Tuesday · August · 11 · 2026
“The sun never repents of the good he does.”
— Benjamin Franklin
Sun & daylight
The sun rises at 06:00 and sets at 18:59 in Hong Kong today, giving 12h 59m of daylight. Solar noon is at 12:29.
06:00
Sunrise
12:29
Noon
18:59
Sunset
Midnight
00:29
Sunrise
06:00
Solar noon
12:29
Sunset
18:59
Solar midnight
00:29
Daylight
12h 59m
Daylight runs about 13h 29m around the June solstice and 10h 46m around the December solstice.
Daylight saving time
Hong Kong does not observe daylight saving time. Clocks stay on UTC+8 all year, so the local time never shifts with the seasons.
Public holidays
Hong Kong has no public holidays in August 2026.
Architecture
Hong Kong builds on a strip of flat ground between water and mountain, so the city goes up and its ground level becomes a system of decks and walkways. The towers here are engineering arguments before they are anything else.
Completed 2021
Herzog & de Meuron
A museum of visual culture on the harbour at West Kowloon. Herzog & de Meuron set a long horizontal podium of galleries under a slender slab, forming an inverted T that faces the water. The rail tunnel running beneath the site is left exposed inside as a raw concrete room. The east face is a screen of ceramic tiles that carries images across the harbour after dark.
Completed 2018
Herzog & de Meuron
The former Central Police Station, magistracy and prison, converted into an arts complex. Herzog & de Meuron restored sixteen historic buildings and added two new volumes clad in cast aluminium blocks laid like masonry. The additions sit tight against the old walls and take their height from them rather than stepping back. Keeping the prison yards as public squares is what lets the site still read as a compound.
Completed 1998
Norman Foster
The passenger terminal on the island built for the new airport. Norman Foster covered it with a continuous vaulted roof of shallow shells, aligned so the whole plan can be read from any point beneath it. Passengers move in one direction on one level, which is why a section this simple could be repeated across the building. It was built together with the island, the rail line and the bridges as a single programme.
Completed 1990
I. M. Pei
A bank tower on the slope above Central. I. M. Pei braced it as a set of triangular prisms that transfer their loads to four corner columns, so the tower needs far less steel than its height suggests. Each prism stops at a different level, which produces the stepped profile. The structure does the composing, and the elevations only report it.
Completed 1985
Norman Foster
The bank's headquarters on the harbour front in Central. Norman Foster hung the floors from eight masts, which left the ground open as a public plaza and the interior free of a core. Services and stairs are pushed to the ends in bolted modules, and a mirrored scoop reflects daylight down through the atrium. It was assembled from parts made in several countries, and the building shows every joint.