Live current time in Taiwan (Taipei) which follows Taiwan Standard Time, UTC+8, without Daylight Saving Time.
Welcome to Easy Converters’ “Taiwan Time Now” page. Here you’ll find the **live, atomic-synchronised local time for every city in Taiwan – from Taipei and Taichung to Kaohsiung and Taitung**. The clock above refreshes continuously, giving you millisecond-accurate Taiwan Standard Time (TST), also called China Standard Time (CST) in many software libraries.
Asia/TaipeiEasy Converters pulls time from NTP pools that reference the **Bureau of Standards, Metrology and Inspection (BSMI)** and other UTC laboratories, guaranteeing sub-second accuracy. BSMI maintains Taiwan’s legal time scale, broadcasting it via radio, fibre links, and satellite to telecoms, stock exchanges and air-traffic networks :contentReference[oaicite:1]{index=1}.
Taiwan lies roughly between 118° E and 123° E longitude—so a +8-hour offset places solar noon close to 12 pm for most of the island. UTC+8 also aligns Taiwan with its largest trading partners—mainland China, Hong Kong, Singapore, Malaysia and Western Australia—simplifying everything from cargo manifests to live video conferences :contentReference[oaicite:2]{index=2}.
| City / Zone | Offset vs. Taiwan |
|---|---|
| Tokyo (JST) | Same time (UTC+9 - UTC+8 = +1 h; but Japan is UTC+9 → Taiwan is 1 h behind) |
| Beijing / Hong Kong (CST) | Same time (UTC+8) |
| Bangkok / Jakarta (ICT) | −1 hour (UTC+7) |
| New Delhi (IST) | −2 ½ hours (UTC+5:30) |
| London (BST/GMT) | −7 or −8 hours (season-dependent) |
| New York (EDT/EST) | −12 or −13 hours (season-dependent) |
The **Bureau of Standards, Metrology and Inspection (BSMI)** publishes legal time bulletins, while the National Communications Commission (NCC) disseminates it via telecom networks. Banks, airports and power utilities must calibrate their systems to BSMI’s master clock under national law :contentReference[oaicite:5]{index=5}.
Taiwan hosts TSMC, MediaTek and ASE. Chip fabs run on nanosecond-precision schedules for ultraviolet lithography. A single millisecond drift can force multi-hour recalibrations. All event logs and production batches therefore stamp UTC+8.
The **Taiwan Stock Exchange (TWSE)** opens 9 AM – 1 30 PM TST. High-frequency trading desks in New York or London depend on precise crossover windows (e.g., 9 AM TST = 9 PM EDT the prior evening) for ADR hedging.
The Ports of Kaohsiung and Keelung handle 15 million + TEU annually. Container dispatch, customs clearance and inter-island ferries all use a unified UTC+8 to avoid paperwork mismatches.
Taoyuan (TPE) and Songshan (TSA) airports list departures exclusively in TST. Mis-reading DST offsets is a common cause of missed flights—our clock removes that risk.
Lunar-New-Year flash sales and esports tournaments (LoL PCS, Hearthstone) time their drops at 8 PM TST for maximum pan-Asian reach.
✔️ Set your backend to Asia/Taipei (IANA).
✔️ Disable DST flags.
✔️ Cron tasks: e.g. backup at 0 3 * * * Taipei Time.
✔️ Logs: store UTC in database, display TST via offset.
This avoids daylight anomalies and leverages the fact Taiwan hasn’t changed its clock since 1979.
Taiwan shares UTC+8 with **mainland China, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Malaysia, Brunei, the Philippines and Western Australia**. This “East-8” belt represents nearly 2 billion people, making UTC+8 one of the most commercially pivotal offsets on the planet :contentReference[oaicite:6]{index=6}.
<iframe src="https://easy-tables.com/widgets/taiwan-clock" width="300" height="60" frameborder="0"></iframe>Head over to our Time Calculator and pick “Taiwan Standard Time (UTC +8)” to generate meeting slots, flight connections and marketing schedules effortlessly.
No legislative agenda exists. Surveys show public preference for a single, stable zone, and energy-saving gains are marginal in equatorial latitudes. :contentReference[oaicite:7]{index=7}
Microsoft and some IANA listings historically group UTC+8 as CST. Taiwan authorities prefer “Taiwan Standard Time.” Both share the same offset.
Remember: during U.S. Daylight months, LA is UTC−7 so Taipei is **15 hours ahead**; in winter LA is UTC−8, Taipei is **16 hours ahead**.
Clocks fell back one hour at 00:00 on 1 October 1979 – the final DST change recorded by timeanddate.com :contentReference[oaicite:8]{index=8}.
Whether you’re shipping PCBs from Hsinchu, booking a sunrise Alishan tour, or launching a global e-commerce drop, Taiwan’s rock-steady time zone prevents scheduling snags and coding headaches. Bookmark “Taiwan Time Now”, embed our live widget, and let Easy Converters keep your world running on one of Asia’s most reliable clocks.
The official Taiwan Standard Time (TST) is managed by BSMI through the National Standard Time & Frequency Laboratory, which sources atomic clocks synchronized with the International Bureau of Weights and Measures (BIPM). These caesium clocks maintain legal time, broadcasting via NTP, radio, and satellite links—ensuring TST remains accurate to better than one millisecond globally :contentReference[oaicite:1]{index=1}.
Since 2020, BSMI has implemented upgrades to optical frequency standards similar to KRISS and NIST. These next-gen atomic clocks operate with accuracy up to 2×10–16—equivalent to losing just one second over billions of years :contentReference[oaicite:2]{index=2}. This places Taiwan among the most precisely tracked time zones worldwide.
This historical stabilization ensures TST is mappable and predictable for all digital, legal, or archival use cases.
Software developers and system engineers must:
Taiwan shares UTC+8 with China, Hong Kong, Macau, Malaysia, Singapore, the Philippines, Brunei, and Western Australia—forming the “East‑8 Corridor” of nearly 2 billion people :contentReference[oaicite:5]{index=5}. This alignment boosts trade efficiency, cross-border digital collaboration, and mass media scheduling across Asia.
Whether it’s sunrise tours in Alishan, hot-air balloons at dawn, or night-market schedules, all local events rely on stable UTC+8 timing. On the coding side, content creators drop 8 PM TST livestreams to maximize pan-Asian audiences.
No. BSMI and public opinion affirm that DST yields minimal benefit near the equator, and its removal in 1979 has offered consistency for all digital and civic infrastructure :contentReference[oaicite:6]{index=6}.
Most platforms categorize UTC+8 as CST, which includes both China and Taiwan; however, “Asia/Taipei” ensures correct TST naming and avoids ambiguity.
Remember: Taipei is:
No. While other nations have abolished DST, Taiwan has remained on its single time zone without seasonal changes since 1979 :contentReference[oaicite:7]{index=7}.
<iframe src="https://easy-tables.com/widgets/taiwan-clock" width="300" height="60" frameborder="0"></iframe>Use the Time Calculator to schedule cross-zone flights, financial events, team stand-ups, or global marketing drops—someone always needs accurate Taipei time.