Current time in Wan Chai, Hong Kong right now
It is 1:43 pm in Wan Chai, Hong Kong 🇭🇰 right now, on Saturday, November 7, 2026. The city keeps Asia/Hong_Kong, which is HKT at UTC+8, so Wan Chai is 8 hours ahead of UTC, where it is 5:43 am. The sun rose in Wan Chai at 6:30 am and sets at 5:43 pm, which is 11 hours 13 minutes of daylight.
What time is it in Wan Chai right now?
The time in Wan Chai, Hong Kong is 1:43 pm, 13:43 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.
Wan Chai sits at 22.28 degrees north and 114.17 degrees east, inside the tropics, north of the equator and 2,478 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 19 seconds of sun time, which is most of why solar noon here lands at 12:07 pm rather than on the stroke of twelve.
Wan Chai time zone and UTC offset
The IANA zone for Wan Chai, Hong Kong is Asia/Hong_Kong. Right now it is running at UTC+8 and the abbreviation in force is HKT. Wan Chai 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 Wan Chai ever needs a seasonal footnote.
Daylight hours in Wan Chai today
The sun rose in Wan Chai 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 Wan Chai, 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 Wan Chai |
|---|---|
| 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 Wan Chai, which works from the same coordinates.
Where Wan Chai 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 Wan Chai. It loads when you scroll to it, so it costs nothing to the rest of the page. Open Wan Chai on OpenStreetMap instead if you prefer.
Time difference between Wan Chai 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 Wan Chai.
| City | Local time | Gap | Relative to Wan Chai |
|---|---|---|---|
| Los Angeles, California | 9:43 pm | -16 | 16 hours behind of Wan Chai |
| Chicago, Illinois | 11:43 pm | -14 | 14 hours behind of Wan Chai |
| New York, New York | 12:43 am | -13 | 13 hours behind of Wan Chai |
| Toronto, Canada | 12:43 am | -13 | 13 hours behind of Wan Chai |
| Sao Paulo, Brazil | 2:43 am | -11 | 11 hours behind of Wan Chai |
| London, United Kingdom | 5:43 am | -8 | 8 hours behind of Wan Chai |
| Paris, France | 6:43 am | -7 | 7 hours behind of Wan Chai |
| Berlin, Germany | 6:43 am | -7 | 7 hours behind of Wan Chai |
| Johannesburg, South Africa | 7:43 am | -6 | 6 hours behind of Wan Chai |
| Moscow, Russia | 8:43 am | -5 | 5 hours behind of Wan Chai |
| Dubai, United Arab Emirates | 9:43 am | -4 | 4 hours behind of Wan Chai |
| Delhi, India | 11:13 am | -2:30 | 2 hours 30 minutes behind of Wan Chai |
| Singapore, Singapore | 1:43 pm | 0 | same time as Wan Chai |
| Hong Kong, China | 1:43 pm | 0 | same time as Wan Chai |
| Tokyo, Japan | 2:43 pm | +1 | 1 hour ahead of Wan Chai |
| Sydney, Australia | 4:43 pm | +3 | 3 hours ahead of Wan Chai |
Best time to call Wan Chai
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 Wan Chai | 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 Wan Chai, with the time on their clocks right now.
| City | Region | Local time | Offset |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hong Kong Island | Hong Kong | 1:43 pm | UTC+8 |
| Victoria | Central and Western | 1:43 pm | UTC+8 |
| Kowloon | Hong Kong | 1:43 pm | UTC+8 |
| Aberdeen | Southern District | 1:43 pm | UTC+8 |
| Sham Shui Po | Sham Shui Po District | 1:43 pm | UTC+8 |
| Kowloon City Centre | Kowloon City | 1:43 pm | UTC+8 |
| Kowloon City | Kowloon City | 1:43 pm | UTC+8 |
| Wong Tai Sin | Wong Tai Sin District | 1:43 pm | UTC+8 |
| Tseung Kwan O | Sai Kung District | 1:43 pm | UTC+8 |
| Kwai Chung | Kwai Tsing District | 1:43 pm | UTC+8 |
| Tsing Yi Town | Kwai Tsing District | 1:43 pm | UTC+8 |
| Sha Tin | Sha Tin | 1:43 pm | UTC+8 |
| Tsuen Wan | Tsuen Wan | 1:43 pm | UTC+8 |
| Ma On Shan | Sha Tin | 1:43 pm | UTC+8 |
| New Territories | Hong Kong | 1:43 pm | UTC+8 |
| Tai Po | Tai Po | 1:43 pm | UTC+8 |
Cities on Asia/Hong_Kong time
26 of our cities keep Asia/Hong_Kong, so every one of them reads 1:43 pm at this moment and changes its clocks on the same night as Wan Chai. Nearest first:
| City | Local time | From Wan Chai |
|---|---|---|
| Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong | 1:43 pm | 2 km |
| Victoria, Hong Kong | 1:43 pm | 3 km |
| Kowloon, Hong Kong | 1:43 pm | 4 km |
| Hong Kong, China | 1:43 pm | 4 km |
| Aberdeen, Hong Kong | 1:43 pm | 4 km |
| Sham Shui Po, Hong Kong | 1:43 pm | 6 km |
| Kowloon City Centre, Hong Kong | 1:43 pm | 6 km |
| Kowloon City, Hong Kong | 1:43 pm | 6 km |
| Wong Tai Sin, Hong Kong | 1:43 pm | 8 km |
| Tseung Kwan O, Hong Kong | 1:43 pm | 9 km |
| Kwai Chung, Hong Kong | 1:43 pm | 10 km |
| Tsing Yi Town, Hong Kong | 1:43 pm | 11 km |
| Sha Tin, Hong Kong | 1:43 pm | 11 km |
| Tsuen Wan, Hong Kong | 1:43 pm | 12 km |
| Ma On Shan, Hong Kong | 1:43 pm | 16 km |
| New Territories, Hong Kong | 1:43 pm | 17 km |
Moon phase over Wan Chai tonight
The moon is a waning crescent tonight, 27.6 days into its cycle and about 4% 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 Wan Chai clock, which is why the calendar date can differ from the one a reader further east or west sees.
When the clocks change in Wan Chai
There is no clock change scheduled in Asia/Hong_Kong within the next 400 days, so Wan Chai stays at UTC+8 for the whole of that stretch.
That makes Wan Chai 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 Wan Chai is from other cities
Great-circle distance, computed from the coordinates rather than road mileage. The nearest city we cover to Wan Chai is Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong at 2 km, and the furthest is Tarija, Bolivia at 19,875 km, which is 99% of the way to being exactly opposite.
| City | km | miles | Direction | Their time |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong | 2 | 1 | south east | 1:43 pm |
| Victoria, Hong Kong | 3 | 2 | west | 1:43 pm |
| Kowloon, Hong Kong | 4 | 3 | north | 1:43 pm |
| Hong Kong, China | 4 | 3 | north | 1:43 pm |
| Aberdeen, Hong Kong | 4 | 3 | south west | 1:43 pm |
| Sham Shui Po, Hong Kong | 6 | 3 | north | 1:43 pm |
| Kowloon City Centre, Hong Kong | 6 | 4 | north | 1:43 pm |
| Kowloon City, Hong Kong | 6 | 4 | north | 1:43 pm |
| Wong Tai Sin, Hong Kong | 8 | 5 | north | 1:43 pm |
| Tseung Kwan O, Hong Kong | 9 | 6 | north east | 1:43 pm |
The antipode of Wan Chai
Dig straight through the centre of the Earth from Wan Chai, Hong Kong and you come out at 22.28 degrees south, 65.83 degrees west. That point is near Tarija, Bolivia. The nearest city in our catalogue to it is Tarija, Bolivia, 140 km away from the antipode itself, where the clock currently reads 1:43 am on Saturday.
The antipode is worked out by flipping the latitude across the equator and swinging the longitude a half turn: 22.28 degrees north becomes 22.28 degrees south, and 114.17 degrees east becomes 65.83 degrees west. Two thirds of the planet is ocean and the land is unevenly spread, so most antipodes are open water: Wan Chai 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 Wan Chai, because a half turn of longitude is a half turn of the day.
Sunrise and sunset in Wan Chai
Today the sun rises in Wan Chai 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 Wan Chai.
Sun and moon in Wan Chai today
The sun is up in Wan Chai for 11 hours 13 minutes today, from 6:30 am to 5:43 pm. The moon rises in Wan Chai 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 Wan Chai |
|---|---|
| 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 Wan Chai | 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 Wan Chai |
|---|---|
| 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: Wan Chai and four other places
Every hour of Saturday, November 7, 2026 in Wan Chai, Hong Kong, read across 4 other places. Columns are Wan Chai 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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| Wan Chai 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wan ChaiHKT 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. Wan Chai 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 Wan Chai it is working hours in New York and London, but outside them in Wan Chai, Los Angeles and Delhi. A meeting across this set has to be early or late for somebody.
Prayer times in Wan Chai
Seven days from November 7, 2026, computed for Wan Chai, Hong Kong at 22.28 degrees north, 114.17 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 Wan Chai, 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 Wan Chai
From Wan Chai, 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 7,587 km away, 4,714 miles, measured over the surface of the Earth.
That figure is the initial bearing of the great circle from Wan Chai, 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 Wan Chai, 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 Wan Chai clock on your site
A live clock showing the current time in Wan Chai, 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 Wan Chai 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.
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Wan Chai time now: common questions
- What time is it in Wan Chai, Hong Kong right now?
- 1:43 pm on Saturday November 7, 2026. Wan Chai runs on HKT, UTC+8.
- What time zone is Wan Chai 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 Wan Chai?
- UTC+8 at this instant. It is UTC+8 all year round, with no seasonal change.
- Does Wan Chai observe daylight saving time?
- No. Wan Chai stays on UTC+8 for the whole year.
- How many hours ahead or behind is Wan Chai of New York?
- Wan Chai is 13 hours ahead of New York, where it is 12:43 am right now.
- What time does the sun set in Wan Chai 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 Wan Chai?
- 22.28 degrees south, 65.83 degrees west, near Tarija, Bolivia.
- When is the best time to call Wan Chai from London?
- Between 5:00 pm and 6:00 pm in Wan Chai, which is 9:00 am to 10:00 am in London.
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