CEST to GMT to HKT Time Converter
Compare CEST time with GMT and HKT time, including current local time, UTC offsets, time difference, daylight saving changes, working hours, and shareable meeting times.
Time Difference
Central European Summer Time is 2 hours ahead of Greenwich Mean Time and 6 hours behind Hong Kong Time
8:00 am08:00 in CEST is 6:00 am06:00 in GMT and is 2:00 pm14:00 in HKT
CEST to GMT call time
Best time for a conference call or a meeting is between 11am-5pm in CEST which corresponds to 9am-3pm in GMT
CEST to HKT call time
Best time for a conference call or a meeting is between 9am-11am in CEST which corresponds to 3pm-5pm in HKT
8:00 am08:00 Central European Summer Time (CEST). Offset UTC +2:00 hours
6:00 am06:00 Greenwich Mean Time (GMT). Offset UTC 0:00 hours
2:00 pm14:00 Hong Kong Time (HKT). Offset UTC +8:00 hours
8:00 am08:00 CEST / 6:00 am06:00 GMT / 2:00 pm14:00 HKT
| CEST | GMT | HKT |
|---|---|---|
| 12am (midnight) | 10pm | 6am |
| 1am | 11pm | 7am |
| 2am | 12am (midnight) | 8am |
| 3am | 1am | 9am |
| 4am | 2am | 10am |
| 5am | 3am | 11am |
| 6am | 4am | 12pm (noon) |
| 7am | 5am | 1pm |
| 8am | 6am | 2pm |
| 9am | 7am | 3pm |
| 10am | 8am | 4pm |
| 11am | 9am | 5pm |
| 12pm (noon) | 10am | 6pm |
| 1pm | 11am | 7pm |
| 2pm | 12pm (noon) | 8pm |
| 3pm | 1pm | 9pm |
| 4pm | 2pm | 10pm |
| 5pm | 3pm | 11pm |
| 6pm | 4pm | 12am (midnight) |
| 7pm | 5pm | 1am |
| 8pm | 6pm | 2am |
| 9pm | 7pm | 3am |
| 10pm | 8pm | 4am |
| 11pm | 9pm | 5am |
| 00:00 | 22:00 | 06:00 |
| 01:00 | 23:00 | 07:00 |
| 02:00 | 00:00 | 08:00 |
| 03:00 | 01:00 | 09:00 |
| 04:00 | 02:00 | 10:00 |
| 05:00 | 03:00 | 11:00 |
| 06:00 | 04:00 | 12:00 |
| 07:00 | 05:00 | 13:00 |
| 08:00 | 06:00 | 14:00 |
| 09:00 | 07:00 | 15:00 |
| 10:00 | 08:00 | 16:00 |
| 11:00 | 09:00 | 17:00 |
| 12:00 | 10:00 | 18:00 |
| 13:00 | 11:00 | 19:00 |
| 14:00 | 12:00 | 20:00 |
| 15:00 | 13:00 | 21:00 |
| 16:00 | 14:00 | 22:00 |
| 17:00 | 15:00 | 23:00 |
| 18:00 | 16:00 | 00:00 |
| 19:00 | 17:00 | 01:00 |
| 20:00 | 18:00 | 02:00 |
| 21:00 | 19:00 | 03:00 |
| 22:00 | 20:00 | 04:00 |
| 23:00 | 21:00 | 05:00 |
Central European Summer Time
Offset: CEST is 2 hours ahead Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) and is used in Europe
Countries using this time zone: Andorra, Albania, Austria, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Belgium, Switzerland, Czech Republic, Germany, Denmark, Spain, France, Gibraltar, Croatia, Hungary, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Monaco, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Malta, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Serbia, Sweden, Slovenia, Svalbard & Jan Mayen, Slovakia, San Marino, Vatican City
Principal Cities: The largest city in the CEST time zone is Berlin in Germany, with about 3.426 million people. Other major cities in this time zone include Madrid, Rome, Paris, Budapest.
German: MESZ - Mitteleuropäische Sommerzeit
Daylight Saving: Central European Summer Time (CEST) is a daylight saving/summer time zone. During winter, some places set clocks back one hour and observe Central European Time (CET).
Start: Central European Summer Time (CEST) started on Sunday, March 27, 2022 at 2:00 am local time and clocks were set one hour forward to Sunday, March 27, 2022, 3:00 am. Daylight saving starts annually on the last Sunday of March
End: Central European Summer Time (CEST) ends on Sunday, October 30, 2022 at 3:00 am local time and clocks are set one hour back to Sunday, October 30, 2022, 2:00 am local standard time instead. Daylight saving ends annually on the last Sunday of October
CEST representations, usage and related time zones
- +02 - basic short
- +0200 - basic
- +02:00 - extended
- +0200 - sign character (+) followed by a four digit time providing hours (02) and minutes (00) of the offset. Indicates an offset of two hours to the east of the zero meridian.
- Bravo - Military abbreviation for CEST
- B - short form of 'Bravo'
- Africa/Ceuta
- Arctic/Longyearbyen
- Atlantic/Jan_Mayen
- CET
- Europe/Amsterdam
- Europe/Andorra
- Europe/Belgrade
- Europe/Berlin
- Europe/Bratislava
- Europe/Brussels
- Europe/Budapest
- Europe/Busingen
- Europe/Copenhagen
- Europe/Gibraltar
- Europe/Ljubljana
- Europe/Luxembourg
- Europe/Madrid
- Europe/Malta
- Europe/Monaco
- Europe/Oslo
- Europe/Paris
- Europe/Podgorica
- Europe/Prague
- Europe/Rome
- Europe/San_Marino
- Europe/Sarajevo
- Europe/Skopje
- Europe/Stockholm
- Europe/Tirane
- Europe/Vaduz
- Europe/Vatican
- Europe/Vienna
- Europe/Warsaw
- Europe/Zagreb
- Europe/Zurich
- MET
- Poland
- CEST - Central European Summer Time
- EET - Eastern European Time
- MESZ - Mitteleuropäische Sommerzeit
- B - Bravo Time Zone
- CAT - Central Africa Time
- IST - Israel Standard Time
- SAST - South Africa Standard Time
- WAST - West Africa Summer Time
Greenwich Mean Time
Offset: GMT is 0 hours ahead Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) and is used in Europe
Countries using this time zone: Burkina Faso, Côte d'Ivoire, Ghana, Greenland, Gambia, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Iceland, Liberia, Mali, Mauritania, St Helena, Sierra Leone, Senegal, Sao Tome & Principe, Togo
Principal Cities: The largest city in the GMT time zone is Abidjan in Ivory Coast, with about 3.677 million people. Other major cities in this time zone include Dakar, Grand Dakar, Accra, Camayenne.
Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) originally referred to the mean solar time at the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, London. It is now often used to refer to Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) when this is viewed as a time zone, and in casual use for the most parts it is the same. In military GMT is known as Zulu time.Greenwich Mean Time was the same as Universal Time (UT), until the introduction of UTC in 1972 a standard astronomical concept used in many technical fields.
GMT representations, usage and related time zones
- Z - is the zone designator for the zero UTC/GMT offset, also known as 'Zulu' time
- +00 - basic short
- +0000 - basic
- +00:00 - extended
- +0000 - sign character (+) followed by a four digit time providing hours (00) and minutes (00) of the offset. Indicates the zero UTC/GMT offset.
- Zulu - Military abbreviation for GMT
- Z - short form of 'Zulu'
- Africa/Abidjan
- Africa/Accra
- Africa/Bamako
- Africa/Banjul
- Africa/Bissau
- Africa/Conakry
- Africa/Dakar
- Africa/Freetown
- Africa/Lome
- Africa/Monrovia
- Africa/Nouakchott
- Africa/Ouagadougou
- Africa/Sao_Tome
- Africa/Timbuktu
- America/Danmarkshavn
- Atlantic/Reykjavik
- Atlantic/St_Helena
- Eire
- Etc/GMT
- Etc/GMT+0
- Etc/GMT-0
- Etc/GMT0
- Etc/Greenwich
- Europe/Belfast
- Europe/Dublin
- Europe/Guernsey
- Europe/Isle_of_Man
- Europe/Jersey
- Europe/London
- GB
- GB-Eire
- GMT
- GMT+0
- GMT-0
- GMT0
- Greenwich
- Iceland
- EGST - Eastern Greenland Summer Time
- GMT - Greenwich Mean Time
- WET - Western European Time
- AZOST - Azores Summer Time
- UTC - Universal Time Coordinated
- WT - Western Sahara Standard Time
- Z - Zulu Time Zone
Hong Kong Time
Offset: HKT is 8 hours ahead Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) and is used in Asia
Countries using this time zone: Hong Kong
Principal Cities: The largest city in the HKT time zone is Hong Kong in Hong Kong, with about 7.013 million people. Other major cities in this time zone include Kowloon, Tsuen Wan, Yuen Long Kau Hui, Sha Tin.
Daylight Saving: Clocks in Hong Kong Time (HKT) do not change for daylight saving time, so HKT stays the same throughout the year. Other time zones may set clocks forward in summer and back in winter.
HKT 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 HKT
- H - short form of 'Hotel'
- Asia/Hong_Kong
- Hongkong
- 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