PST to CST Asia
Quick answers
PST is 16 hours behind CST. PST uses GMT -8, and CST uses GMT +8 for this comparison.
For example, 4:00 am PST is 8:00 pm CST. Use the converter above to adjust the date or time and create a shareable meeting link.
Best meeting overlap: 4:30pm-5:30pm PST, which is 8:30am-9:30am CST (next day).
PST is a fixed UTC-8 standard-time offset. For current Pacific Time, compare PDT to CST-ASIA or PT to CST-ASIA.
Compare PST time with CST time, including current local time, UTC offsets, time difference, daylight saving changes, working hours, and shareable meeting times.
Time Difference
Pacific Standard Time is 16 hours behind China Standard Time
4:00 am04:00 in PST is 8:00 pm20:00 in CST
PST to CST call time
Best time for a conference call or a meeting is between 4:30pm-5:30pm in PST which corresponds to 8:30am-9:30am in CST (next day)
4:00 am04:00 Pacific Standard Time (PST). Offset UTC -8:00 hours
8:00 pm20:00 China Standard Time (CST). Offset UTC +8:00 hours
4:00 am04:00 PST / 8:00 pm20:00 CST
| PST | CST |
|---|---|
| 12am (midnight) | 4pm |
| 1am | 5pm |
| 2am | 6pm |
| 3am | 7pm |
| 4am | 8pm |
| 5am | 9pm |
| 6am | 10pm |
| 7am | 11pm |
| 8am | 12am (midnight) |
| 9am | 1am |
| 10am | 2am |
| 11am | 3am |
| 12pm (noon) | 4am |
| 1pm | 5am |
| 2pm | 6am |
| 3pm | 7am |
| 4pm | 8am |
| 5pm | 9am |
| 6pm | 10am |
| 7pm | 11am |
| 8pm | 12pm (noon) |
| 9pm | 1pm |
| 10pm | 2pm |
| 11pm | 3pm |
| 00:00 | 16:00 |
| 01:00 | 17:00 |
| 02:00 | 18:00 |
| 03:00 | 19:00 |
| 04:00 | 20:00 |
| 05:00 | 21:00 |
| 06:00 | 22:00 |
| 07:00 | 23:00 |
| 08:00 | 00:00 |
| 09:00 | 01:00 |
| 10:00 | 02:00 |
| 11:00 | 03:00 |
| 12:00 | 04:00 |
| 13:00 | 05:00 |
| 14:00 | 06:00 |
| 15:00 | 07:00 |
| 16:00 | 08:00 |
| 17:00 | 09:00 |
| 18:00 | 10:00 |
| 19:00 | 11:00 |
| 20:00 | 12:00 |
| 21:00 | 13:00 |
| 22:00 | 14:00 |
| 23:00 | 15:00 |
Pacific Standard Time
Offset: PST is 8 hours behind Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) and is used in North America
Countries using this time zone: Canada, Mexico, United States
Principal Cities: The largest city in the PST time zone is Los Angeles in the United States, with about 3.793 million people. Other major cities in this time zone include Vancouver, Tijuana, San Diego, San Jose.
French: HNP - Heure Normale du Pacifique
Spanish: PT - Tiempo del Pacífico, PT - Zona Noroeste
Daylight Saving: This is a standard time zone. During summer, some places set clocks forward one hour for daylight saving time and observe Pacific Daylight Time (PDT).
Start: Pacific Standard Time (PST) started on Sunday, November 2, 2025 at 2:00 am local time and clocks were set one hour back to Sunday, November 2, 2025, 1:00 am. Standard time starts annually on the first Sunday of November.
End: Pacific Standard Time (PST) ends on Sunday, March 8, 2026 at 2:00 am local time and clocks are set one hour forward to Sunday, March 8, 2026, 3:00 am local daylight time instead. Standard time ends annually on the second Sunday of March.
PST representations, usage and related time zones
- -08 - basic short
- -0800 - basic
- -08:00 - extended
- -0800 - sign character (-) followed by a four digit time providing hours (08) and minutes (00) of the offset. Indicates an offset of eight hours to the west of the zero meridian.
- Uniform - Military abbreviation for PST
- U - short form of 'Uniform'
- America/Ensenada
- America/Los_Angeles
- America/Santa_Isabel
- America/Tijuana
- America/Vancouver
- Canada/Pacific
- Mexico/BajaNorte
- PST8PDT
- US/Pacific
- Pacific Standard Time - UTC -8
- Pitcairn Standard Time - UTC -8
- AKDT - Alaska Daylight Time
- PST - Pacific Standard Time
- PT - Pacific Time
- PST - Pitcairn Standard Time
- U - Uniform Time Zone
China Standard Time
Offset: CST is 8 hours ahead Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) and is used in Asia
Countries using this time zone: China, Macau, Taiwan
Principal Cities: The largest city in the CST time zone is Shanghai in China, with about 14.609 million people. Other major cities in this time zone include Zhumadian, Taipei, Beijing, Nanchong.
Daylight Saving: Clocks in China Standard Time (CST) do not change for daylight saving time, so CST stays the same throughout the year. Other time zones may set clocks forward in summer and back in winter.
CST representations, usage and related time zones
- +08 - basic short
- +0800 - basic
- +08:00 - extended
- +0800 - sign character (+) followed by a four digit time providing hours (08) and minutes (00) of the offset. Indicates an offset of eight hours to the east of the zero meridian.
- Hotel - Military abbreviation for CST
- H - short form of 'Hotel'
- Asia/Chongqing
- Asia/Chungking
- Asia/Harbin
- Asia/Macao
- Asia/Macau
- Asia/Shanghai
- Asia/Taipei
- PRC
- ROC
- Central Standard Time - UTC -6
- China Standard Time - UTC +8
- Cuba Standard Time - UTC -5
- ACT - ASEAN Common Time
- AWST - Australian Western Standard Time
- BNT - Brunei Darussalam Time
- CAST - Casey Time
- CHOT - Choibalsan Time
- CST - China Standard Time
- H - Hotel Time Zone
- HKT - Hong Kong Time
- HOVST - Hovd Summer Time
- IRKT - Irkutsk Time
- KRAST - Krasnoyarsk Summer Time
- MYT - Malaysia Time
- PHT - Philippine Time
- SGT - Singapore Time
- ULAT - Ulaanbaatar Time
- WITA - Central Indonesian Time