KST to Beijing, China to EST (2024)

FAQs

How far ahead is Beijing from EST? ›

Eastern Standard Time is 13 hours behind Beijing.

Property prices have been increasing steadily over the past decade, and foreigners will find that both buying and renting accommodation in Beijing can cost a huge amount of money. A one bed-room apartment can cost you a rental fee between US $600 to $1,000 per month.

Though China is almost as wide as the continental United States, the whole country is officially in just one time zone — Beijing time. So when it's 7 a.m. in the Forbidden City, it's also officially 7 a.m. 2,000 miles to the west in Urumqi, the capital of the Xinjiang region — even if the stars are still out there.

United States uses nine standard time zones from east to west. That means Beijing is 13 hours ahead of than Washington, New York, Boston, Atlanta; 14 hours ahead of Chicago; 16 hours ahead of San Francisco, Los Angeles, Seattle; 18 hours ahead of Hawaii, etc. Canada uses six primary time zones.

Time zone info for China

The time in China is 13 hours ahead of the time in New York when New York is on standard time, and 12 hours ahead of the time in New York when New York is on daylight saving time. China has not had daylight saving time since 1991. The IANA time zone identifier for China is Asia/Shanghai.

China has one time zone. It is officially called China Standard Time (CST). It is 8 hours ahead of Coordinated Universal Time (UTC+08:00). There is no daylight saving time.

Due to their geographical locations, both are within the UTC+08:00 time zone, which is the same as the national standard, Beijing time.

In 2022, the average annual wage of employees in Beijing municipality in China amounted to approximately 178.5 thousand yuan. The average nominal wage more than doubled over the last decade.

How much does a meal cost in Beijing? ›

On average, a basic meal at a local restaurant may cost around 30 to 60 Chinese Yuan (CNY) per person, while a mid-range restaurant could cost around 100 to 200 CNY per person. Fine dining establishments or international restaurants may have higher prices, with meals ranging from 200 to 500+ CNY per person.

In China, the average monthly salary is 29,300 Yuan (Chinese Yuan), equating to USD 4,214 (US dollars) per month according to the exchange rate in May 2023 (according to Salary Explorer). Note: Renminbi (abbreviated RMB) is the official currency of China.

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Encyclopedia Britannica gives the third slot to China (9,600,013 km²) and places the United States in fourth. However, other sources, such as the United Nations and the CIA World Factbook, display a larger area for the U.S. and rank it above China.

Many corners of China were still, for all intents and purpose, separate countries under the de facto control of regional governments. As one of his efforts to unify China, Mao placed the entire country under a single time zone: Beijing Time, he called it, after his capital city. Even Mao couldn't control the sun.

Beijing Standard Time is calculated and released from the National Time Service Centre in Shaanxi Province, which is geographically almost the centre of China. It sits eight hours ahead of GMT and was implemented throughout China in 1949 after Mao Zedong decreed that it would aid 'national unity'.

Beijing is 12 hours ahead of New York.

However, the standard times used in Chinese Mainland, Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan Province are the same, for they are all in the same time zone (UTC+8), 8 hours ahead of the Universal Time Coordinated.