CST Asia to HKT Converter
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8:00 pm20:00 CST (UTC+8), Oct 28, 2026 = 8:00 pm20:00 HKT (UTC+8), Oct 28, 2026
CST and HKT have the same local time.
CST and HKT examples
These examples always use CST (UTC+8) and HKT (UTC+8). They stay the same when you change the date or time above. The selected conversion may differ when daylight saving time applies.
CST and HKT have the same local time.
How the time difference changes
CST Asia and HKT have the same time year-round.
Working hours of 9:00 am to 6:00 pm in CST Asia correspond to 9:00 am to 6:00 pm in HKT.Working hours of 09:00 to 18:00 in CST Asia correspond to 09:00 to 18:00 in HKT.
Compare CST time with HKT time, including current local time, UTC offsets, time difference, daylight saving changes, working hours, and shareable meeting times.
Time Difference
China Standard Time and Hong Kong Time have the same local time.
8:00 pm20:00 in CST is 8:00 pm20:00 in HKT
CST to HKT call time
Best time for a conference call or a meeting is between 9am-6pm09:00-18:00 in CST which corresponds to 9am-6pm09:00-18:00 in HKT
8:00 pm20:00 China Standard Time (CST). Offset UTC +8:00 hours
8:00 pm20:00 Hong Kong Time (HKT). Offset UTC +8:00 hours
8:00 pm20:00 CST / 8:00 pm20:00 HKT
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China Standard Time
Offset: CST is 8 hours ahead of Greenwich Mean Time (GMT).
Countries using this time zone: China, Macao, Taiwan
Principal Cities: The largest city in the CST time zone is Shanghai in China, with about 24.875 million people. Other major cities in this time zone include Beijing, Shenzhen, Guangzhou, Chengdu.
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; see upcoming clock changes worldwide.
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
Hong Kong Time
Offset: HKT is 8 hours ahead of Greenwich Mean Time (GMT).
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 7.396 million people.
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; see upcoming clock changes worldwide.
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