Current Time in Urumqi, China

How Urumqi Keeps Time

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

Urumqi 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 Urumqi at 8:35 am today and sets at 7:12 pm — 10 hours 37 minutes of daylight, with solar noon at 1:53 pm. Those times come from the city’s coordinates (43.83, 87.62), so they shift a little every day of the year.

On the two solstices, Urumqi has about 15 hours 28 minutes of daylight in June and 8 hours 54 minutes in December. The difference is about 6 hours 34 minutes, which shows how strongly the local daylight cycle changes through the year.

At the current civil offset, Urumqi’s longitude corresponds to a difference of about 2 hours 10 minutes between zone time and longitude-based mean solar time. Today’s calculated solar noon is 1:53 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.

Urumqi at a Glance

How Urumqi Compares with Other Cities

Read the last column as the other city relative to Urumqi. 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 Urumqi

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 Urumqi, because China keeps one zone nationally. Each page adds that city’s own sunrise, sunset and prayer times, which do differ.