Current time in Bei'an, China right now
It is 6:55 am in Bei'an, China 🇨🇳 right now, on Monday, September 28, 2026. The city keeps Asia/Shanghai, which is CST at UTC+8, so Bei'an is 8 hours ahead of UTC, where it is 10:55 pm. The sun rose in Bei'an at 5:28 am and sets at 5:20 pm, which is 11 hours 52 minutes of daylight.
What time is it in Bei'an right now?
The time in Bei'an, China is 6:55 am, 06:55 on a 24 hour clock, on Monday September 28, 2026. The reading above ticks from your own device against the Asia/Shanghai rules, so it stays right through a clock change rather than drifting an hour out twice a year.
Bei'an sits at 48.27 degrees north and 126.60 degrees east, well into the temperate belt and 5,367 km from the equator. Its clock is set to a zone whose nominal meridian is 120.0 degrees east, and the city itself is 6.6 degrees east of that line. Those 6.6 degrees are worth 26 minutes 24 seconds of sun time, which is most of why solar noon here lands at 11:24 am rather than on the stroke of twelve.
Bei'an time zone and UTC offset
The IANA zone for Bei'an, China is Asia/Shanghai. Right now it is running at UTC+8 and the abbreviation in force is CST. Bei'an does not change its clocks at any point in the year. The offset stays at UTC+8 in January and in July alike, so no conversion involving Bei'an ever needs a seasonal footnote.
Daylight hours in Bei'an today
The sun rose in Bei'an at 5:28 am and sets at 5:20 pm, which is 11 hours 52 minutes of daylight. Solar noon, the instant the sun stands at its highest over Bei'an, is at 11:24 am, which is 36 minutes before clock noon. The sun's declination today is -2.00 degrees, so at this latitude it reaches about 39.7 degrees above the horizon at its highest, to the south.
| Reading | Time in Bei'an |
|---|---|
| Sunrise | 5:28 am |
| Sunset | 5:20 pm |
| Solar noon | 11:24 am |
| Day length | 11 hours 52 minutes |
| Evening golden hour | 4:39 pm to 5:39 pm |
| Civil twilight ends | 5:51 pm |
The full month by month picture for this city, the extremes of the year and every twilight band are on the sunrise and sunset page for Bei'an, which works from the same coordinates.
Where Bei'an is on the map
The marker sits at the coordinates this whole page is computed from, so the sun times, the distances and the solar noon above all belong to this exact point rather than to the wider metropolitan area.
An interactive map of Bei'an. It loads when you scroll to it, so it costs nothing to the rest of the page. Open Bei'an on OpenStreetMap instead if you prefer.
Time difference between Bei'an and major cities
Every row below is computed at this instant, so daylight saving on either side is already in it. A positive figure means that city's clock reads later than Bei'an.
| City | Local time | Gap | Relative to Bei'an |
|---|---|---|---|
| Los Angeles, California | 3:55 pm | -15 | 15 hours behind of Bei'an |
| Chicago, Illinois | 5:55 pm | -13 | 13 hours behind of Bei'an |
| New York, New York | 6:55 pm | -12 | 12 hours behind of Bei'an |
| Toronto, Canada | 6:55 pm | -12 | 12 hours behind of Bei'an |
| Sao Paulo, Brazil | 7:55 pm | -11 | 11 hours behind of Bei'an |
| London, United Kingdom | 11:55 pm | -7 | 7 hours behind of Bei'an |
| Paris, France | 12:55 am | -6 | 6 hours behind of Bei'an |
| Berlin, Germany | 12:55 am | -6 | 6 hours behind of Bei'an |
| Johannesburg, South Africa | 12:55 am | -6 | 6 hours behind of Bei'an |
| Moscow, Russia | 1:55 am | -5 | 5 hours behind of Bei'an |
| Dubai, United Arab Emirates | 2:55 am | -4 | 4 hours behind of Bei'an |
| Delhi, India | 4:25 am | -2:30 | 2 hours 30 minutes behind of Bei'an |
| Singapore, Singapore | 6:55 am | 0 | same time as Bei'an |
| Hong Kong, China | 6:55 am | 0 | same time as Bei'an |
| Tokyo, Japan | 7:55 am | +1 | 1 hour ahead of Bei'an |
| Sydney, Australia | 8:55 am | +2 | 2 hours ahead of Bei'an |
Best time to call Bei'an
Treating a working day as 9am to 6pm on both sides, this is the window the two cities genuinely share. Some of these pairs have no shared working hour at all, which is worth knowing before a meeting is proposed.
| Calling from | Gap | Window in Bei'an | Their local time |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | -12 | no shared hour | no shared hour |
| Los Angeles | -15 | no shared hour | no shared hour |
| London | -7 | 4:00 pm to 6:00 pm | 9:00 am to 11:00 am |
| Delhi | -2:30 | 11:30 am to 6:00 pm | 9:00 am to 3:30 pm |
| Sydney | +2 | 9:00 am to 4:00 pm | 11:00 am to 6:00 pm |
Other cities in China
We cover 708 cities in China. These are the ones nearest to Bei'an, with the time on their clocks right now.
| City | Region | Local time | Offset |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hailun | Heilongjiang | 6:55 am | UTC+8 |
| Nehe | Heilongjiang | 6:55 am | UTC+8 |
| Yichun (Heilongjiang) | Heilongjiang | 6:55 am | UTC+8 |
| Tieli | Heilongjiang | 6:55 am | UTC+8 |
| Suihua | Heilongjiang | 6:55 am | UTC+8 |
| Aihui | Heilongjiang | 6:55 am | UTC+8 |
| Qiqihar | Heilongjiang | 6:55 am | UTC+8 |
| Daqing | Heilongjiang | 6:55 am | UTC+8 |
| Fendou | Heilongjiang | 6:55 am | UTC+8 |
| Longfeng | Heilongjiang | 6:55 am | UTC+8 |
| Anda | Heilongjiang | 6:55 am | UTC+8 |
| Heihe | Heilongjiang | 6:55 am | UTC+8 |
| Lianhe | Heilongjiang | 6:55 am | UTC+8 |
| Honggang | Heilongjiang | 6:55 am | UTC+8 |
| Zhaodong | Heilongjiang | 6:55 am | UTC+8 |
| Hulan Ergi | Heilongjiang | 6:55 am | UTC+8 |
Cities on Asia/Shanghai time
684 of our cities keep Asia/Shanghai, so every one of them reads 6:55 am at this moment and changes its clocks on the same night as Bei'an. Nearest first:
| City | Local time | From Bei'an |
|---|---|---|
| Hailun, China | 6:55 am | 94 km |
| Nehe, China | 6:55 am | 130 km |
| Yichun (Heilongjiang), China | 6:55 am | 180 km |
| Tieli, China | 6:55 am | 180 km |
| Suihua, China | 6:55 am | 182 km |
| Aihui, China | 6:55 am | 201 km |
| Qiqihar, China | 6:55 am | 222 km |
| Daqing, China | 6:55 am | 223 km |
| Fendou, China | 6:55 am | 223 km |
| Longfeng, China | 6:55 am | 223 km |
| Anda, China | 6:55 am | 225 km |
| Heihe, China | 6:55 am | 229 km |
| Lianhe, China | 6:55 am | 236 km |
| Honggang, China | 6:55 am | 245 km |
| Zhaodong, China | 6:55 am | 251 km |
| Hulan Ergi, China | 6:55 am | 251 km |
Moon phase over Bei'an tonight
The moon is a waning gibbous tonight, 16.8 days into its cycle and about 95% lit. The next full moon falls on October 26, 2026 at 12:11 pm Shanghai time, and the next new moon on October 10, 2026 at 11:49 pm. Both are the same instant everywhere on Earth, printed here on the Bei'an clock, which is why the calendar date can differ from the one a reader further east or west sees.
When the clocks change in Bei'an
There is no clock change scheduled in Asia/Shanghai within the next 400 days, so Bei'an stays at UTC+8 for the whole of that stretch.
That makes Bei'an an easy city to schedule against: a meeting fixed at a given hour here holds its relationship to UTC all year, and only the other end of the call can move.
How far Bei'an is from other cities
Great-circle distance, computed from the coordinates rather than road mileage. The nearest city we cover to Bei'an is Hailun, China at 94 km, and the furthest is Comodoro Rivadavia, Argentina at 18,916 km, which is 95% of the way to being exactly opposite.
| City | km | miles | Direction | Their time |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hailun, China | 94 | 59 | south | 6:55 am |
| Nehe, China | 130 | 81 | west | 6:55 am |
| Yichun (Heilongjiang), China | 180 | 112 | east | 6:55 am |
| Tieli, China | 180 | 112 | south east | 6:55 am |
| Suihua, China | 182 | 113 | south | 6:55 am |
| Aihui, China | 201 | 125 | north | 6:55 am |
| Qiqihar, China | 222 | 138 | south west | 6:55 am |
| Daqing, China | 223 | 138 | south west | 6:55 am |
| Fendou, China | 223 | 139 | south west | 6:55 am |
| Longfeng, China | 223 | 139 | south west | 6:55 am |
The antipode of Bei'an
Dig straight through the centre of the Earth from Bei'an, China and you come out at 48.27 degrees south, 53.40 degrees west. That point is in the South Atlantic Ocean. The nearest city in our catalogue to it is Comodoro Rivadavia, Argentina, 1,099 km away from the antipode itself, where the clock currently reads 7:55 pm on Sunday.
The antipode is worked out by flipping the latitude across the equator and swinging the longitude a half turn: 48.27 degrees north becomes 48.27 degrees south, and 126.60 degrees east becomes 53.40 degrees west. Two thirds of the planet is ocean and the land is unevenly spread, so most antipodes are open water: Bei'an is no exception. The local time at the antipode runs close to UTC-4, roughly twelve hours from Bei'an, because a half turn of longitude is a half turn of the day.
Sunrise and sunset in Bei'an
Today the sun rises in Bei'an at 5:28 am and sets at 5:20 pm, giving 11 hours 52 minutes of daylight. The dedicated page for this city carries the month by month table, the longest and shortest days of 2026, the golden and blue hour bands at both ends of the day, and all three twilight stages: sunrise and sunset times in Bei'an.
Hourly forecast for Bei'an
The next 7 hours, in Bei'an local time. Temperatures are given in Celsius and Fahrenheit.
- 6 AM 6°C 42°F Clear sky 7 km/h
- 7 AM 8°C 46°F Clear sky 7 km/h
- 8 AM 10°C 50°F Clear sky 5 km/h
- 9 AM 13°C 55°F Clear sky 6 km/h
- 10 AM 15°C 59°F Clear sky 6 km/h
- 11 AM 16°C 61°F Fair 8 km/h
- 12 PM 17°C 62°F Fair 9 km/h
Weather data from MET Norway, licensed CC BY 4.0. Forecast API.
7-day forecast for Bei'an
| Day | High | Low | Conditions | Rain |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sun 27 Sep | 17°C / 62°F | 7°C / 45°F | Fair | 0.1 mm |
| Mon 28 Sep | 17°C / 62°F | 5°C / 42°F | Fair | 0 mm |
| Tue 29 Sep | 12°C / 53°F | 6°C / 42°F | Rain | 4.7 mm |
| Wed 30 Sep | 11°C / 51°F | 3°C / 38°F | Partly cloudy | 0.1 mm |
| Thu 1 Oct | 9°C / 48°F | 2°C / 35°F | Rain | 2.4 mm |
| Fri 2 Oct | 11°C / 51°F | 3°C / 38°F | Fair | 0 mm |
| Sat 3 Oct | 9°C / 49°F | 1°C / 34°F | Cloudy | 0 mm |
Weather data from MET Norway, licensed CC BY 4.0. Forecast API.
Sun and moon in Bei'an today
The sun is up in Bei'an for 11 hours 52 minutes today, from 5:28 am to 5:20 pm. The moon sets in Bei'an at 7:12 am and comes up again at 5:32 pm. The next phase is the last quarter on October 3, 2026. It is 97% lit at the moment, a waning gibbous, thinning by about 3.5 percentage points a day.
| Sun | Time in Bei'an |
|---|---|
| Astronomical dawn | 3:43 am |
| Nautical dawn | 4:20 am |
| Civil dawn | 4:57 am |
| Sunrise | 5:28 am |
| Solar noon | 11:24 am |
| Sunset | 5:20 pm |
| Civil dusk | 5:51 pm |
| Nautical dusk | 6:27 pm |
| Astronomical dusk | 7:04 pm |
Twilight is graded by how far the sun has dropped below the horizon. Civil twilight ends six degrees down, which is roughly the point at which you need a light to read outside. Nautical twilight ends at twelve degrees, when the horizon at sea stops being usable for a sextant sight. Astronomical twilight ends at eighteen degrees, which is full darkness for an observer.
| Light band | Time in Bei'an | Length |
|---|---|---|
| Morning blue hour | 4:57 am to 5:09 am | 0h 12m |
| Morning golden hour | 5:09 am to 6:09 am | 1h 00m |
| Evening golden hour | 4:39 pm to 5:39 pm | 1h 00m |
| Evening blue hour | 5:39 pm to 5:51 pm | 0h 12m |
Golden hour is the stretch with the sun between six degrees above the horizon and four below it, and blue hour runs from there down to six degrees below. Neither is literally an hour: each is as long as the sun takes to cross those few degrees, which is minutes near the equator and can be most of the evening at high latitude.
| Moon | Reading in Bei'an |
|---|---|
| Moonrise | 5:32 pm |
| Moonset | 7:12 am |
| Phase | waning gibbous, waning |
| Illumination | 97% of the disc lit |
| Moon age | 17.0 days since the new moon |
| Distance | 374,400 km |
Moonrise and moonset are computed to the moment the moon's upper edge touches a flat horizon, allowing for refraction, for the size of the disc and for the moon's parallax, which together put the centre of the moon at 0.125 degrees above the horizon at the instant it rises. That is a different horizon from the one sunrise uses, and it is why a moonrise time cannot be worked out with a sunrise formula.
Meeting planner: Bei'an and four other places
Every hour of Monday, September 28, 2026 in Bei'an, China, read across 4 other places. Columns are Bei'an local hours. A shaded cell is an hour inside 9 to 5 there, and a solid one is an hour inside 9 to 5 everywhere in the grid.
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| Bei'an local hour | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bei'anCST UTC+8 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 |
| Los AngelesPDT UTC-7 | 9-1 | 10-1 | 11-1 | 12-1 | 13-1 | 14-1 | 15-1 | 16-1 | 17-1 | 18-1 | 19-1 | 20-1 | 21-1 | 22-1 | 23-1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 |
| New YorkEDT UTC-4 | 12-1 | 13-1 | 14-1 | 15-1 | 16-1 | 17-1 | 18-1 | 19-1 | 20-1 | 21-1 | 22-1 | 23-1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 |
| LondonBST UTC+1 | 17-1 | 18-1 | 19-1 | 20-1 | 21-1 | 22-1 | 23-1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 |
| DelhiIST UTC+5:30 | 21:30-1 | 22:30-1 | 23:30-1 | 0:30 | 1:30 | 2:30 | 3:30 | 4:30 | 5:30 | 6:30 | 7:30 | 8:30 | 9:30 | 10:30 | 11:30 | 12:30 | 13:30 | 14:30 | 15:30 | 16:30 | 17:30 | 18:30 | 19:30 | 20:30 |
No hour on Monday, September 28, 2026 is inside 9 to 5 in all 5 places, so nothing is highlighted as a shared working hour. Bei'an and Los Angeles are 15 hours apart, which is more than the eight hour working day leaves room for. The closest is 3 of 5: from 4:00 pm in Bei'an it is working hours in Bei'an, London and Delhi, but outside them in Los Angeles and New York. A meeting across this set has to be early or late for somebody.
Prayer times in Bei'an
Seven days from September 28, 2026, computed for Bei'an, China at 48.27 degrees north, 126.60 degrees east, on the clock of Asia/Shanghai. The method is Muslim World League (Muslim World League, Mecca), which puts Fajr at 18.0 degrees below the horizon and Isha at 17.0 degrees. Asr uses the Standard shadow ratio of 1, which is the Shafi'i, Maliki and Hanbali position.
| Date | Fajr | Sunrise | Dhuhr | Asr | Maghrib | Isha |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Monday September 28 | 3:43 am | 5:28 am | 11:24 am | 2:39 pm | 5:20 pm | 6:58 pm |
| Tuesday September 29 | 3:45 am | 5:29 am | 11:24 am | 2:37 pm | 5:18 pm | 6:56 pm |
| Wednesday September 30 | 3:46 am | 5:31 am | 11:24 am | 2:36 pm | 5:16 pm | 6:54 pm |
| Thursday October 1 | 3:48 am | 5:32 am | 11:23 am | 2:34 pm | 5:14 pm | 6:52 pm |
| Friday October 2 | 3:49 am | 5:34 am | 11:23 am | 2:33 pm | 5:12 pm | 6:49 pm |
| Saturday October 3 | 3:51 am | 5:35 am | 11:23 am | 2:31 pm | 5:10 pm | 6:47 pm |
| Sunday October 4 | 3:52 am | 5:37 am | 11:22 am | 2:30 pm | 5:08 pm | 6:45 pm |
Dhuhr is solar noon at Bei'an, China, the instant the Sun crosses the local meridian, so it moves with longitude inside the time zone and with the equation of time through the year rather than sitting at a fixed clock reading. Sunrise and Maghrib are the standard refracted horizon, the same 0.833 degrees every almanac uses. Every figure above is computed from the Sun's position for this exact coordinate; none of it is copied from a table.
Different methods disagree, and that is expected rather than an error. Fajr under ISNA at 15 degrees comes later than Fajr under Egyptian General Authority of Survey at 19.5 degrees, by twenty minutes or more depending on latitude and season. Follow whichever your local mosque follows.
Qibla direction from Bei'an
From Bei'an, China the qibla is 282.4 degrees on a true compass, which is west-northwest, or 12.4 degrees south of due west. The Kaaba is 8,017 km away, 4,981 miles, measured over the surface of the Earth.
That figure is the initial bearing of the great circle from Bei'an, China to 21.4225 degrees north, 39.8262 degrees east, which is the Kaaba inside Masjid al-Haram.
The bearing is measured from true north, not magnetic north. A magnetic compass points at the magnetic pole, and the difference between the two can be anything from nothing to more than twenty degrees depending where you are, so check your compass reading against magnetic declination for Bei'an, China before you use it. A phone compass set to true north, or the shadow of a vertical stick at local solar noon, avoids the problem entirely.
Put a Bei'an clock on your site
A live clock showing the current time in Bei'an, China, ready to paste into any page that accepts HTML. It reads Asia/Shanghai from the time zone database, so it stays right when Bei'an changes its clocks, and it shows CST to every visitor wherever they are reading from. It is a plain iframe: no account, no script to install, nothing to pay.
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Bei'an time now: common questions
- What time is it in Bei'an, China right now?
- 6:55 am on Monday September 28, 2026. Bei'an runs on CST, UTC+8.
- What time zone is Bei'an in?
- Asia/Shanghai, currently CST at UTC+8. 684 of the cities on this site keep that zone.
- What is the UTC offset for Bei'an?
- UTC+8 at this instant. It is UTC+8 all year round, with no seasonal change.
- Does Bei'an observe daylight saving time?
- No. Bei'an stays on UTC+8 for the whole year.
- How many hours ahead or behind is Bei'an of New York?
- Bei'an is 12 hours ahead of New York, where it is 6:55 pm right now.
- What time does the sun set in Bei'an today?
- 5:20 pm, after a sunrise at 5:28 am and 11 hours 52 minutes of daylight.
- What is on the exact opposite side of the Earth from Bei'an?
- 48.27 degrees south, 53.40 degrees west, in the South Atlantic Ocean.
- When is the best time to call Bei'an from London?
- Between 4:00 pm and 6:00 pm in Bei'an, which is 9:00 am to 11:00 am in London.
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