| 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 |
Kaohsiung, Taiwan runs on UTC+8. This time zone stays fixed year-round at UTC+8 — daylight saving time is not observed. The time difference between Kaohsiung 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 Kaohsiung 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 Kaohsiung lines up with 09:00–11:00 in London. The time difference between Kaohsiung 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 Kaohsiung 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 Kaohsiung.
Kaohsiung (Taiwan) is home to roughly 2.7M people. Today brings about 12.0 hours of daylight: sunrise at 05:49, sunset at 17:47. This time zone stays fixed year-round at UTC+8 — daylight saving time is not observed. It sits in the Northern Hemisphere, about 23° north of the equator. Traffic drives on the right.
Flag
Taiwan
Capital
Taipei
Continent
Asia
Time Zone
UTC+8 · Asia/Taipei
Coordinates
22.63°N, 120.30°E
Currency
TWD ($)
Calling Code
+886
Driving Side
Right
Hemisphere
Northern
Language
Mandarin
Measurement System
Metric
Did You Know?
The Dome of Light at Formosa Boulevard station spans about 30 metres and is made from 4,500 glass panels — the largest single work of glass art in the world, installed in 2008.
The clock: Kaohsiung keeps UTC+8. Its port was for decades among the busiest container terminals in the world, and remains Taiwan's largest.
Kaohsiung lies at 120.3°E. Its time zone, UTC+8, is built around the 120°E meridian. The two very nearly coincide: solar noon — the moment the sun is highest — falls at about 11:59, which is as close to true solar time as a zone this wide can get. The zone holds UTC+8 all year — there is no daylight saving here.
The longest day of 2026 is 22 June, with 13h 31m of daylight. The shortest is 22 December, with 10h 45m. The swing between them is 2h 47m. Inside the tropics the day length stays within a narrow band all year.
The earliest sunrise and the latest sunset do not land on the longest day. In Kaohsiung the sun comes up earliest on 8 June at 05:13, while the latest sunset waits until 5 July at 18:48. 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 Kaohsiung that civil twilight runs about 22 minutes at the equinox.
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 Kaohsiung, Taiwan is Asia/Taipei with a current UTC offset of UTC+8.
Kaohsiung has an estimated population of 2.7M and is located at coordinates 22.63°N, 120.30°E.
Kaohsiung gets 13h 31m of daylight on its longest day and 10h 45m on its shortest, averaging 12h 9m a day across the year.
Solar noon in Kaohsiung falls at about 11:59 on UTC+8 standard time, because the city sits 0.3° from the meridian its zone is built on.
A Metro Station Made of Glass: The Dome of Light at Formosa Boulevard station spans about 30 metres and is made from 4,500 glass panels — the largest single work of glass art in the world, installed in 2008.