Time in Hong Kong
Hong Kong · Asia/Hong Kong · latitude 22.32°
Reading your clock…
Hong Kong never changes its clocks
Hong Kong stays on UTC+08:00 all year round. This is worth being careful about rather than relaxed about: the gap between Hong Kong and a city that does observe daylight saving still moves twice a year, because the other end moved. A recurring call can drift by an hour without anything changing here at all.
Time difference from Hong Kong
Where a range is shown, the gap genuinely changes during the year. That is not rounding or hedging — it is two governments moving their clocks on different weekends.
| City | Difference now | Across the year |
|---|---|---|
| London | 7 hours behind | −8h / −7h |
| New York | 12 hours behind | −13h / −12h |
| Los Angeles | 15 hours behind | −16h / −15h |
| Chicago | 13 hours behind | −14h / −13h |
| Toronto | 12 hours behind | −13h / −12h |
| Paris | 6 hours behind | −7h / −6h |
| Berlin | 6 hours behind | −7h / −6h |
| Dubai | 4 hours behind | constant |
| Mumbai | 2 hours 30 minutes behind | constant |
| Singapore | the same time | constant |
| Tokyo | 1 hour ahead | constant |
| Sydney | 2 hours ahead | +2h / +3h |
| Auckland | 4 hours ahead | +4h / +5h |
| São Paulo | 11 hours behind | constant |
| UTC | 8 hours behind | constant |
Daylight in Hong Kong through the year
From about 10.8 hours in December to 13.5 hours in June. This is the part a plain clock leaves out: 17:00 is a bright evening in one month and long dark in another.
| Month | Sunrise | Sunset | Daylight |
|---|---|---|---|
| January | 06:42 | 17:41 | 10h 59m |
| February | 06:29 | 18:00 | 11h 31m |
| March | 06:05 | 18:12 | 12h 7m |
| April | 05:37 | 18:22 | 12h 45m |
| May | 05:19 | 18:35 | 13h 16m |
| June | 05:17 | 18:47 | 13h 30m |
| July | 05:27 | 18:46 | 13h 19m |
| August | 05:40 | 18:28 | 12h 48m |
| September | 05:48 | 17:59 | 12h 11m |
| October | 05:58 | 17:31 | 11h 33m |
| November | 06:17 | 17:17 | 11h 0m |
| December | 06:35 | 17:21 | 10h 46m |
Daylight length is accurate. The clock times of sunrise and sunset assume each city sits at the centre of its time zone, which can put them up to about an hour and a quarter out for places near a zone's edge — Madrid being the standard example. Day length is unaffected.
Questions
About time in Hong Kong
What time zone is Hong Kong in?
Hong Kong uses the IANA time zone Asia/Hong_Kong, a fixed UTC+08:00 with no daylight saving.
Does Hong Kong observe daylight saving time?
No. Hong Kong stays on UTC+08:00 all year. That does not mean the gap between Hong Kong and other cities is fixed, though: when a city that does observe daylight saving changes its clocks, the difference between you and them moves even though nothing changed here.
Why does the time difference to Hong Kong keep changing?
Because the two places do not change their clocks on the same weekend, and in opposite hemispheres they change in opposite directions. London is a clear example: it sits 8 hours behind, then 7 hours behind across the year rather than one fixed distance.
How much daylight does Hong Kong get?
Around 13.5 hours at the longest, in June, and about 10.8 hours at the shortest, in December. The table on this page lists sunrise and sunset through the year. Times are calculated from Hong Kong's latitude of 22.32° and are approximate to within about an hour for cities that sit well away from the centre of their time zone.