Kaohsiung renders Jun 2, 2026 · 18:46 GMT+8; GMT+8 at UTC+08:00; January UTC+08:00; July UTC+08:00; next holiday not currently surfaced.
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 Kaohsiung.
Kaohsiung is a manual-dossier city; rank #4 of 4 retained Taiwan city pages. The route is /time/taiwan/kaohsiung/ and the city id is kaohsiung-TW.
Kaohsiung 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.
Kaohsiung is pinned at 22.62°N, 120.31°E; Taichung (174 km); Tokyo (2,366 km).
Asia/Taipei resolves to stable UTC+08:00 offset across January and July. 3 retained city pages share this zone; 0 same-zone anchors are outside Taiwan.
KHH Kaohsiung International Airport (6 km) · no upcoming public-holiday signal in view · 6 country airport references · 0 holidays in the current country-year snapshot.
Kaohsiung 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.
Kaohsiung: Kaohsiung, officially Kaohsiung City, is a special municipality located in southern Taiwan. It ranges from the coastal urban center to the rural Yushan Range with an area of 2,952 km2 (1,140 mi2) making it the largest city in Taiwan by area. Kaohsiung City has a population of approximately 2.72 million people. It is Taiwan's third most populous city and the largest city in southern Taiwan.
Does not observe daylight saving time. The UTC offset (+08:00) is constant year-round.
Kaohsiung is listed in the dataset snapshot as 8 hours ahead of UTC (offset +08:00). 7 hours ahead of London, 1 hour behind Tokyo.
Kaohsiung sits at 22.62°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.
Kaohsiung sits at 22.62°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 2.7 million residents in the city proper.
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 31m)
Shortest day
Dec 15 (10h 45m)
Year-round average
12h 9m
Annual swing
2h 46m
See the full daylight curve for Kaohsiung at /sun/kaohsiung/.
Each row projects a hub's 09:00-17:00 local working day into Kaohsiung local time so a glance reveals when each market is reachable from this city.
| Hub | IANA zone | Window in Kaohsiung |
|---|---|---|
| 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 |
Kaohsiung is Taiwan's largest port city and one of its principal special municipalities, with a population of roughly 2.7 million in the southwest of the island. It observes National Standard Time (UTC+8) year-round, with no daylight saving. The Port of Kaohsiung is by far the largest in Taiwan and historically ranked among the busiest container ports in the world, anchoring the city's role as the country's heavy-industry and maritime hub, including shipbuilding, petrochemicals, and steel. In recent decades Kaohsiung has reinvented its harbour-front with cultural projects such as the Pier-2 Art Center and the Kaohsiung Music Center, broadening its economy beyond manufacturing.
Sources
Last verified 2026-05-20 (manual).
Reference fields include Kaohsiung'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 Kaohsiung (UTC+08:00, GMT+8).
Status
Nighttime
Week Number
Week 23
Day of Year
Day 153
Days Remaining
212
Sunrise and sunset
05:13 AM to 06:39 PM
Day length 13h 26m · Solar noon 11:56 AM
Tracked countdowns rendered for Kaohsiung local time, with sunrise/sunset and DST stats per page.
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Population
2.7M
Coordinates
22.62, 120.31
Timezone
Asia/Taipei
Indexed airports
6
Capital
Taipei
Languages
Chinese
Currency
TWD ($)
Country area
36,197 km²
Kaohsiung, Taiwan (population rank #4 in this dataset). Time zone: Asia/Taipei (GMT+8, UTC+08:00); population ~2.7M.
Coordinates: 22.62°N, 120.31°E. Northern Hemisphere tropics, ~2510 km from the equator.
Today the sun rises around 05:13 AM and sets around 06:39 PM in Kaohsiung — about 13h 26m of daylight. Taiwan stays on standard time here, so UTC+08:00 is stable through the year.
Taichung (174 km from Kaohsiung) gives this page its nearest mapped city context, with 6 curated airport pages indexed for Taiwan.
Kaohsiung is indexed as a Asia city in the TW country record, using Asia/Taipei as its canonical IANA timezone. The canonical route for this city is /time/taiwan/kaohsiung/.
Location context: 22.62°N, 120.31°E; population 2,737,660; nearest indexed city Taichung is about 174 km away; closest reference hub is Tokyo, about 2,366 km away.
Country planning context: capital Taipei; subregion Eastern Asia; languages Chinese; currency TWD ($); area 36,197 km²; 6 curated airport references; no upcoming holiday signal currently in view.
Does not observe daylight saving time. The UTC offset (+08:00) is constant year-round.
Kaohsiung is listed in the dataset snapshot as 8 hours ahead of UTC (offset +08:00). 7 hours ahead of London, 1 hour behind Tokyo.
Kaohsiung sits at 22.62°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 2.7 million residents in the city proper.
Related clock anchors for Kaohsiung: Taipei (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.
taiwan
Tuesday, June 2, 2026
Timezone
GMT+8
IANA Zone
Asia/Taipei
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 Kaohsiung.
City time, coordinate and population facts on this page are derived from the following authoritative datasets.
Distances from Kaohsiung: closest hubs Tokyo (~2,366 km), Singapore (~2,961 km), Dubai (~6,552 km); farthest indexed hub São Paulo (~18,676 km).
Kaohsiung sits inside Taiwan — the Eastern Asia subregion, capital Taipei, languages Chinese, currency TWD ($).
Closest indexed cities to Kaohsiung: Taichung (174 km), New Taipei City (296 km), Taipei (298 km), Kowloon (631 km).
Closest curated airport references from Kaohsiung: KHH Kaohsiung (Xiaogang) (6 km), MZG Huxi (127 km), RMQ Taichung (Qingshui) (186 km).
Kaohsiung International AirportKHH
Kaohsiung (Xiaogang) · 6 km from Kaohsiung
Approx. transfer or flight-planning window: 45m
Penghu Magong AirportMZG
Huxi · 127 km from Kaohsiung
Approx. transfer or flight-planning window: 55m
Taichung International Airport / Ching Chuang Kang Air BaseRMQ
Taichung (Qingshui) · 186 km from Kaohsiung
Approx. transfer or flight-planning window: 59m
Hualien Chiashan AirportHUN
Hualien City · 205 km from Kaohsiung
Approx. transfer or flight-planning window: 1h 1m
Taiwan Taoyuan International AirportTPE
Taoyuan · 289 km from Kaohsiung
Approx. transfer or flight-planning window: 1h 7m
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 |
Kaohsiung International AirportKHH
Kaohsiung (Xiaogang) · 6 km away
Penghu Magong AirportMZG
Huxi · 127 km away
Taichung International Airport / Ching Chuang Kang Air BaseRMQ
Taichung (Qingshui) · 186 km away
Hualien Chiashan AirportHUN
Hualien City · 205 km away
Taiwan Taoyuan International AirportTPE
Taoyuan · 289 km away
Taichung
Taiwan
Approx. 174 km away
New Taipei City
Taiwan
Approx. 296 km away
Taipei
Taiwan
Approx. 298 km away
Kowloon
Hong Kong SAR China
Approx. 631 km away
Hong Kong Island
Hong Kong SAR China
Approx. 631 km away
Hong Kong
Hong Kong SAR China
Approx. 632 km away
New Territories
Hong Kong SAR China
Approx. 637 km away
Shenzhen
China
Approx. 641 km away
Kaohsiung is in the Asia/Taipei timezone (GMT+8), with a UTC offset of +08:00.
Kaohsiung 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 Kaohsiung is UTC+08:00.
No. The business-hours blocks use a simple 09:00-17:00 local-time planning window for Kaohsiung, 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.
Kaohsiung sits at 22.62°N, 120.31°E in Taiwan, with about 2.7M residents (rank #4 by population in this dataset).
The closest reference hub to Kaohsiung is Tokyo, about 2,366 km away as the crow flies.
Taichung is the closest indexed city, roughly 174 km from Kaohsiung.
Kaohsiung International Airport (KHH) is the closest curated airport reference, about 6 km from Kaohsiung.
Kaohsiung uses New Taiwan dollar (TWD, symbol $) as the local currency of Taiwan.
The longest day of 2026 in Kaohsiung falls on Jun 14 with about 13h 31m of daylight. The shortest is Dec 15 with 10h 45m; the year-round average is 12h 9m.
In Kaohsiung 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.