What time is it in Suzhou, Anhui, China
Suzhou in Anhui keeps China Standard Time, UTC+8, with no daylight-saving jump. Local time, sunrise, sunset, and weather on this page are for that northern Anhui city.
Suzhou, China
Monday, 7 September 2026
UTC+8 · Asia/Shanghai
Local time in Suzhou
UTC+8 · no daylight saving time
The sun today
Sunrise 5:51 AM Solar noon 12:12 PM Sunset 6:32 PM Daylight 12 h 42 min Night 11 h 18 min Civil twilight 5:26 AM – 6:58 PM
Weather in Suzhou right now
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Weather data by Open-Meteo, updated every 30 minutes.
Suzhou and its neighbours
Postal codes
- 215000
- 234000
Postal codes come from the free GeoNames dataset. Where a code is listed with a distance, it belongs to a nearby settlement — GeoNames spells that name differently from ours.
Largest cities in Anhui
Other places named Suzhou
Same time zone — Asia/Shanghai
Nearby places
- Lujiacun — 2.9 km
- Yangmiaocun — 3.8 km
- Wulixu — 4.1 km
- Shuangqincun — 4.2 km
- Yangxuzicun — 4.4 km
- Bianhezhen — 5.4 km
What time is it in Suzhou
This Suzhou is a prefecture-level city in northern Anhui, on the Huaibei Plain, not the garden city in Jiangsu. The Chinese name is 宿州, not 苏州. It does not keep an Anhui hour or a plain hour of its own. Official clocks follow the national standard: eight hours ahead of UTC, matching Hefei, Beijing, and the better-known Suzhou at every instant. The sun is not in the same place. The wall clock is.
Computers still file mainland civil time as Asia/Shanghai. That label is a database habit. It does not send an Anhui meeting to the Bund, and it does not send it to the gardens on the Grand Canal. If a form offers Beijing, Shanghai, or “China,” pick it: you are choosing the national hour. Leave daylight saving off.
Northern Anhui sits farther from the East China Sea than Jiangsu’s Suzhou. Twelve on the wall is still twelve. The sun’s highest point is a sky event for this plain. Do not “correct” a calendar invite toward the other Suzhou’s sunrise. Correct it toward UTC+8, then read this city’s sun table if daylight itself is the point.
The other Suzhou, the same hour
Search results and airport codes mix the two cities. Clocks do not. A train toward Xuzhou, Huaibei, or Bengbu does not require a watch change. It requires travel time. If a booking site shows a sunrise copied from Jiangsu, discard it. That minute belongs to another pin.
Civil time: China Standard Time, UTC+8. This city: Suzhou, Anhui (宿州), Huaibei Plain. Not this city: Suzhou, Jiangsu (苏州), Yangtze Delta. Sun and weather: these coordinates, not the garden city’s. Because this Suzhou lies farther north than the Jiangsu namesake, the yearly swing in day length is larger. Winter mornings come later by the wall clock. Summer evenings stretch further. Those are latitude. They are not a reason to treat the two Suzhous as different time zones. They are a reason to stop copying the wrong sunrise.
If the gardens answered, you have the wrong Suzhou. This one is 宿州, and it still keeps UTC+8.
Plain light in northern Anhui
Sunrise and sunset on this page are calculated for Anhui’s Suzhou on the selected date. Haze, dust, and summer rain can hide the disk long after the listed instant. The table of first light assumes a flat, empty horizon. A built-up street on a flat plain is still not that line, and a cloud bank is not a clock error.
The weather reading here is present conditions over this city. It is not a climate essay about the Yangtze Delta, and it is not a promise about tomorrow afternoon. A 07:00 start in a clear winter week and a 07:00 start in a humid summer week are the same civil time and very different mornings. Indoor schedules follow UTC+8. Errands outdoors should follow the light and the plain’s weather together.
A standing call at 09:00 here stays at 09:00 here. A counterpart in London or Chicago may still move their clocks. If the Anhui slot suddenly feels early, their spring-forward is the usual culprit. Write “09:00 Suzhou, Anhui (UTC+8)” on mixed invites. The province is not decoration. Without it, someone will convert against the wrong city and still think the offset was the problem.
Questions and answers
- What time zone is Suzhou, Anhui in?
- The mainland’s UTC+8 hour. Northern Anhui does not keep a separate stamp.
- Is this the same Suzhou as the one in Jiangsu?
- No. Same romanization, different characters, different place. The clock numerals match; the sunrise does not.
- Does northern Anhui use daylight saving?
- No. Suzhou, Anhui, does not spring forward or fall back.