Current time in Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong right now
It is 5:39 am in Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong 🇭🇰 right now, on Saturday, November 7, 2026. The city keeps Asia/Hong_Kong, which is HKT at UTC+8, so Hong Kong Island is 8 hours ahead of UTC, where it is 9:39 pm. The sun rose in Hong Kong Island at 6:30 am and sets at 5:43 pm, which is 11 hours 13 minutes of daylight.
What time is it in Hong Kong Island right now?
The time in Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong is 5:39 am, 05:39 on a 24 hour clock, on Saturday November 7, 2026. The reading above ticks from your own device against the Asia/Hong_Kong rules, so it stays right through a clock change rather than drifting an hour out twice a year.
Hong Kong Island sits at 22.26 degrees north and 114.18 degrees east, inside the tropics, north of the equator and 2,476 km from the equator. Its clock is set to a zone whose nominal meridian is 120.0 degrees east, and the city itself is 5.8 degrees west of that line. Those 5.8 degrees are worth 23 minutes 16 seconds of sun time, which is most of why solar noon here lands at 12:07 pm rather than on the stroke of twelve.
Hong Kong Island time zone and UTC offset
The IANA zone for Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong is Asia/Hong_Kong. Right now it is running at UTC+8 and the abbreviation in force is HKT. Hong Kong Island 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 Hong Kong Island ever needs a seasonal footnote.
Daylight hours in Hong Kong Island today
The sun rose in Hong Kong Island at 6:30 am and sets at 5:43 pm, which is 11 hours 13 minutes of daylight. Solar noon, the instant the sun stands at its highest over Hong Kong Island, is at 12:07 pm, which is 7 minutes after clock noon. The sun's declination today is -16.26 degrees, so at this latitude it reaches about 51.5 degrees above the horizon at its highest, to the south.
| Reading | Time in Hong Kong Island |
|---|---|
| Sunrise | 6:30 am |
| Sunset | 5:43 pm |
| Solar noon | 12:07 pm |
| Day length | 11 hours 13 minutes |
| Evening golden hour | 5:12 pm to 5:57 pm |
| Civil twilight ends | 6:06 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 Hong Kong Island, which works from the same coordinates.
Where Hong Kong Island 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 Hong Kong Island. It loads when you scroll to it, so it costs nothing to the rest of the page. Open Hong Kong Island on OpenStreetMap instead if you prefer.
Time difference between Hong Kong Island 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 Hong Kong Island.
| City | Local time | Gap | Relative to Hong Kong Island |
|---|---|---|---|
| Los Angeles, California | 1:39 pm | -16 | 16 hours behind of Hong Kong Island |
| Chicago, Illinois | 3:39 pm | -14 | 14 hours behind of Hong Kong Island |
| New York, New York | 4:39 pm | -13 | 13 hours behind of Hong Kong Island |
| Toronto, Canada | 4:39 pm | -13 | 13 hours behind of Hong Kong Island |
| Sao Paulo, Brazil | 6:39 pm | -11 | 11 hours behind of Hong Kong Island |
| London, United Kingdom | 9:39 pm | -8 | 8 hours behind of Hong Kong Island |
| Paris, France | 10:39 pm | -7 | 7 hours behind of Hong Kong Island |
| Berlin, Germany | 10:39 pm | -7 | 7 hours behind of Hong Kong Island |
| Johannesburg, South Africa | 11:39 pm | -6 | 6 hours behind of Hong Kong Island |
| Moscow, Russia | 12:39 am | -5 | 5 hours behind of Hong Kong Island |
| Dubai, United Arab Emirates | 1:39 am | -4 | 4 hours behind of Hong Kong Island |
| Delhi, India | 3:09 am | -2:30 | 2 hours 30 minutes behind of Hong Kong Island |
| Singapore, Singapore | 5:39 am | 0 | same time as Hong Kong Island |
| Hong Kong, China | 5:39 am | 0 | same time as Hong Kong Island |
| Tokyo, Japan | 6:39 am | +1 | 1 hour ahead of Hong Kong Island |
| Sydney, Australia | 8:39 am | +3 | 3 hours ahead of Hong Kong Island |
Best time to call Hong Kong Island
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 Hong Kong Island | Their local time |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | -13 | no shared hour | no shared hour |
| Los Angeles | -16 | 9:00 am to 10:00 am | 5:00 pm to 6:00 pm |
| London | -8 | 5:00 pm to 6:00 pm | 9:00 am to 10:00 am |
| Delhi | -2:30 | 11:30 am to 6:00 pm | 9:00 am to 3:30 pm |
| Sydney | +3 | 9:00 am to 3:00 pm | 12:00 pm to 6:00 pm |
Other cities in Hong Kong
We cover 25 cities in Hong Kong. These are the ones nearest to Hong Kong Island, with the time on their clocks right now.
| City | Region | Local time | Offset |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wan Chai | Wan Chai | 5:39 am | UTC+8 |
| Aberdeen | Southern District | 5:39 am | UTC+8 |
| Victoria | Central and Western | 5:39 am | UTC+8 |
| Kowloon | Hong Kong | 5:39 am | UTC+8 |
| Kowloon City Centre | Kowloon City | 5:39 am | UTC+8 |
| Kowloon City | Kowloon City | 5:39 am | UTC+8 |
| Sham Shui Po | Sham Shui Po District | 5:39 am | UTC+8 |
| Wong Tai Sin | Wong Tai Sin District | 5:39 am | UTC+8 |
| Tseung Kwan O | Sai Kung District | 5:39 am | UTC+8 |
| Kwai Chung | Kwai Tsing District | 5:39 am | UTC+8 |
| Tsing Yi Town | Kwai Tsing District | 5:39 am | UTC+8 |
| Sha Tin | Sha Tin | 5:39 am | UTC+8 |
| Tsuen Wan | Tsuen Wan | 5:39 am | UTC+8 |
| Ma On Shan | Sha Tin | 5:39 am | UTC+8 |
| New Territories | Hong Kong | 5:39 am | UTC+8 |
| Tai Po | Tai Po | 5:39 am | UTC+8 |
Cities on Asia/Hong_Kong time
26 of our cities keep Asia/Hong_Kong, so every one of them reads 5:39 am at this moment and changes its clocks on the same night as Hong Kong Island. Nearest first:
| City | Local time | From Hong Kong Island |
|---|---|---|
| Wan Chai, Hong Kong | 5:39 am | 2 km |
| Aberdeen, Hong Kong | 5:39 am | 4 km |
| Victoria, Hong Kong | 5:39 am | 5 km |
| Kowloon, Hong Kong | 5:39 am | 6 km |
| Hong Kong, China | 5:39 am | 6 km |
| Kowloon City Centre, Hong Kong | 5:39 am | 7 km |
| Kowloon City, Hong Kong | 5:39 am | 8 km |
| Sham Shui Po, Hong Kong | 5:39 am | 8 km |
| Wong Tai Sin, Hong Kong | 5:39 am | 10 km |
| Tseung Kwan O, Hong Kong | 5:39 am | 10 km |
| Kwai Chung, Hong Kong | 5:39 am | 13 km |
| Tsing Yi Town, Hong Kong | 5:39 am | 13 km |
| Sha Tin, Hong Kong | 5:39 am | 13 km |
| Tsuen Wan, Hong Kong | 5:39 am | 14 km |
| Ma On Shan, Hong Kong | 5:39 am | 17 km |
| New Territories, Hong Kong | 5:39 am | 19 km |
Moon phase over Hong Kong Island tonight
The moon is a waning crescent tonight, 27.2 days into its cycle and about 6% lit. The next full moon falls on November 24, 2026 at 10:53 pm Hong Kong time, and the next new moon on November 9, 2026 at 3:01 pm. Both are the same instant everywhere on Earth, printed here on the Hong Kong Island clock, which is why the calendar date can differ from the one a reader further east or west sees.
When the clocks change in Hong Kong Island
There is no clock change scheduled in Asia/Hong_Kong within the next 400 days, so Hong Kong Island stays at UTC+8 for the whole of that stretch.
That makes Hong Kong Island 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 Hong Kong Island is from other cities
Great-circle distance, computed from the coordinates rather than road mileage. The nearest city we cover to Hong Kong Island is Wan Chai, Hong Kong at 2 km, and the furthest is Tarija, Bolivia at 19,877 km, which is 99% of the way to being exactly opposite.
| City | km | miles | Direction | Their time |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wan Chai, Hong Kong | 2 | 1 | north west | 5:39 am |
| Aberdeen, Hong Kong | 4 | 2 | south west | 5:39 am |
| Victoria, Hong Kong | 5 | 3 | north west | 5:39 am |
| Kowloon, Hong Kong | 6 | 4 | north | 5:39 am |
| Hong Kong, China | 6 | 4 | north | 5:39 am |
| Kowloon City Centre, Hong Kong | 7 | 5 | north | 5:39 am |
| Kowloon City, Hong Kong | 8 | 5 | north | 5:39 am |
| Sham Shui Po, Hong Kong | 8 | 5 | north | 5:39 am |
| Wong Tai Sin, Hong Kong | 10 | 6 | north | 5:39 am |
| Tseung Kwan O, Hong Kong | 10 | 6 | north east | 5:39 am |
The antipode of Hong Kong Island
Dig straight through the centre of the Earth from Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong and you come out at 22.26 degrees south, 65.82 degrees west. That point is near Tarija, Bolivia. The nearest city in our catalogue to it is Tarija, Bolivia, 138 km away from the antipode itself, where the clock currently reads 5:39 pm on Friday.
The antipode is worked out by flipping the latitude across the equator and swinging the longitude a half turn: 22.26 degrees north becomes 22.26 degrees south, and 114.18 degrees east becomes 65.82 degrees west. Two thirds of the planet is ocean and the land is unevenly spread, so most antipodes are open water: Hong Kong Island 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 Hong Kong Island, because a half turn of longitude is a half turn of the day.
Sunrise and sunset in Hong Kong Island
Today the sun rises in Hong Kong Island at 6:30 am and sets at 5:43 pm, giving 11 hours 13 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 Hong Kong Island.
Sun and moon in Hong Kong Island today
The sun is up in Hong Kong Island for 11 hours 13 minutes today, from 6:30 am to 5:43 pm. The moon rises in Hong Kong Island at 4:29 am and sets at 4:12 pm. The next phase is the new moon on November 9, 2026. It is 5% lit at the moment, a waning crescent, thinning by about 4.5 percentage points a day.
| Sun | Time in Hong Kong Island |
|---|---|
| Astronomical dawn | 5:14 am |
| Nautical dawn | 5:40 am |
| Civil dawn | 6:07 am |
| Sunrise | 6:30 am |
| Solar noon | 12:07 pm |
| Sunset | 5:43 pm |
| Civil dusk | 6:06 pm |
| Nautical dusk | 6:33 pm |
| Astronomical dusk | 7:00 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 Hong Kong Island | Length |
|---|---|---|
| Morning blue hour | 6:07 am to 6:16 am | 0h 09m |
| Morning golden hour | 6:16 am to 7:02 am | 0h 45m |
| Evening golden hour | 5:12 pm to 5:57 pm | 0h 45m |
| Evening blue hour | 5:57 pm to 6:06 pm | 0h 09m |
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 Hong Kong Island |
|---|---|
| Moonrise | 4:29 am |
| Moonset | 4:12 pm |
| Phase | waning crescent, waning |
| Illumination | 5% of the disc lit |
| Moon age | 27.5 days since the new moon |
| Distance | 391,000 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: Hong Kong Island and four other places
Every hour of Saturday, November 7, 2026 in Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong, read across 4 other places. Columns are Hong Kong Island 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.
Change the places or the date
| Hong Kong Island 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hong Kong IslandHKT 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 AngelesPST UTC-8 | 8-1 | 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 |
| New YorkEST UTC-5 | 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 | 9 | 10 |
| LondonGMT UTC+0 | 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 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 |
| 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 Saturday, November 7, 2026 is inside 9 to 5 in all 5 places, so nothing is highlighted as a shared working hour. Hong Kong Island and Los Angeles are 16 hours apart, which is more than the eight hour working day leaves room for. The closest is 2 of 5: from 12:00 am in Hong Kong Island it is working hours in New York and London, but outside them in Hong Kong Island, Los Angeles and Delhi. A meeting across this set has to be early or late for somebody.
Prayer times in Hong Kong Island
Seven days from November 7, 2026, computed for Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong at 22.26 degrees north, 114.18 degrees east, on the clock of Asia/Hong_Kong. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Saturday November 7 | 5:14 am | 6:30 am | 12:07 pm | 3:20 pm | 5:43 pm | 6:55 pm |
| Sunday November 8 | 5:14 am | 6:31 am | 12:07 pm | 3:19 pm | 5:43 pm | 6:55 pm |
| Monday November 9 | 5:15 am | 6:32 am | 12:07 pm | 3:19 pm | 5:42 pm | 6:55 pm |
| Tuesday November 10 | 5:15 am | 6:32 am | 12:07 pm | 3:19 pm | 5:42 pm | 6:54 pm |
| Wednesday November 11 | 5:16 am | 6:33 am | 12:07 pm | 3:18 pm | 5:41 pm | 6:54 pm |
| Thursday November 12 | 5:16 am | 6:33 am | 12:07 pm | 3:18 pm | 5:41 pm | 6:54 pm |
| Friday November 13 | 5:17 am | 6:34 am | 12:07 pm | 3:18 pm | 5:41 pm | 6:53 pm |
Dhuhr is solar noon at Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong, 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 Hong Kong Island
From Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong the qibla is 285.2 degrees on a true compass, which is west-northwest, or 15.2 degrees south of due west. The Kaaba is 7,588 km away, 4,715 miles, measured over the surface of the Earth.
That figure is the initial bearing of the great circle from Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong 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 Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong 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 Hong Kong Island clock on your site
A live clock showing the current time in Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong, ready to paste into any page that accepts HTML. It reads Asia/Hong_Kong from the time zone database, so it stays right when Hong Kong Island changes its clocks, and it shows HKT to every visitor wherever they are reading from. It is a plain iframe: no account, no script to install, nothing to pay.
The box needs 183 pixels of height for these settings, which is what the code above sets, and the numbers show at full size from 305 pixels of width up. Narrower than that they scale down rather than wrapping, and turning a line off makes the box shorter. The code updates with either.
Hong Kong Island time now: common questions
- What time is it in Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong right now?
- 5:39 am on Saturday November 7, 2026. Hong Kong Island runs on HKT, UTC+8.
- What time zone is Hong Kong Island in?
- Asia/Hong_Kong, currently HKT at UTC+8. 26 of the cities on this site keep that zone.
- What is the UTC offset for Hong Kong Island?
- UTC+8 at this instant. It is UTC+8 all year round, with no seasonal change.
- Does Hong Kong Island observe daylight saving time?
- No. Hong Kong Island stays on UTC+8 for the whole year.
- How many hours ahead or behind is Hong Kong Island of New York?
- Hong Kong Island is 13 hours ahead of New York, where it is 4:39 pm right now.
- What time does the sun set in Hong Kong Island today?
- 5:43 pm, after a sunrise at 6:30 am and 11 hours 13 minutes of daylight.
- What is on the exact opposite side of the Earth from Hong Kong Island?
- 22.26 degrees south, 65.82 degrees west, near Tarija, Bolivia.
- When is the best time to call Hong Kong Island from London?
- Between 5:00 pm and 6:00 pm in Hong Kong Island, which is 9:00 am to 10:00 am in London.
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