| 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 |
Hohhot, 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 Hohhot 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 Hohhot 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 Hohhot lines up with 09:00–11:00 in London. The time difference between Hohhot 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 Hohhot 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 Hohhot.
Hohhot (China) is home to roughly 2.5M people. Today brings about 11.8 hours of daylight: sunrise at 06:28, sunset at 18:17. This time zone stays fixed year-round at UTC+8 — daylight saving time is not observed. It sits in the Northern Hemisphere, about 41° north of the equator. Traffic drives on the right.
Flag
China
Capital
Beijing
Continent
Asia
Time Zone
UTC+8 · Asia/Shanghai
Coordinates
40.84°N, 111.75°E
Currency
CNY (¥)
Calling Code
+86
Driving Side
Right
Hemisphere
Northern
Language
Mandarin
Measurement System
Metric
Did You Know?
Naadam, held on the grasslands around Hohhot each summer, centres on the three manly games — wrestling, horse racing and archery — a competition format documented since the time of Genghis Khan.
The clock: Hohhot keeps UTC+8, the same time as Ulaanbaatar. Inner Mongolia and Mongolia share a culture and a border, and most of Mongolia shares Hohhot's clock too; only its western provinces keep UTC+7.
Hohhot lies at 111.8°E. Its time zone, UTC+8, is built around the 120°E meridian. The 8.3° gap between them means the clock runs roughly 33 minutes ahead of the sun: solar noon arrives at about 12:33 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 15h 7m of daylight. The shortest is 22 December, with 9h 14m. The swing between them is 5h 52m. 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 Hohhot the sun comes up earliest on 15 June at 05:00, while the latest sunset waits until 29 June at 20:09. 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 Hohhot that civil twilight runs about 27 minutes at the equinox, stretching to 34 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 Hohhot, China is Asia/Shanghai with a current UTC offset of UTC+8.
Hohhot has an estimated population of 2.5M and is located at coordinates 40.84°N, 111.75°E.
Hohhot gets 15h 7m of daylight on its longest day and 9h 14m on its shortest, averaging 12h 12m a day across the year.
Solar noon in Hohhot falls at about 12:33 on UTC+8 standard time, because the city sits 8.3° from the meridian its zone is built on.
Wrestling, Racing and Archery: Naadam, held on the grasslands around Hohhot each summer, centres on the three manly games — wrestling, horse racing and archery — a competition format documented since the time of Genghis Khan.