| 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 |
Kashgar, 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 Kashgar 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 Kashgar 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 Kashgar lines up with 09:00–11:00 in London. The time difference between Kashgar 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 Kashgar 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 Kashgar.
Kashgar (China) is home to roughly 710K people. Today brings about 11.8 hours of daylight: sunrise at 08:51, sunset at 20:40. 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
39.47°N, 75.99°E
Currency
CNY (¥)
Calling Code
+86
Driving Side
Right
Hemisphere
Northern
Language
Mandarin
Measurement System
Metric
Did You Know?
Kashgar sits at 76° east, roughly 3,400 km from Beijing in a straight line and closer to Tehran than to Shanghai. It was the point where the northern and southern Silk Road routes rejoined after skirting the Taklamakan desert.
The clock: the whole country keeps UTC+8, so solar noon in Kashgar arrives around 15:00 and many residents run their lives on an informal local time two hours behind the official one.
Kashgar lies at 76.0°E. Its time zone, UTC+8, is built around the 120°E meridian. The 44.0° gap between them means the clock runs roughly 176 minutes ahead of the sun: solar noon arrives at about 14:56 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 58m of daylight. The shortest is 22 December, with 9h 23m. The swing between them is 5h 35m. 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 Kashgar the sun comes up earliest on 15 June at 07:28, while the latest sunset waits until 29 June at 22:27. 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 Kashgar that civil twilight runs about 27 minutes at the equinox, stretching to 33 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 Kashgar, China is Asia/Shanghai with a current UTC offset of UTC+8.
Kashgar has an estimated population of 710K and is located at coordinates 39.47°N, 75.99°E.
Kashgar gets 14h 58m of daylight on its longest day and 9h 23m on its shortest, averaging 12h 12m a day across the year.
Solar noon in Kashgar falls at about 14:56 on UTC+8 standard time, because the city sits 44.0° from the meridian its zone is built on.
Closer to Baghdad Than to Beijing: Kashgar sits at 76° east, roughly 3,400 km from Beijing in a straight line and closer to Tehran than to Shanghai.