Cook Islands
CIST
HKT
Hong Kong Time
GMT +8

Time Difference

CIST (Cook Islands Standard Time) is 18 hours behind Hong Kong Time
7:00 am07:00 in Avarua, Cook Islands is 1:00 am01:00 in HKT

Avarua to HKT call time
Best time for a conference call or a meeting is between 4am-6am in Avarua which corresponds to 10pm-12pm in HKT

7:00 am07:00 CIST (Cook Islands Standard Time) (Avarua, Cook Islands). Offset UTC -10:00 hours
1:00 am01:00 Hong Kong Time (HKT). Offset UTC +8:00 hours

7:00 am07:00 Avarua, Cook Islands / 1:00 am01:00 HKT

Avarua, Cook Islands HKT
12am (midnight) 6pm
1am 7pm
2am 8pm
3am 9pm
4am 10pm
5am 11pm
6am 12am (midnight)
7am 1am
8am 2am
9am 3am
10am 4am
11am 5am
12pm (noon) 6am
1pm 7am
2pm 8am
3pm 9am
4pm 10am
5pm 11am
6pm 12pm (noon)
7pm 1pm
8pm 2pm
9pm 3pm
10pm 4pm
11pm 5pm
0:00 18:00
1:00 19:00
2:00 20:00
3:00 21:00
4:00 22:00
5:00 23:00
6:00 0:00
7:00 1:00
8:00 2:00
9:00 3:00
10:00 4:00
11:00 5:00
12:00 6:00
13:00 7:00
14:00 8:00
15:00 9:00
16:00 10:00
17:00 11:00
18:00 12:00
19:00 13:00
20:00 14:00
21:00 15:00
22:00 16:00
23:00 17:00

Avarua Information

Time Zone

Abbreviation / Name
CIST - Cook Islands Standard Time
CKT - Cook Island Time
UTC / GMT Offset
-10:00 hours during Cook Islands Standard Time, currently in use.
-10:00 hours during Cook Island Time.
Daylight Saving Time Change
0:00 hours - DST is NOT in use
Daylight Saving Time Starts
Also called Spring Forward or Summer Time.
Daylight Saving Time Ends
Also called Fall Back or switch to Winter Time.

Avarua Facts

Country
Cook Islands
Alternative Names
Avaroua, Avarua, Avaruo, Avarúa, RAR, a wa lu a, abalua, abarua, avarua, avaruva, avharu'a, awarwa, awarya, xa wa raw, Αβαρούα, Аваруа, Ավարուա, אוורואה, آواروآ, آواریا, अव्हारुआ, அவாருவா, อะวารัว, ཨ་ཝ་རུ་ཨ།, ავარუა, アバルア, 阿瓦鲁阿, 아바루아
Population
13,373
Currency
Dollar (NZD)
Geographic Coordinates
21° 12' S Latitude / 159° 46' W Longitude
International Dialing Code
+682

Hong Kong Time

Offset: HKT is 8 hours ahead Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) and is used in Asia

Countries: It is used in following countries: Hong Kong

Principal Cities: The largest city in the HKT timezone is Hong Kong from Hong Kong with population about 7.013 million people. Other major cities in the area are Kowloon, Tsuen Wan, Yuen Long Kau Hui, Sha Tin

Daylight Saving: Hong Kong Time (HKT) is not adjusted for daylight saving therefore HKT remains the same through out the year. This means, unlike some time zones where the clock is set forward by one hour every summer and backward by one hour during winter to adjust for daylight saving, Hong Kong Time remains the same

HKT Time Zone Geo Map
HKT timezone map

HKT representations, usage and related time zones

W3C/ISO-8601: International standard covering representation and exchange of dates and time-related data
  • +08 - basic short
  • +0800 - basic
  • +08:00 - extended
Email/RFC-2822: Internet Message Format Date Standard, typically used for timestamps in email headers
  • +0800 - sign character (+) followed by a four digit time providing hours (08) and minutes (00) of the offset. Indicates eight hour and zero minutes time differences to the east of the zero meridian.
Military/NATO: Used by the U.S. military, Chinese military and others
  • Hotel - Military abbreviation for HKT
  • H - short form of 'Hotel'
IANA/Olson: Reflects HKT time zone boundaries defined by political bodies, primarily intended for use with computer programs and operating systems
  • Asia/Hong_Kong
  • Hongkong
Time zones with the GMT +8 offset:
  • 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