Current time in Beijing, China
4:43:27 PM
Monday, October 26, 2026
Beijing is on China Standard Time, UTC+8. It doesn't change its clocks: the time zone database has no changes scheduled for the next 12 months.
About 19 million people live in Beijing, the capital of China. Scheduled flights use Beijing Capital International Airport (PEK, 25 km away) and Beijing Daxing International Airport (PKX, 45 km away).
- Time zone
- Asia/Shanghai
- UTC offset now
- UTC+8
- Daylight saving time
- Not observed
- Sunrise today
- 6:35 AM
- Sunset today
- 5:21 PM
- Daylight
- 10 h 46 min
- Population
- 18,960,744
- Currency
- Yuan Renminbi (CNY)
- Dialing code
- +86
- Languages (country)
- Chinese, Cantonese
- Airports
- PEK 25 km · PKX 45 km
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