Current time in Hangzhou, China
The current local time in Hangzhou is shown below. Hangzhou observes CST.
What's the daylight saving status?
Hangzhou does not observe daylight saving time. The local offset is fixed year-round.
When are sunrise & sunset today?
What are the timezone facts?
- Timezone
- Asia/Shanghai
- Standard abbreviation
- CST
- Observes daylight saving
- No
- Country
- 🇨🇳 China
- Business hours
- 09:00 – 17:00 local
What's the timezone history of Hangzhou?
Near 120 degrees east, Hangzhou falls almost exactly on the meridian for the national offset, so the wall clock and the sun agree within a few minutes through the year, the closest such alignment of any major Chinese city. Its closeness to Shanghai gives the two an identical working day and a seamless rail commute, with no boundary of any kind to negotiate. The single timezone fixed after 1949 makes the entire delta one unbroken scheduling zone for business.
What are the working hours in Hangzhou?
Hangzhou is the headquarters of Alibaba and a centre of Chinese e-commerce, which orients much of working life around online retail, logistics, and digital payments, with a dense start-up scene feeding off the same talent pool. The long hours associated with the technology sector are common, though nominal office time runs 09:00 to 18:00. Major shopping events, above all Singles' Day on 11 November, drive intense seasonal workloads. The Spring Festival and the early-October holiday week remain the calendar's fixed points, though outside those weeks it is the e-commerce promotional calendar, not the public one, that sets the busiest periods.
Where is Hangzhou?
Hangzhou sits at the head of Hangzhou Bay where the Qiantang River meets the East China Sea, the capital of Zhejiang province around 170 kilometres south-west of Shanghai. The metropolitan area holds roughly 12 million people. It anchors the southern wing of the Yangtze Delta megaregion, tied to Shanghai by some of the busiest high-speed rail in the world, and the Qiantang is known for the dramatic tidal bore that surges up it each autumn.