EZYCLOCK

Time in Hong Kong

The current local time in Hong Kong, Hong Kong — updating live, with the difference from your own clock.

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Hong Kong time explained

Hong Kong keeps a fixed eight-hour offset with no daylight saving; it last experimented with summer time in 1979. Sharing a clock with mainland China, Singapore and Taiwan makes the region unusually easy to schedule across.

Hong Kong does not observe daylight saving. Its offset from UTC is the same all year round, which makes scheduling with it noticeably simpler.

Reaching Hong Kong

Hong Kong shares its clock with Singapore, Taipei and the whole of mainland China, so scheduling across east Asia needs no arithmetic at all. Europe opens in the Hong Kong late afternoon.

How this page works

The time above is calculated on your own device from the IANA time zone database that ships with your browser, using the zone Asia/Hong_Kong. Nothing is fetched from a server, and the offset shown is whatever is currently in force rather than a number typed into the page — so when a country changes its rules, this page changes with it.

The difference from your own clock is worked out the same way, comparing Hong Kong's current offset against your device's. If your computer's clock is wrong, so is that comparison.

Frequently asked questions

Is Hong Kong the same time as Beijing?

Yes, both are eight hours ahead of UTC, and neither observes daylight saving, so they are never out of step.

Did Hong Kong ever use daylight saving?

Yes, on and off through the twentieth century, most recently in 1979. It has not been used since.

Does Hong Kong change its clocks?

No. Hong Kong keeps one offset all year, so the difference to anywhere that does change its clocks will shift by an hour twice a year — from their end, not this one.