Time Difference Between Chicago and Macao, China

Chicago is 13 hours behind of Macao, China. Live local times, working-hour overlap and a 24-hour meeting suitability table, computed from the IANA time zone database in your browser.

Chicago · United States
02:39
Thu, October 8, 2026
UTC-5
Macao, China · China
15:39
Thu, October 8, 2026
UTC+8
Chicago is 13 hours behind of Macao, China.

Best time to meet

There is no overlap between a normal 09:00–18:00 working day in Chicago and one in Macao, China. Any live meeting will ask one side to take the call outside working hours. For a recurring slot, use an async written update or rotate a recording instead of rotating the inconvenience.

Next 24 hours

Scored against a 09:00–18:00 weekday working day in both cities. Updates live.

ChicagoMacao, ChinaSuitability
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Chicago working hours converted to Macao, China

Chicago timeMacao, China time
09:0022:00
10:0023:00
12:0001:00
14:0003:00
16:0005:00
18:0007:00

Based on a 09:00–18:00 working day and today's UTC offsets (UTC-5 and UTC+8).

Frequently asked questions

What is the time difference between Chicago and Macao, China?

Chicago is 13 hours behind of Macao, China: UTC-5 versus UTC+8. Both figures include any daylight saving currently in force.

What is the best time to call from Chicago to Macao, China?

There is no hour that is comfortable for both. If the meeting is unavoidable, the least-bad options are the edges of each side's day — late morning in Chicago or early morning in Macao, China — and the burden should be explicit rather than assumed.

Is there any way to make Chicago–Macao, China meetings work?

Not through scheduling. With no overlap, the workable options are async written handoffs, recorded updates, or splitting coverage into two regional pods so that each pod works its own daylight hours.

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