| 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 |
Xiamen, 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 Xiamen 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 Xiamen 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 Xiamen lines up with 09:00–11:00 in London. The time difference between Xiamen 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 Xiamen 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 Xiamen.
Xiamen (China) is home to roughly 3.5M people. Today brings about 11.9 hours of daylight: sunrise at 05:59, sunset at 17:56. This time zone stays fixed year-round at UTC+8 — daylight saving time is not observed. It sits in the Northern Hemisphere, about 24° north of the equator. Traffic drives on the right.
Flag
China
Capital
Beijing
Continent
Asia
Time Zone
UTC+8 · Asia/Shanghai
Coordinates
24.48°N, 118.09°E
Currency
CNY (¥)
Calling Code
+86
Driving Side
Right
Hemisphere
Northern
Language
Mandarin
Measurement System
Metric
Did You Know?
Gulangyu, off Xiamen, has been free of motor vehicles for decades — no cars, no bicycles, everything moved by hand. It has an unusually high piano ownership rate, a legacy of missionary schools, and a museum holding around a hundred of them.
The clock: Xiamen keeps UTC+8. Kinmen, administered by Taiwan, sits about 10 km offshore.
Xiamen lies at 118.1°E. Its time zone, UTC+8, is built around the 120°E meridian. The 1.9° gap between them means the clock runs roughly 8 minutes ahead of the sun: solar noon arrives at about 12:08 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 13h 39m of daylight. The shortest is 22 December, with 10h 37m. The swing between them is 3h 2m. At this latitude the seasons are visible in the clock, but never dramatic.
The earliest sunrise and the latest sunset do not land on the longest day. In Xiamen the sun comes up earliest on 9 June at 05:18, while the latest sunset waits until 4 July at 19:00. 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 Xiamen that civil twilight runs about 23 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 Xiamen, China is Asia/Shanghai with a current UTC offset of UTC+8.
Xiamen has an estimated population of 3.5M and is located at coordinates 24.48°N, 118.09°E.
Xiamen gets 13h 39m of daylight on its longest day and 10h 37m on its shortest, averaging 12h 9m a day across the year.
Solar noon in Xiamen falls at about 12:08 on UTC+8 standard time, because the city sits 1.9° from the meridian its zone is built on.
An Island With No Cars: Gulangyu, off Xiamen, has been free of motor vehicles for decades — no cars, no bicycles, everything moved by hand.