Asia/Shanghai
Asia/Shanghai is the IANA time zone for Beijing Time in China.
UTC+08:00
Offsets and daylight saving time
- Standard offset
- UTC+08:00
- Rule
- No daylight saving time: UTC+8 all year.
No clock changes are scheduled in the next three years.
Names
- Generic name
- China Standard Time
- Abbreviation
- CST
- Long name
- China Standard Time
- Aliases
- Asia/Chongqing, Asia/Chungking, Asia/Harbin and PRC (old ids that resolve to Asia/Shanghai)
Use it in code
// JavaScript
new Intl.DateTimeFormat('en-US', { timeZone: 'Asia/Shanghai' })
# Python
from zoneinfo import ZoneInfo
ZoneInfo('Asia/Shanghai')
-- PostgreSQL
SELECT now() AT TIME ZONE 'Asia/Shanghai';Cities in Asia/Shanghai
- Shanghai
- Beijing
- Shenzhen
- Guangzhou
- Chengdu
- Tianjin
- Wuhan
- Dongguan
- Xi’an
- Nanjing
- Hangzhou
- Foshan
- Chongqing
- Qingdao
- Shenyang
- Suzhou
- Harbin
Also in this zone: Pudong.
Offset history since 1970
- 1970–1985: UTC+8
- 1986–1991: UTC+8 and UTC+9 each year
- 1992–2026: UTC+8