Current Time in Kunming, China

How Kunming Keeps Time

Kunming keeps CST, UTC+8. The live clock normally synchronizes to the site time source and then applies the IANA rules for Kunming; until synchronization succeeds, it uses the device clock as a fallback. Daylight-saving changes are applied only where that zone actually observes them.

Kunming runs on the Asia/Shanghai zone in the IANA time zone database, which is UTC+8 right now. There is no daylight saving here, so that offset holds all year and the difference to other places only changes when they move their own clocks.

The sun rises in Kunming at 7:12 am today and sets at 6:34 pm — 11 hours 23 minutes of daylight, with solar noon at 12:53 pm. Those times come from the city’s coordinates (25.04, 102.72), so they shift a little every day of the year.

On the two solstices, Kunming has about 13 hours 42 minutes of daylight in June and 10 hours 35 minutes in December. The difference is about 3 hours 7 minutes, which shows how strongly the local daylight cycle changes through the year.

At the current civil offset, Kunming’s longitude corresponds to a difference of about 1 hour 9 minutes between zone time and longitude-based mean solar time. Today’s calculated solar noon is 12:53 pm rather than 12:00 on the clock.

The whole of China keeps one time, so the clock on this page is also the clock in Beijing and in every other city listed below.

Kunming at a Glance

How Kunming Compares with Other Cities

Read the last column as the other city relative to Kunming. Where either place uses daylight saving, the gap changes for part of the year — the time difference calculator always shows today’s figure.

Nearby Listed Cities to Kunming

Distances are straight-line geographic distances between the coordinates used by the directory; road or rail distances will be longer.

Other Cities in China

All of these read UTC+8, the same as Kunming, because China keeps one zone nationally. Each page adds that city’s own sunrise, sunset and prayer times, which do differ.