Shanghai — Asia/Shanghai

The current local time in the Asia/Shanghai IANA time zone is shown below. The zone is currently at UTC +08:00 · GMT+8 and does not observe daylight saving time.

Asia/Shanghai

16:04:59

Saturday, 9 May 2026 GMT+8

Zone information

IANA designation

Asia/Shanghai

Region: Asia

Reference pages: CST

Offset & DST

Current UTC offset: +08:00

Daylight saving: Not observed

Countries using Asia/Shanghai

🇨🇳 China Country time page

Cities in this zone

Beijing 21,540,000 residents Shanghai 24,870,000 residents

Other Asia zones

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Aden Asia/Aden Almaty Asia/Almaty Amman Asia/Amman Anadyr Asia/Anadyr Aqtau Asia/Aqtau Aqtobe Asia/Aqtobe Ashgabat Asia/Ashgabat Atyrau Asia/Atyrau Baghdad Asia/Baghdad Bahrain Asia/Bahrain Baku Asia/Baku Bangkok Asia/Bangkok Barnaul Asia/Barnaul Beirut Asia/Beirut Bishkek Asia/Bishkek Brunei Asia/Brunei Calcutta Asia/Calcutta Chita Asia/Chita

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