Time zone
- China Standard Time (CST), UTC +8
- No daylight saving time, same UTC offset all year
- Shanghai is 12 hours ahead of United States.
The IANA time zone identifier for Shanghai is Asia/Shanghai.
Sunrise, sunset, day length and solar time for Shanghai
- Sunrise: 05:10AM
- Sunset: 06:33PM
- Day length: 13h 23m
- Solar noon: 11:51AM
- The current local time in Shanghai is 9 minutes behind apparent solar time.