Time Difference Between Beijing and Singapore
Singapore is the same time as Beijing all year. Neither city observes daylight saving time, so this difference stays constant.
Beijing keeps the same clock all year. Singapore keeps the same clock all year. The figure above holds for the whole year. It does not come from the offset on the day the site was built. The live clocks use the current time.
Working Hours Overlap
For each hour of Beijing's working day (9:00-18:00), here is the corresponding local time in Singapore. Rows highlighted green fall within standard working hours (9:00-18:00) in both cities. Each block is one part of the year, so the table does not change with the day this page was built.
| Beijing | Singapore | Both working hours? |
|---|---|---|
| 9 AM | 9 AM | Yes |
| 10 AM | 10 AM | Yes |
| 11 AM | 11 AM | Yes |
| 12 PM | 12 PM | Yes |
| 1 PM | 1 PM | Yes |
| 2 PM | 2 PM | Yes |
| 3 PM | 3 PM | Yes |
| 4 PM | 4 PM | Yes |
| 5 PM | 5 PM | Yes |
| 6 PM | 6 PM | No |
Best Time to Meet
- 9 AM-6 PM in Beijing (9 AM-6 PM in Singapore) works for both sides. It falls within 9 AM-6 PM in both time zones.
How the Difference Changes
The difference between Beijing and Singapore holds all year. Neither city changes its clocks.
Working Across Beijing and Singapore
Beijing and Singapore show the same time, all year. Both sit at UTC+8, neither observes daylight saving, and a 3 PM meeting is 3 PM for both. The calculator on this page will look almost empty of drama. Use it anyway when someone on the thread 'corrects' a colleague in Chengdu or Urumqi onto a different offset. China keeps one civil clock for the whole country. Singapore is not on a secret half hour relative to Beijing. If the times disagree, somebody's laptop is set to the wrong zone.
The trap is the holiday, not the hour. Lunar new year closes mainland offices for about a week, and the official calendar includes makeup workdays that can turn a Saturday into a workday on either side of the break. Singapore's public holiday for the same festival is two days. A Singapore team that files a deadline inside that mainland week will not get a Beijing reply, and a Beijing team that assumes Singapore has also vanished for the week is wrong the other way. The lunar date moves. Check the year you are actually planning.
The nonstop is about six hours, a half-day trip with no clock change at the far end. You land at the same hour your body expects, which makes the jet lag easy to underestimate: what you have is a short night or a long day, not a shifted one. Sleep once and you are done. The harder adjustment, if you came from further west to connect, already happened before this leg. Do not budget a recovery day for Beijing versus Singapore. Budget it for whatever got you that far.
Guides for this corridor
- Same clock, different calendar
New York and Toronto, Seoul and Tokyo, Hong Kong and Singapore, Beijing and Singapore. The offset is zero or close to it. The meetings fail on holidays, typhoons, and a week of lunar new year that only one side takes.
Beijing
Beijing uses the Asia/Shanghai time zone, at UTC+8 all year. This zone does not observe daylight saving time.
Singapore
Singapore uses the Asia/Singapore time zone, at UTC+8 all year. This zone does not observe daylight saving time.