Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Current time in Hong Kong
Time zone: HKT (UTC/GMT +08:00) — Asia/Hong_Kong
| Local Clock Offset: Today, 0 H |
| Time zone: (UTC/GMT +8 ) Hong Kong, Hong Kong |
Current Time in other Cities of Hong Kong
Hong Kong clocks, offsets and daylight saving
Hong Kong runs on HKT. That places it 8 hours ahead of UTC (UTC+08:00); in a calendar, server config or booking form, select Asia/Hong_Kong.
Clocks in Hong Kong stay put. With no summer-time switch, the UTC+08:00 offset is fixed and the differences shown below only shift when the other end changes.
Population: about 7,491,609 — 1st largest of the 22 Hong Kong cities indexed here.
Time difference between Hong Kong and other cities
How Hong Kong lines up against other major centres at this moment — the numbers move when either side changes its clocks.
| New York | UTC-04:00 | Hong Kong is 12 hours ahead |
| Los Angeles | UTC-07:00 | Hong Kong is 15 hours ahead |
| London | UTC+01:00 | Hong Kong is 7 hours ahead |
| Paris | UTC+02:00 | Hong Kong is 6 hours ahead |
| Dubai | UTC+04:00 | Hong Kong is 4 hours ahead |
| Mumbai | UTC+05:30 | Hong Kong is 2 hours 30 minutes ahead |
| Shanghai | UTC+08:00 | same time as Hong Kong |
| Tokyo | UTC+09:00 | Hong Kong is 1 hour behind |
| Sydney | UTC+10:00 | Hong Kong is 2 hours behind |
| Sao Paulo | UTC-03:00 | Hong Kong is 11 hours ahead |
Scheduling calls with Hong Kong
Overlap of a normal working day, shown in Hong Kong time — outside these windows one side is off the clock.
| Shanghai | 09:00–17:00 in Hong Kong | 8 hours overlap |
| Tokyo | 09:00–16:00 in Hong Kong | 7 hours overlap |
| Sydney | 09:00–15:00 in Hong Kong | 6 hours overlap |
| Mumbai | 11:30–17:00 in Hong Kong | 5.5 hours overlap |
No shared working window exists with New York, Los Angeles or Sao Paulo, so those calls have to sit outside somebody's normal hours.
Sharing Hong Kong's time zone
No difference at all from Hong Kong: the cities below share the Asia/Hong_Kong zone.
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Popular cities
| New York, United States |
| London, United Kingdom |
| Paris, France |
| Tokyo, Japan |
| Beijing, China |
| Sydney, Australia |
| Berlin, Germany |
| Moscow, Russia |
| Dubai, United Arab Emirates |
| Singapore, Singapore |
| Los Angeles, United States |
| Chicago, United States |
| Toronto, Canada |
| Mexico City, Mexico |
| São Paulo, Brazil |
| Mumbai, India |
| Hong Kong, Hong Kong |
| Seoul, South Korea |
| Istanbul, Turkey |
| Cairo, Egypt |
| Lagos, Nigeria |
| Buenos Aires, Argentina |
| Madrid, Spain |
| Rome, Italy |