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Hotel Time Zone — H

Military letter H (Hotel) maps to the UTC+8 offset from Coordinated Universal Time. Covers China, Singapore, the Philippines, and Western Australia.

Hotel (H) — UTC+8

23:40:52

Thursday, 22 October 2026 GMT+8

About Hotel

UTC offset

UTC+8

Letter H = Hotel in the NATO phonetic alphabet.

Where H is used

Covers China, Singapore, the Philippines, and Western Australia.

Places on UTC+8 (H time) in 2026

14 zones in the tz database are at UTC+8 for at least part of 2026. Zones listed under January or July only are on this offset for part of the year, because they change their clocks for daylight saving time. Civil abbreviations at this offset: CST, SGT.

All year (14 zones)

Antarctica, Australia, Brunei, China, Hong Kong SAR China, Indonesia, Macao SAR China, Malaysia, Mongolia, Philippines, Russia, Singapore, Taiwan

Antarctica/Casey · Asia/Brunei · Asia/Hong Kong · Asia/Irkutsk · Asia/Kuala Lumpur · Asia/Kuching · Asia/Macau · Asia/Makassar · Asia/Manila · Asia/Shanghai · Asia/Singapore · Asia/Taipei · Asia/Ulaanbaatar · Australia/Perth

Converting H time

In a military date-time group the zone letter follows the time: 151430H JAN 26 means 14:30 Hotel time on 15 January 2026, which is 150630Z JAN 26 in Zulu (UTC).

ZoneOffsetWhen it's 12:00 H
U Uniform UTC-8 20:00 (−1 day)
S Sierra UTC-6 22:00 (−1 day)
R Romeo UTC-5 23:00 (−1 day)
Z Zulu UTC 04:00
A Alpha UTC+1 05:00
B Bravo UTC+2 06:00
C Charlie UTC+3 07:00
E Echo UTC+5 09:00
I India UTC+9 13:00
K Kilo UTC+10 14:00

Other military letters