| 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 |
Lanzhou, 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 Lanzhou 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 Lanzhou 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 Lanzhou lines up with 09:00–11:00 in London. The time difference between Lanzhou 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 Lanzhou 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 Lanzhou.
Lanzhou (China) is home to roughly 3.0M people. Today brings about 11.9 hours of daylight: sunrise at 06:58, sunset at 18:50. This time zone stays fixed year-round at UTC+8 — daylight saving time is not observed. It sits in the Northern Hemisphere, about 36° north of the equator. Traffic drives on the right.
Flag
China
Capital
Beijing
Continent
Asia
Time Zone
UTC+8 · Asia/Shanghai
Coordinates
36.06°N, 103.83°E
Currency
CNY (¥)
Calling Code
+86
Driving Side
Right
Hemisphere
Northern
Language
Mandarin
Measurement System
Metric
Did You Know?
Lanzhou is squeezed into a narrow valley along the Yellow River, which makes it more than 30 km long and in places only a few kilometres wide. The geography traps air, and the city spent years among the most polluted in the world before a major clean-up.
The clock: Lanzhou keeps UTC+8 at 103° east — far enough west that solar noon arrives around 13:05.
Lanzhou lies at 103.8°E. Its time zone, UTC+8, is built around the 120°E meridian. The 16.2° gap between them means the clock runs roughly 65 minutes ahead of the sun: solar noon arrives at about 13:05 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 37m of daylight. The shortest is 22 December, with 9h 42m. The swing between them is 4h 55m. 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 Lanzhou the sun comes up earliest on 14 June at 05:47, while the latest sunset waits until 30 June at 20:26. 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 Lanzhou that civil twilight runs about 26 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 Lanzhou, China is Asia/Shanghai with a current UTC offset of UTC+8.
Lanzhou has an estimated population of 3.0M and is located at coordinates 36.06°N, 103.83°E.
Lanzhou gets 14h 37m of daylight on its longest day and 9h 42m on its shortest, averaging 12h 11m a day across the year.
Solar noon in Lanzhou falls at about 13:05 on UTC+8 standard time, because the city sits 16.2° from the meridian its zone is built on.
A City Squeezed Into a River Valley: Lanzhou is squeezed into a narrow valley along the Yellow River, which makes it more than 30 km long and in places only a few kilometres wide.