Travel is often the most vivid entertainment in our life, filled with gray everyday life and a domestic routine. Beautiful and fascinating places on our planet is enough. But some of them have attracted millions of tourists every year for decades. They include Hong Kong. This is a special administrative region of China, which is famous not only as the leading world and Asian financial center, but also as a popular tourist "Mecca". The fact is that the region, located on the Kowloon peninsula and about 300 islands, is washed by the waters of the South China Sea. However, since this region is located far from Russia, it is natural that time zones differ. Many potential tourists wonder what time is in Hong Kong. This is what will be discussed.
Time in Hong Kong
As is known, for convenience, our planet is conditionally divided into 24 administrative time zones, which geographically practically coincide with geographical ones. To date, the time is set according to the worldwide coordinated time, briefly UTC. Hong Kong itself is geographically located at 21⁰ north latitude and 115⁰ east longitude. This means that the region belongs to the Chinese standard time. This is the time zone called UTC + 8. Since UTC + 0 is the West European time typical for Ireland, Iceland, Great Britain, Portugal and other countries, their time difference with Hong Kong is 8 hours. That is, this time zone differs from UTC + 0 by 8 hours in the big direction. This means that at midnight (00:00) the local time of Hong Kong will commemorate the morning - 8:00.
By the way, in one time zone with Hong Kong, in addition to the capital of China, Beijing , neighboring, Tibet, Hanoi, Fuzhou, Guangzhou, Changsha.
The time difference between Hong Kong and Moscow
In general, this special administrative region of the People's Republic of China from the capital of the Russian Federation is located in more than 7 thousand km, more precisely 7151 km. It is clear that the time difference between Moscow and Hong Kong is inevitable. The golden-domed capital is in the Moscow time zone. Since 2014, this time zone is UTC + 3. By simple calculations it is easy to find out that the difference in their time is 5 hours. That is, it means that when Moscow is midnight, Hong Kong reigns earlier in the morning - 5:00. And during the year this difference remains, since there is no transition to summer / winter time either in Moscow or in Hong Kong.