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 of UTC, and 13 hours ahead of New York.

Hong Kong is 13 hours ahead of New York and 16 hours ahead of Los Angeles. 9am in New York is 10:00 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 11 hours 7 minutes long in Hong Kong, and losing 1 minute a day. The sun peaks within a few minutes of twelve o’clock, so Hong Kong’s offset fits its longitude about as closely as a whole-hour offset can.

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 of what they read now.

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