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China's vast territory spans five time zones from the west to the east. For convenient communication in daily life, Beijing Standard Time (GMT+8) is used throughout the country, which is 13 hours ahead of New York and two hours behind Melbourne.

Xinjiang Province and Tibet are located in far west China, creating an obvious time difference of about two hours behind Beijing. With the adoption of Beijing Standard Time in the whole country, tourists from inland China to Tibet or Xinjiang Province may feel a little strange about their style of living. People there go to work at 10:00 and have the lunch at about 13:30. If tourists want to buy something in the marketplaces, you had better set out after 9:30, especially in winter.

We have the standard time in other cities around the globe, with 12:00 in Beijing as your reference.

City	Time	City	Time	City	Time
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	Jakarta	11:30	Rome	05:30
Bombay	09:30	Kuala Lumpur	11:30	Rwanda	05:00
Brussels	04:00	Lisbon	04:00	San Francisco	20:00
Budapest	05:00	London	04:00	Santiago	24:00
Buenos Aires	01:00	Manila	12:00	Seoul	13:00
Cairo	06:00	Melbourne	14:00	Singapore	11:30
Calcutta	09:00	Mexico City	21:00	Stockholm	05:00
Cape Town	06:00	Moscow	07:00	Sydney	14:00
Casablanca	04:00	New Delhi	09:30	Teheran	06:00
Colombo	09:30	New York	23:00	Tokyo	13:00
Copenhagen	05:00	Osaka	13:00	Vienna	05:00
Geneva	05:00	Panama City	23:00	Warsaw	05:00
Guatemala City	22:00	Paris	04:00	Washington	23:00
Helsinki	06:00	Pyongyang	13:00	Wellington	16:00

Please click here to see the Current local times around the world.

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