🇨🇳 青島

A port city on the Yellow Sea coast of eastern China near 36 degrees north latitude, Qingdao has a population of about 7.2 million. It keeps China Standard Time, the nationwide UTC+8 offset, and observes no daylight saving, so its clocks remain eight hours ahead of Coordinated Universal Time throughout the year. Positioned in the Northern Hemisphere on the eastern seaboard, the city shares its official time with the entire mainland under China's single zone. Because the offset never shifts with the seasons, the gap between Qingdao's time and that of other regions stays constant across the calendar.