Current time in Sino-Singapore Tianjin Eco-city, China right now
It is 9:38 am in Sino-Singapore Tianjin Eco-city, China 🇨🇳 right now, on Sunday, September 27, 2026. The city keeps Asia/Shanghai, which is CST at UTC+8, so Sino-Singapore Tianjin Eco-city is 8 hours ahead of UTC, where it is 1:38 am. The sun rose in Sino-Singapore Tianjin Eco-city at 6:01 am and sets at 5:59 pm, which is 11 hours 58 minutes of daylight.
What time is it in Sino-Singapore Tianjin Eco-city right now?
The time in Sino-Singapore Tianjin Eco-city, China is 9:38 am, 09:38 on a 24 hour clock, on Sunday September 27, 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.
Sino-Singapore Tianjin Eco-city sits at 39.15 degrees north and 117.78 degrees east, at a middle latitude and 4,354 km from the equator. Its clock is set to a zone whose nominal meridian is 120.0 degrees east, and the city itself is 2.2 degrees west of that line. Those 2.2 degrees are worth 8 minutes 52 seconds of sun time, which is most of why solar noon here lands at 12:00 pm rather than on the stroke of twelve.
Sino-Singapore Tianjin Eco-city time zone and UTC offset
The IANA zone for Sino-Singapore Tianjin Eco-city, China is Asia/Shanghai. Right now it is running at UTC+8 and the abbreviation in force is CST. Sino-Singapore Tianjin Eco-city 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 Sino-Singapore Tianjin Eco-city ever needs a seasonal footnote.
Daylight hours in Sino-Singapore Tianjin Eco-city today
The sun rose in Sino-Singapore Tianjin Eco-city at 6:01 am and sets at 5:59 pm, which is 11 hours 58 minutes of daylight. Solar noon, the instant the sun stands at its highest over Sino-Singapore Tianjin Eco-city, is at 12:00 pm, which is almost exactly clock noon. The sun's declination today is -1.62 degrees, so at this latitude it reaches about 49.2 degrees above the horizon at its highest, to the south.
| Reading | Time in Sino-Singapore Tianjin Eco-city |
|---|---|
| Sunrise | 6:01 am |
| Sunset | 5:59 pm |
| Solar noon | 12:00 pm |
| Day length | 11 hours 58 minutes |
| Evening golden hour | 5:23 pm to 6:15 pm |
| Civil twilight ends | 6:25 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 Sino-Singapore Tianjin Eco-city, which works from the same coordinates.
Where Sino-Singapore Tianjin Eco-city 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.
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Time difference between Sino-Singapore Tianjin Eco-city 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 Sino-Singapore Tianjin Eco-city.
| City | Local time | Gap | Relative to Sino-Singapore Tianjin Eco-city |
|---|---|---|---|
| Los Angeles, California | 6:38 pm | -15 | 15 hours behind of Sino-Singapore Tianjin Eco-city |
| Chicago, Illinois | 8:38 pm | -13 | 13 hours behind of Sino-Singapore Tianjin Eco-city |
| New York, New York | 9:38 pm | -12 | 12 hours behind of Sino-Singapore Tianjin Eco-city |
| Toronto, Canada | 9:38 pm | -12 | 12 hours behind of Sino-Singapore Tianjin Eco-city |
| Sao Paulo, Brazil | 10:38 pm | -11 | 11 hours behind of Sino-Singapore Tianjin Eco-city |
| London, United Kingdom | 2:38 am | -7 | 7 hours behind of Sino-Singapore Tianjin Eco-city |
| Paris, France | 3:38 am | -6 | 6 hours behind of Sino-Singapore Tianjin Eco-city |
| Berlin, Germany | 3:38 am | -6 | 6 hours behind of Sino-Singapore Tianjin Eco-city |
| Johannesburg, South Africa | 3:38 am | -6 | 6 hours behind of Sino-Singapore Tianjin Eco-city |
| Moscow, Russia | 4:38 am | -5 | 5 hours behind of Sino-Singapore Tianjin Eco-city |
| Dubai, United Arab Emirates | 5:38 am | -4 | 4 hours behind of Sino-Singapore Tianjin Eco-city |
| Delhi, India | 7:08 am | -2:30 | 2 hours 30 minutes behind of Sino-Singapore Tianjin Eco-city |
| Singapore, Singapore | 9:38 am | 0 | same time as Sino-Singapore Tianjin Eco-city |
| Hong Kong, China | 9:38 am | 0 | same time as Sino-Singapore Tianjin Eco-city |
| Tokyo, Japan | 10:38 am | +1 | 1 hour ahead of Sino-Singapore Tianjin Eco-city |
| Sydney, Australia | 11:38 am | +2 | 2 hours ahead of Sino-Singapore Tianjin Eco-city |
Best time to call Sino-Singapore Tianjin Eco-city
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 Sino-Singapore Tianjin Eco-city | 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 Sino-Singapore Tianjin Eco-city, with the time on their clocks right now.
| City | Region | Local time | Offset |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hangu | Tianjin | 9:38 am | UTC+8 |
| Tanggu | Tianjin | 9:38 am | UTC+8 |
| Tianjin | Tianjin | 9:38 am | UTC+8 |
| Tangshan | Hebei | 9:38 am | UTC+8 |
| Linxi | Hebei | 9:38 am | UTC+8 |
| Langfang | Hebei | 9:38 am | UTC+8 |
| Sanhe | Hebei | 9:38 am | UTC+8 |
| Cangzhou | Hebei | 9:38 am | UTC+8 |
| Tongzhou | Beijing | 9:38 am | UTC+8 |
| Daxing | Beijing | 9:38 am | UTC+8 |
| Beijing | Beijing | 9:38 am | UTC+8 |
| Shunyi | Beijing | 9:38 am | UTC+8 |
| Mentougou | Beijing | 9:38 am | UTC+8 |
| Qinhuangdao | Hebei | 9:38 am | UTC+8 |
| Shanhaiguan | Hebei | 9:38 am | UTC+8 |
| Dongying | Shandong | 9:38 am | UTC+8 |
Cities on Asia/Shanghai time
684 of our cities keep Asia/Shanghai, so every one of them reads 9:38 am at this moment and changes its clocks on the same night as Sino-Singapore Tianjin Eco-city. Nearest first:
| City | Local time | From Sino-Singapore Tianjin Eco-city |
|---|---|---|
| Hangu, China | 9:38 am | 11 km |
| Tanggu, China | 9:38 am | 19 km |
| Tianjin, China | 9:38 am | 52 km |
| Tangshan, China | 9:38 am | 64 km |
| Linxi, China | 9:38 am | 84 km |
| Langfang, China | 9:38 am | 101 km |
| Sanhe, China | 9:38 am | 111 km |
| Cangzhou, China | 9:38 am | 124 km |
| Tongzhou, China | 9:38 am | 127 km |
| Daxing, China | 9:38 am | 141 km |
| Beijing, China | 9:38 am | 145 km |
| Shunyi, China | 9:38 am | 145 km |
| Mentougou, China | 9:38 am | 169 km |
| Qinhuangdao, China | 9:38 am | 178 km |
| Shanhaiguan, China | 9:38 am | 193 km |
| Dongying, China | 9:38 am | 198 km |
Moon phase over Sino-Singapore Tianjin Eco-city tonight
The moon is a waning gibbous tonight, 15.9 days into its cycle and about 98% 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 Sino-Singapore Tianjin Eco-city clock, which is why the calendar date can differ from the one a reader further east or west sees.
When the clocks change in Sino-Singapore Tianjin Eco-city
There is no clock change scheduled in Asia/Shanghai within the next 400 days, so Sino-Singapore Tianjin Eco-city stays at UTC+8 for the whole of that stretch.
That makes Sino-Singapore Tianjin Eco-city 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 Sino-Singapore Tianjin Eco-city is from other cities
Great-circle distance, computed from the coordinates rather than road mileage. The nearest city we cover to Sino-Singapore Tianjin Eco-city is Hangu, China at 11 km, and the furthest is Bahia Blanca, Argentina at 19,966 km, which is 100% of the way to being exactly opposite.
| City | km | miles | Direction | Their time |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hangu, China | 11 | 7 | north | 9:38 am |
| Tanggu, China | 19 | 12 | south west | 9:38 am |
| Tianjin, China | 52 | 33 | west | 9:38 am |
| Tangshan, China | 64 | 40 | north east | 9:38 am |
| Linxi, China | 84 | 52 | north east | 9:38 am |
| Langfang, China | 101 | 63 | north west | 9:38 am |
| Sanhe, China | 111 | 69 | north west | 9:38 am |
| Cangzhou, China | 124 | 77 | south west | 9:38 am |
| Tongzhou, China | 127 | 79 | north west | 9:38 am |
| Daxing, China | 141 | 88 | north west | 9:38 am |
The antipode of Sino-Singapore Tianjin Eco-city
Dig straight through the centre of the Earth from Sino-Singapore Tianjin Eco-city, China and you come out at 39.15 degrees south, 62.22 degrees west. That point is near Bahia Blanca, Argentina. The nearest city in our catalogue to it is Bahia Blanca, Argentina, 49 km away from the antipode itself, where the clock currently reads 10:38 pm on Saturday.
The antipode is worked out by flipping the latitude across the equator and swinging the longitude a half turn: 39.15 degrees north becomes 39.15 degrees south, and 117.78 degrees east becomes 62.22 degrees west. Two thirds of the planet is ocean and the land is unevenly spread, so most antipodes are open water: Sino-Singapore Tianjin Eco-city is one of the exceptions, with dry land on the far side. The local time at the antipode runs close to UTC-4, roughly twelve hours from Sino-Singapore Tianjin Eco-city, because a half turn of longitude is a half turn of the day.
Sunrise and sunset in Sino-Singapore Tianjin Eco-city
Today the sun rises in Sino-Singapore Tianjin Eco-city at 6:01 am and sets at 5:59 pm, giving 11 hours 58 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 Sino-Singapore Tianjin Eco-city.
Hourly forecast for Sino-Singapore Tianjin Eco-city
The next 17 hours, in Sino-Singapore Tianjin Eco-city local time. Temperatures are given in Celsius and Fahrenheit.
- 9 AM 21°C 69°F Fair 13 km/h
- 10 AM 22°C 72°F Partly cloudy 19 km/h
- 11 AM 23°C 74°F Fair 19 km/h
- 12 PM 24°C 75°F Clear sky 17 km/h
- 1 PM 24°C 76°F Clear sky 16 km/h
- 2 PM 25°C 77°F Clear sky 15 km/h
- 3 PM 25°C 77°F Fair 16 km/h
- 4 PM 24°C 76°F Partly cloudy 17 km/h
- 5 PM 24°C 74°F Partly cloudy 14 km/h
- 6 PM 21°C 71°F Partly cloudy 9 km/h
- 7 PM 21°C 69°F Partly cloudy 8 km/h
- 8 PM 20°C 68°F Partly cloudy 7 km/h
- 9 PM 19°C 66°F Partly cloudy 8 km/h
- 10 PM 19°C 67°F Fair 11 km/h
- 11 PM 19°C 65°F Partly cloudy 12 km/h
- 12 AM 18°C 64°F Partly cloudy 10 km/h
- 1 AM 18°C 64°F Clear sky 12 km/h
Weather data from MET Norway, licensed CC BY 4.0. Forecast API.
7-day forecast for Sino-Singapore Tianjin Eco-city
| Day | High | Low | Conditions | Rain |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sat 26 Sep | 20°C / 68°F | 20°C / 68°F | Heavy rain | 4.2 mm |
| Sun 27 Sep | 25°C / 77°F | 19°C / 65°F | Clear sky | 1.8 mm |
| Mon 28 Sep | 22°C / 72°F | 17°C / 62°F | Partly cloudy | 0 mm |
| Tue 29 Sep | 26°C / 78°F | 18°C / 64°F | Clear sky | 0 mm |
| Wed 30 Sep | 19°C / 65°F | 15°C / 59°F | Clear sky | 0 mm |
| Thu 1 Oct | 19°C / 66°F | 13°C / 55°F | Clear sky | 0 mm |
| Fri 2 Oct | 16°C / 61°F | 13°C / 55°F | Cloudy | 1.4 mm |
Weather data from MET Norway, licensed CC BY 4.0. Forecast API.
Sun and moon in Sino-Singapore Tianjin Eco-city today
The sun is up in Sino-Singapore Tianjin Eco-city for 11 hours 58 minutes today, from 6:01 am to 5:59 pm. The moon sets in Sino-Singapore Tianjin Eco-city at 6:23 am and comes up again at 6:00 pm. The next phase is the last quarter on October 3, 2026. The moon is full, or as near to it as makes no difference, and the whole of the face turned towards us is lit.
| Sun | Time in Sino-Singapore Tianjin Eco-city |
|---|---|
| Astronomical dawn | 4:31 am |
| Nautical dawn | 5:03 am |
| Civil dawn | 5:34 am |
| Sunrise | 6:01 am |
| Solar noon | 12:00 pm |
| Sunset | 5:59 pm |
| Civil dusk | 6:25 pm |
| Nautical dusk | 6:56 pm |
| Astronomical dusk | 7:28 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 Sino-Singapore Tianjin Eco-city | Length |
|---|---|---|
| Morning blue hour | 5:34 am to 5:44 am | 0h 10m |
| Morning golden hour | 5:44 am to 6:36 am | 0h 52m |
| Evening golden hour | 5:23 pm to 6:15 pm | 0h 52m |
| Evening blue hour | 6:15 pm to 6:25 pm | 0h 10m |
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 Sino-Singapore Tianjin Eco-city |
|---|---|
| Moonrise | 6:00 pm |
| Moonset | 6:23 am |
| Phase | waning gibbous, waning |
| Illumination | 100% of the disc lit |
| Moon age | 16.0 days since the new moon |
| Distance | 377,700 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: Sino-Singapore Tianjin Eco-city and four other places
Every hour of Sunday, September 27, 2026 in Sino-Singapore Tianjin Eco-city, China, read across 4 other places. Columns are Sino-Singapore Tianjin Eco-city 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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| Sino-Singapore Tianjin Eco-city 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sino-Singapore Tianjin Eco-cityCST 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 Sunday, September 27, 2026 is inside 9 to 5 in all 5 places, so nothing is highlighted as a shared working hour. Sino-Singapore Tianjin Eco-city 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 Sino-Singapore Tianjin Eco-city it is working hours in Sino-Singapore Tianjin Eco-city, 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 Sino-Singapore Tianjin Eco-city
Seven days from September 27, 2026, computed for Sino-Singapore Tianjin Eco-city, China at 39.15 degrees north, 117.78 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sunday September 27 | 4:31 am | 6:01 am | 12:00 pm | 3:23 pm | 5:59 pm | 7:22 pm |
| Monday September 28 | 4:32 am | 6:02 am | 12:00 pm | 3:22 pm | 5:57 pm | 7:21 pm |
| Tuesday September 29 | 4:33 am | 6:03 am | 11:59 am | 3:20 pm | 5:55 pm | 7:19 pm |
| Wednesday September 30 | 4:34 am | 6:04 am | 11:59 am | 3:19 pm | 5:54 pm | 7:17 pm |
| Thursday October 1 | 4:35 am | 6:04 am | 11:59 am | 3:18 pm | 5:52 pm | 7:16 pm |
| Friday October 2 | 4:36 am | 6:05 am | 11:58 am | 3:17 pm | 5:51 pm | 7:14 pm |
| Saturday October 3 | 4:37 am | 6:06 am | 11:58 am | 3:16 pm | 5:49 pm | 7:13 pm |
Dhuhr is solar noon at Sino-Singapore Tianjin Eco-city, 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 Sino-Singapore Tianjin Eco-city
From Sino-Singapore Tianjin Eco-city, China the qibla is 280.0 degrees on a true compass, which is west, or 10.0 degrees south of due west. The Kaaba is 7,516 km away, 4,670 miles, measured over the surface of the Earth.
That figure is the initial bearing of the great circle from Sino-Singapore Tianjin Eco-city, 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 Sino-Singapore Tianjin Eco-city, 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.
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Sino-Singapore Tianjin Eco-city time now: common questions
- What time is it in Sino-Singapore Tianjin Eco-city, China right now?
- 9:38 am on Sunday September 27, 2026. Sino-Singapore Tianjin Eco-city runs on CST, UTC+8.
- What time zone is Sino-Singapore Tianjin Eco-city in?
- Asia/Shanghai, currently CST at UTC+8. 684 of the cities on this site keep that zone.
- What is the UTC offset for Sino-Singapore Tianjin Eco-city?
- UTC+8 at this instant. It is UTC+8 all year round, with no seasonal change.
- Does Sino-Singapore Tianjin Eco-city observe daylight saving time?
- No. Sino-Singapore Tianjin Eco-city stays on UTC+8 for the whole year.
- How many hours ahead or behind is Sino-Singapore Tianjin Eco-city of New York?
- Sino-Singapore Tianjin Eco-city is 12 hours ahead of New York, where it is 9:38 pm right now.
- What time does the sun set in Sino-Singapore Tianjin Eco-city today?
- 5:59 pm, after a sunrise at 6:01 am and 11 hours 58 minutes of daylight.
- What is on the exact opposite side of the Earth from Sino-Singapore Tianjin Eco-city?
- 39.15 degrees south, 62.22 degrees west, near Bahia Blanca, Argentina.
- When is the best time to call Sino-Singapore Tianjin Eco-city from London?
- Between 4:00 pm and 6:00 pm in Sino-Singapore Tianjin Eco-city, which is 9:00 am to 11:00 am in London.
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