Hong Kong uses Hong Kong Time (HKT), UTC+8, the same as mainland China, Singapore and Taipei. It has its own legal time zone and has not used summer time since 1979.
Time zone facts
- IANA time zone: Asia/Hong_Kong
- Country: Hong Kong (HK)
- Coordinates: 22.3193°, 114.1694°
Official time in Hong Kong
The Hong Kong Observatory maintains the city’s official time standard. Hong Kong used summer time on and off for decades, but the practice ended in 1979, so today the offset stays at UTC+8 all year.
Markets and business
The Hong Kong stock exchange trades from 9:30 to 16:00 with a lunch break, overlapping completely with mainland China and Singapore and with the start of the London day in the late afternoon.