Kaohsiung, Taiwan
Current time in Taiwan
Time zone: CST (UTC/GMT +08:00) — Asia/Taipei
| Local Clock Offset: Today, 0 H |
| Time zone: (UTC/GMT +8 ) Kaohsiung, Taiwan |
Time zone in Kaohsiung
The local standard in Kaohsiung is CST — UTC+08:00, or 8 hours ahead of UTC. Systems that store time zones by name use Asia/Taipei for this part of the world.
Daylight saving is not observed here, so UTC+08:00 is year-round. Any seasonal drift you notice against another city comes from that city, not from Kaohsiung.
Population: about 1,519,711 — 1st largest of the 17 Taiwan cities indexed here.
Time gaps from Kaohsiung right now
Current gap between Kaohsiung and cities people most often need to coordinate with. These figures already account for daylight saving where it applies.
| New York | UTC-04:00 | Kaohsiung is 12 hours ahead |
| Los Angeles | UTC-07:00 | Kaohsiung is 15 hours ahead |
| London | UTC+01:00 | Kaohsiung is 7 hours ahead |
| Paris | UTC+02:00 | Kaohsiung is 6 hours ahead |
| Dubai | UTC+04:00 | Kaohsiung is 4 hours ahead |
| Mumbai | UTC+05:30 | Kaohsiung is 2 hours 30 minutes ahead |
| Shanghai | UTC+08:00 | same time as Kaohsiung |
| Tokyo | UTC+09:00 | Kaohsiung is 1 hour behind |
| Sydney | UTC+10:00 | Kaohsiung is 2 hours behind |
| Sao Paulo | UTC-03:00 | Kaohsiung is 11 hours ahead |
Working hours that match Kaohsiung
Where the two working days actually meet, expressed in Kaohsiung local time.
| Shanghai | 09:00–17:00 in Kaohsiung | 8 hours overlap |
| Tokyo | 09:00–16:00 in Kaohsiung | 7 hours overlap |
| Sydney | 09:00–15:00 in Kaohsiung | 6 hours overlap |
| Mumbai | 11:30–17:00 in Kaohsiung | 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.
Cities on the same clock as Kaohsiung
These Taiwan cities also use Asia/Taipei, so their clocks read identically to Kaohsiung at every moment of the year.
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