UTC+08:00

Principal cities: Shanghai, Beijing, Guangzhou, Hangzhou, Suzhou, Xiamen, Shenzhen, Taipei, Taichung, Kaohsiung, Hong Kong, Macau, Kuala Lumpur, Singapore, Manila, Quezon City, Makassar, Denpasar, Manado, Perth, Irkutsk, Ulaanbaatar, Bandar Seri Begawan

• Russia – Irkutsk Time^[1]
  • Far Eastern Federal District
    • Buryatia
  • Siberian Federal District
    • Irkutsk Oblast

• Mainland China – China Standard Time
• Hong Kong – Hong Kong Time (Hong Kong Standard Time)
• Macau – Macau Time (Macau Standard Time)
• Taiwan – National Standard Time
• Mongolia – Time in Mongolia^[2]
  • Eastern part, including Dornod, Sükhbaatar, Ulaanbaatar

• Brunei – Brunei Darussalam Standard Time
• Indonesia – Central Indonesia Time^[3][4]
  • Parts of Kalimantan:
    • East Kalimantan
    • North Kalimantan
    • South Kalimantan
  • Lesser Sunda Islands
    • Bali
    • East Nusa Tenggara
    • West Nusa Tenggara
  • All provinces in Sulawesi
• Malaysia – Malaysia Standard Time
• Philippines – Philippine Standard Time
• Singapore – Singapore Standard Time

• Australia
  • Western Australia (except Eucla and nearby areas, including Caiguna, Cocklebiddy, Madura and Mundrabilla, unofficially observes UTC+08:45^[5])

• Some bases in Antarctica. See also Time in Antarctica.
• Australia
  • Casey Station

This section is only partly updated for longitudes using other time zones. This concerns areas within 112°30′ E to 127°30′ E longitude.

• Parts of Russia, including very easternmost parts of Krasnoyarsk Krai, where UTC+07:00 is used, and Zabaykalsky Krai and most of western Sakha Republic where UTC+09:00 is used.
• Parts of Indonesia, including eastern East Java with its capital city Surabaya, most of Central Kalimantan with its capital city Palangka Raya, and eastern part of West Kalimantan, where UTC+07:00 is used, and some of the western islands in the province of Maluku and North Maluku where UTC+09:00 is used.
• East Timor, where UTC+09:00 is used.
• Parts of Okinawa Prefecture, Japan, including Sakishima Islands with its westernmost point Yonaguni, western parts of Kerama Islands, and some islands of the western Okinawa Islands, where UTC+09:00 is used.
• The western parts of Korea, including the North Korean capital city, Pyongyang and South Korean capital city, Seoul, where UTC+09:00 is used.

• Parts of northeast China including the eastern half of Heilongjiang Province and the Yanbian Korean Autonomous PrefectureinJilin Province.
• Easternmost parts of Western Australia.

• Singapore
• Malaysia:
  • Western part of SarawakinMalaysian Borneo.
  • Peninsular Malaysia, where the nation's capital Kuala Lumpur is located.
• Many parts of central China including:
  • Hainan
  • Guangxi
  • Yunnan
  • Guizhou
  • Sichuan
  • Chongqing
  • Shaanxi
  • Ningxia
  • Gansu
  • Western two-third of Hunan
  • Western half of:
    • Hubei
    • Shanxi
    • Inner Mongolia, including its capital Hohhot.
  • western third of:
    • Guangdong
    • Henan
• Most of central Mongolia including the capital Ulaanbaatar.
• In Russia, most of:
  • Irkutsk Oblast
  • Buryatia

• Parts of China
  • Most of Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (although many locals set their clocks at UTC+06:00 even if it is officially UTC+08:00, in any case work and shop schedules are two hours after Shanghai and Beijing).^[6] See also Time in China.
  • most of Tibet Autonomous Region
• Western Mongolia.

• Parts of western China including western Xinjiang province (Kashgar) (although most locals observe UTC+06:00 even if it is officially UTC+08:00).

The southern half of Vietnam (Republic of Vietnam) was formerly part of this time zone prior to the national reunification on 30 April 1975, making it one hour ahead of North Vietnam. After 1975, the whole country came under the North Vietnamese time zone, UTC+07:00.

According to Presidential Decree 41/1987, Indonesia's ex-province of Timor Timur used this time zone with neighboring East Nusa Tenggara and other provinces in Lesser Sunda Islands, parts of Kalimantan and Sulawesi^[7] until independence as East Timor, which the country changed to UTC+09:00 as the official time zone.

• Time in Australia
• Time in Cambodia
• Time in Laos
• Time in Russia
• Time in Vietnam
• Xinjiang Time

•   Media related to UTC+08:00 at Wikimedia Commons
• History of Hong Kong Time Service Archived 2009-05-22 at the Wayback Machine