All over China, the time is GMT+8, even though this vast country actually spans five different time zones (Zhongyuan, Longshu, Tibet, Kunlun and Changbai).
Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan also conform to what is Beijing Time, which is worked out in the National Time Service Centre in Pucheng, Shaanxi, which lies at almost precisely the centre of China. China’s time stays the same throughout the year; it does not adopt Summer (or Daylight Saving) Time. You can find out more from the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich, London, which is the site of the Meridian Line.
The time in China is 13 hours ahead of New York, 12 hours ahead of Toronto, and 2 hours behind Melbourne. When Beijing is 12:00 at noon, the standard times in other main cities are as follows:
| City | Time | City | Time | City | Time |
| Baghdad | 06:00 | Helsinki | 06:00 | Pyongyang | 13:00 |
| Bangkok | 11:00 | Ho Chi Minh City | 11:00 | Rangoon | 10:00 |
| Berlin | 05:30 | Honolulu | 18:00 | Rio de Janeiro | 01:00 |
| Berne | 05:00 | Irkutsk | 12:00 | Rome | 05:30 |
| Bombay | 09:30 | Jakarta | 11:30 | Rwanda | 05:00 |
| Brussels | 04:00 | Karachi | 09:00 | San Francisco | 20:00 |
| Bucharest | 06:00 | Khartoum | 06:00 | Santiago | 24:00 |
| Budapest | 05:00 | Kuala Lumpur | 11:30 | Seoul | 13:00 |
| Buenos Aires | 01:00 | Leningrad | 07:00 | Singapore | 11:30 |
| Cairo | 06:00 | Lisbon | 04:00 | Sofia | 06:00 |
| Calcutta | 09:00 | London | 04:00 | Stockholm | 05:00 |
| Cape Town | 06:00 | Manila | 12:00 | Surabaya | 11:30 |
| Casablanca | 04:00 | Melbourne | 14:00 | Sydney | 14:00 |
| Colombo | 09:30 | Mexico City | 21:00 | Teheran | 06:00 |
| Conakry | 04:00 | Montreal | 23:00 | Tirana | 05:00 |
| Copenhagen | 05:00 | Moscow | 07:00 | Tokyo | 13:00 |
| Damascus | 06:00 | New Delhi | 09:30 | Tunisia | 05:00 |
| Geneva | 05:00 | New York |
23:00 | Vancouver | 20:00 |
| Guatemala City | 22:00 | Osaka | 13:00 | Vienna | 05:00 |
| Haiphong | 11:00 | Panama City | 23:00 | Warsaw | 05:00 |
| Hanoi | 11:00 | Paris | 04:00 | Washington | 23:00 |
| Havana | 23:00 | Prague | 05:00 | Wellington | 16:00 |
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