What time is it in Hong Kong?

Hong Kong stays on UTC+8:00 all year. Its offset from UTC never moves, so its relationship to places that do change shifts twice a year instead — which is usually why someone checks. Right now it is 8 hours ahead UTC, and 12 hours ahead New York.

Hong Kong is 12 hours ahead New York and 15 hours ahead Los Angeles. 9am in New York is 9:00 pm in Hong Kong.

To convert a specific time rather than read the current one, the converter shows both directions with the next clock change for each.

The day is 12 hours 4 minutes long in Hong Kong, and losing 1 minute a day. The sun peaks at 12:15 pm, 15 minutes after noon on the clock. A UTC offset is a promise that the sun is overhead at midday on one meridian, and Hong Kong sits 23 minutes of solar time west of UTC+8:00’s. The rest is the equation of time, which swings about a quarter of an hour either way across the year.

Hong Kong lies inside the tropics, so the sun passes directly overhead at noon twice a year — around June 3 and July 10 in 2026, when a vertical object casts almost no shadow. Nowhere outside the tropics ever sees that. The longest day is 13 hours 30 minutes and the shortest 10 hours 46 minutes, 164 minutes apart.

Hong Kong has kept UTC+8:00 since Sunday, October 21, 1979, when it moved from UTC+9:00. Before that its clocks read 1 hour ahead what they read now.

On UTC+8:00 right now, the same clock as Hong Kong: