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Time Difference

Time in all of China is officially set to Beijing time, which is eight hours ahead of Greenwich Mean Time (GMT+8). However, since China takes up a large piece of longitude, people in the western regions of Xinjiang and Tibet adjust their schedules a couple hours earlier according to the sun.

Unlike western countries, China does not follow the daylight saving time.

The following are some examples of time differences with other major cities in the world. Noon in Beijing means it's:

City	Time	City	Time	City	Time
Baghdad	06:00	Helsinki	06:00	Pyongyang	13:00
Bangkok	11:00	Ho Chi Minh City	11:00	Rangoon	10:00
Berlin	05:30	Honolulu	18:00	Rio de Janeiro	01:00
Berne	05:00	Irkutsk	12:00	Rome	05:30
Bombay	09:30	Jakarta	11:30	Rwanda	05:00
Brussels	04:00	Karachi	09:00	San Francisco	20:00
Bucharest	06:00	Khartoum	06:00	Santiago	24:00
Budapest	05:00	Kuala Lumpur	11:30	Seoul	13:00
Buenos Aires	01:00	Leningrad	07:00	Singapore	11:30
Cairo	06:00	Lisbon	04:00	Sofia	06:00
Calcutta	09:00	London	04:00	Stockholm	05:00
Cape Town	06:00	Manila	12:00	Surabaya	11:30
Casablanca	04:00	Melbourne	14:00	Sydney	14:00
Colombo	09:30	Mexico City	21:00	Teheran	06:00
Conakry	04:00	Montreal	23:00	Tirana	05:00
Copenhagen	05:00	Moscow	07:00	Tokyo	13:00
Damascus	06:00	New Delhi	09:30	Tunisia	05:00
Geneva	05:00	New York	23:00	Vancouver	20:00
Guatemala City	22:00	Osaka	13:00	Vienna	05:00
Haiphong	11:00	Panama City	23:00	Warsaw	05:00
Hanoi	11:00	Paris	04:00	Washington	23:00
Havana	23:00	Prague	05:00	Wellington	16:00