Time in Shenzhen, China

Time zone: CST (UTC/GMT +08:00) — Asia/Shanghai

Shenzhen runs on CST. That places it 8 hours ahead of UTC (UTC+08:00); in a calendar, server config or booking form, select Asia/Shanghai.

There is no daylight saving in Shenzhen. UTC+08:00 applies all year, so the offset never moves on this side — only the other party's clock changes.

Shenzhen is one of 452 China cities here, spread over 2 time zones; do not assume the rest of the country reads the same clock.

Read this as: relative to each city below, Shenzhen is the stated amount ahead or behind, right now.

Where the two working days actually meet, expressed in Shenzhen local time.

No shared working window exists with New York, Los Angeles or Sao Paulo, so those calls have to sit outside somebody's normal hours.

These China cities also use Asia/Shanghai, so their clocks read identically to Shenzhen at every moment of the year.

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