Current time in Xi'an, China
The current local time in Xi'an is shown below. Xi'an observes CST.
What's the daylight saving status?
Xi'an 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 Xi'an?
Xi'an has a direct link to the national clock that belies its inland setting: the National Time Service Center, which generates and broadcasts China's standard time signals, lies just east of the city at Lintong. Yet near 109 degrees east the city sits well west of the meridian that offset is built around, so solar noon falls some 40 minutes after the civil midday. It is a daily illustration of what it means to run a single clock across a country five geographic time zones wide.
What are the working hours in Xi'an?
Aerospace and defence manufacturing, a dense cluster of universities, and a substantial heritage-tourism sector around the Terracotta Army and the imperial tombs shape local employment. Offices keep the national 09:00 to 18:00 day with a long lunch. The deep-interior location has historically held wages and property costs below the coastal cities, drawing back-office, research, and software operations inland from the east. The Spring Festival and the early-October National Day holiday are the dominant annual closures across the city.
Where is Xi'an?
Xi'an lies on the Guanzhong plain in the Wei River valley of Shaanxi province, its centre still ringed by intact Ming-era walls that trace the outline of the old imperial city. Around 13 million people live in the metropolitan area, the largest urban centre of the country's north-west. For much of antiquity it was the eastern terminus of the Silk Road and the capital of successive dynasties, a role that left it deep inland, roughly 900 kilometres south-west of Beijing.