China Standard Time is UTC+08:00 and is used nationwide, including Beijing and Shanghai.
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China uses one civil time despite a wide longitude range, so solar noon in the far west occurs much later than in the east. This page is separate from North American Central Standard Time, which also uses the abbreviation CST. The URL /time/cst-china keeps the two meanings from colliding.
The offset shown above is computed from Asia/Shanghai at page render time using Intl.DateTimeFormat. It can change when daylight saving starts or ends.
China does not currently observe daylight saving time.
China Standard Time (CST) uses the IANA identifier Asia/Shanghai. China Standard Time is UTC+08:00 and is used nationwide, including Beijing and Shanghai.
Right now China Standard Time is UTC+08:00. The live abbreviation reported by the timezone database is GMT+8.
China does not currently observe daylight saving time.
Use the converter with Asia/Shanghai as the source zone, or open the Time Zone Converter and pick a city that uses CST. Offsets update automatically when daylight saving begins or ends.