Timetable en Chine: time difference and opening hours

Time difference en Chine

Seven time zones separate France and China. In winter, count 7 hours more and 6 hours in summer. Although the country is divided into 4 different time zones, the time is the same throughout the country.

Opening hours en Chine

To see / To do en Chine

Museums are generally open from 9am to 5pm and closed on Mondays. The Tian'anmen Gate opens at 8:30 am (search your bag at the entrance). For the Great Wall, from Beijing, access in winter from 8am to 6pm, in summer from 6:30am to 7pm.

Enjoying yourself en Chine

In China, breakfast is eaten around 6:30-7:00 am, lunch around 11:00-11:30 am and dinner often starts before 7:00 pm. Many restaurants are closed after 8-8:30 pm.

Take a break en Chine

In the city, bars and small street restaurants welcome you throughout the day for a drink, a snack, a more substantial dish. And it is one of the pleasures of a stay in China to be able to make a greedy and/or refreshing stop, without fuss and at a very low price.

(To) please yourself en Chine

There are no regulatory hours. So the businesses do a little bit as they want. In general, they are open 7 days a week, from about 9-10am until 8-10:30pm. The banks are open from 9:00-9:30 am to 4:00-5:00 pm, with a break between noon and 1:00 pm

Get out en Chine

The Chinese are hard workers. They get up early and go to bed early, and the notion of weekend is not really found in China; it is rather called a day of rest (over a period of seven days). So it takes big parties to go out late at night ! In hotels for Western tourists, there is often nightly entertainment. However, the favorite evening entertainment of the wealthy Chinese is karaoke, which is in full development. In addition, there are ballets, acrobatic shows, and traditional theater of very high quality in the large halls.