| CITY | LOCAL TIME | Difference | Coming up |
|---|---|---|---|
| London United Kingdom | 01:00 | −7h | Becomes −8h on 25 Oct |
| Berlin Germany | 02:00 | −6h | Becomes −7h on 25 Oct |
| Dubai UAE | 04:00 | −4h | |
| Tokyo Japan | 09:00 | +1h | |
| Sydney Australia | 10:00 | +2h | Becomes +3h on 4 Oct |
| New York United States | 20:00Wed | −12h | Becomes −13h on 1 Nov |
| Los Angeles United States | 17:00Wed | −15h | Becomes −16h on 1 Nov |
Dalian, China runs on UTC+8. This time zone stays fixed year-round at UTC+8 — daylight saving time is not observed. The time difference between Dalian and New York is 12 hours. Standard working hours don't overlap at all with New York, so meetings need an early or late slot on one side. The time difference between Dalian and London is 7 hours. Standard 9-to-6 working hours overlap for about 2 hours a day with London. A good time to connect: 16:00–18:00 in Dalian lines up with 09:00–11:00 in London. The time difference between Dalian and Tokyo is 1 hour. Standard 9-to-6 working hours overlap for about 8 hours a day with Tokyo. A good time to connect: 09:00–17:00 in Dalian lines up with 10:00–18:00 in Tokyo. This timezone is also shared with cities such as Singapore, Kuala Lumpur, Manila. Keeping these offsets in mind makes it easier to schedule calls or travel to and from Dalian.
Dalian (China) is home to roughly 4.2M people. Today brings about 11.8 hours of daylight: sunrise at 05:48, sunset at 17:38. This time zone stays fixed year-round at UTC+8 — daylight saving time is not observed. It sits in the Northern Hemisphere, about 39° north of the equator. Traffic drives on the right.
Flag
China
Capital
Beijing
Continent
Asia
Time Zone
UTC+8 · Asia/Shanghai
Coordinates
38.91°N, 121.61°E
Currency
CNY (¥)
Calling Code
+86
Driving Side
Right
Hemisphere
Northern
Language
Mandarin
Measurement System
Metric
Did You Know?
Dalian was laid out by the Russians from 1898 with radial boulevards, then developed by the Japanese until 1945, then by China — which is why its street plan looks more European than most Chinese cities.
The clock: Dalian keeps UTC+8 on the Liaodong peninsula, and its beer festival each summer draws large crowds.
Dalian lies at 121.6°E. Its time zone, UTC+8, is built around the 120°E meridian. The 1.6° gap between them means the clock runs roughly 6 minutes behind the sun: solar noon arrives at about 11:54 rather than 12:00. The zone holds UTC+8 all year — there is no daylight saving here.
The longest day of 2026 is 22 June, with 14h 54m of daylight. The shortest is 22 December, with 9h 26m. The swing between them is 5h 28m. This is the latitude band where the difference between summer and winter evenings is most obvious.
The earliest sunrise and the latest sunset do not land on the longest day. In Dalian the sun comes up earliest on 15 June at 04:27, while the latest sunset waits until 29 June at 19:23. The equation of time is what separates them: the Earth's elliptical orbit and axial tilt move solar noon back and forth by several minutes over the year.
The sky stays usably light for a while after the sun goes down. In Dalian that civil twilight runs about 27 minutes at the equinox, stretching to 32 minutes at the solstice.
Every figure in this section is computed from the city's own latitude, longitude and IANA time zone using NOAA solar algorithms (Spencer, 1971), accurate to about ±2 arcminutes below 65° latitude.
The official timezone for Dalian, China is Asia/Shanghai with a current UTC offset of UTC+8.
Dalian has an estimated population of 4.2M and is located at coordinates 38.91°N, 121.61°E.
Dalian gets 14h 54m of daylight on its longest day and 9h 26m on its shortest, averaging 12h 12m a day across the year.
Solar noon in Dalian falls at about 11:54 on UTC+8 standard time, because the city sits 1.6° from the meridian its zone is built on.
A City Planned by Three Empires: Dalian was laid out by the Russians from 1898 with radial boulevards, then developed by the Japanese until 1945, then by China — which is why its street plan looks more European than most Chinese cities.