Shanghai, China
Current time in China
Time zone: CST (UTC/GMT +08:00) — Asia/Shanghai
| Shanghai, often abbreviated as Hu or Shen, is the second of the most populous city in China and the most populous city proper in the world. It is one of the four direct-controlled municipalities of China, with a population of more than 24 million as of 2014. It is a global financial centre, and a transport hub with the world's busiest container port. Located in the Yangtze River Delta in East China, Shanghai sits on the south edge of the mouth of the Yangtze in the middle portion of the Chinese coast. The municipality borders the provinces of Jiangsu and Zhejiang to the north, south and west, and is bounded to the east by the East China Sea. |
| From Wikipedia |
Shanghai clocks, offsets and daylight saving
The local standard in Shanghai is CST — UTC+08:00, or 8 hours ahead of UTC. Systems that store time zones by name use Asia/Shanghai for this part of the world.
Clocks in Shanghai 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.
Bear in mind China spans 2 zones across the 452 cities we cover — checking a second city in the same country is often necessary.
Time difference between Shanghai and other cities
How Shanghai lines up against other major centres at this moment — the numbers move when either side changes its clocks.
| New York | UTC-04:00 | Shanghai is 12 hours ahead |
| Los Angeles | UTC-07:00 | Shanghai is 15 hours ahead |
| London | UTC+01:00 | Shanghai is 7 hours ahead |
| Paris | UTC+02:00 | Shanghai is 6 hours ahead |
| Dubai | UTC+04:00 | Shanghai is 4 hours ahead |
| Mumbai | UTC+05:30 | Shanghai is 2 hours 30 minutes ahead |
| Tokyo | UTC+09:00 | Shanghai is 1 hour behind |
| Sydney | UTC+10:00 | Shanghai is 2 hours behind |
| Sao Paulo | UTC-03:00 | Shanghai is 11 hours ahead |
Best time to call Shanghai
Where the two working days actually meet, expressed in Shanghai local time.
| Tokyo | 09:00–16:00 in Shanghai | 7 hours overlap |
| Sydney | 09:00–15:00 in Shanghai | 6 hours overlap |
| Mumbai | 11:30–17:00 in Shanghai | 5.5 hours overlap |
| Dubai | 13:00–17:00 in Shanghai | 4 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.
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 |