Current time in Qitaihe, China right now

It is 2:52 am in Qitaihe, China 🇨🇳 right now, on Monday, September 28, 2026. The city keeps Asia/Shanghai, which is CST at UTC+8, so Qitaihe is 8 hours ahead of UTC, where it is 6:52 pm. The sun rose in Qitaihe at 5:10 am and sets at 5:03 pm, which is 11 hours 53 minutes of daylight.

What time is it in Qitaihe right now?

The time in Qitaihe, China is 2:52 am, 02:52 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.

Qitaihe sits at 45.77 degrees north and 131.00 degrees east, well into the temperate belt and 5,089 km from the equator. Its clock is set to a zone whose nominal meridian is 120.0 degrees east, and the city itself is 11.0 degrees east of that line. Those 11.0 degrees are worth 43 minutes 59 seconds of sun time, which is most of why solar noon here lands at 11:07 am rather than on the stroke of twelve.

Qitaihe time zone and UTC offset

The IANA zone for Qitaihe, China is Asia/Shanghai. Right now it is running at UTC+8 and the abbreviation in force is CST. Qitaihe 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 Qitaihe ever needs a seasonal footnote.

Daylight hours in Qitaihe today

The sun rose in Qitaihe at 5:10 am and sets at 5:03 pm, which is 11 hours 53 minutes of daylight. Solar noon, the instant the sun stands at its highest over Qitaihe, is at 11:07 am, which is 53 minutes before clock noon. The sun's declination today is -1.99 degrees, so at this latitude it reaches about 42.2 degrees above the horizon at its highest, to the south.

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 Qitaihe, which works from the same coordinates.

Where Qitaihe 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.

Time difference between Qitaihe 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 Qitaihe.

Best time to call Qitaihe

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.

Other cities in China

We cover 708 cities in China. These are the ones nearest to Qitaihe, with the time on their clocks right now.

Cities on Asia/Shanghai time

684 of our cities keep Asia/Shanghai, so every one of them reads 2:52 am at this moment and changes its clocks on the same night as Qitaihe. Nearest first:

Moon phase over Qitaihe tonight

The moon is a waning gibbous tonight, 16.6 days into its cycle and about 96% 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 Qitaihe clock, which is why the calendar date can differ from the one a reader further east or west sees.

When the clocks change in Qitaihe

There is no clock change scheduled in Asia/Shanghai within the next 400 days, so Qitaihe stays at UTC+8 for the whole of that stretch.

That makes Qitaihe 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 Qitaihe is from other cities

Great-circle distance, computed from the coordinates rather than road mileage. The nearest city we cover to Qitaihe is Didao, China at 48 km, and the furthest is Mar del Plata, Argentina at 18,900 km, which is 94% of the way to being exactly opposite.

The antipode of Qitaihe

Dig straight through the centre of the Earth from Qitaihe, China and you come out at 45.77 degrees south, 49.00 degrees west. That point is in the South Atlantic Ocean. The nearest city in our catalogue to it is Mar del Plata, Argentina, 1,115 km away from the antipode itself, where the clock currently reads 3:52 pm on Sunday.

The antipode is worked out by flipping the latitude across the equator and swinging the longitude a half turn: 45.77 degrees north becomes 45.77 degrees south, and 131.00 degrees east becomes 49.00 degrees west. Two thirds of the planet is ocean and the land is unevenly spread, so most antipodes are open water: Qitaihe is no exception. The local time at the antipode runs close to UTC-4, roughly twelve hours from Qitaihe, because a half turn of longitude is a half turn of the day.

Sunrise and sunset in Qitaihe

Today the sun rises in Qitaihe at 5:10 am and sets at 5:03 pm, giving 11 hours 53 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 Qitaihe.

Sun and moon in Qitaihe today

The sun is up in Qitaihe for 11 hours 53 minutes today, from 5:10 am to 5:03 pm. The moon sets in Qitaihe at 6:49 am and comes up again at 5:20 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.

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.

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.

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.

Prayer times in Qitaihe

Seven days from September 28, 2026, computed for Qitaihe, China at 45.77 degrees north, 131.00 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.

Dhuhr is solar noon at Qitaihe, 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 Qitaihe

From Qitaihe, China the qibla is 286.1 degrees on a true compass, which is west-northwest, or 16.1 degrees south of due west. The Kaaba is 8,408 km away, 5,224 miles, measured over the surface of the Earth.

That figure is the initial bearing of the great circle from Qitaihe, 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 Qitaihe, 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.

Qitaihe time now: common questions

What time is it in Qitaihe, China right now?

2:52 am on Monday September 28, 2026. Qitaihe runs on CST, UTC+8.

What time zone is Qitaihe in?

Asia/Shanghai, currently CST at UTC+8. 684 of the cities on this site keep that zone.

What is the UTC offset for Qitaihe?

UTC+8 at this instant. It is UTC+8 all year round, with no seasonal change.

Does Qitaihe observe daylight saving time?

No. Qitaihe stays on UTC+8 for the whole year.

How many hours ahead or behind is Qitaihe of New York?

Qitaihe is 12 hours ahead of New York, where it is 2:52 pm right now.

What time does the sun set in Qitaihe today?

5:03 pm, after a sunrise at 5:10 am and 11 hours 53 minutes of daylight.

What is on the exact opposite side of the Earth from Qitaihe?

45.77 degrees south, 49.00 degrees west, in the South Atlantic Ocean.

When is the best time to call Qitaihe from London?

Between 4:00 pm and 6:00 pm in Qitaihe, which is 9:00 am to 11:00 am in London.

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