CST to CAT Converter
Time Difference
Central Standard Time is 8 hours behind of Central Africa Time
So 5:00 am05:00 in CST is 1:00 pm13:00 in CAT
5:00 am05:00 Central Standard Time (CST). Offset UTC -6:00 hours
1:00 pm13:00 Central Africa Time (CAT). Offset UTC +2:00 hours
5:00 am05:00 CST / 1:00 pm13:00 CAT
CST | CAT |
---|---|
12am (midnight) | 8am |
1am | 9am |
2am | 10am |
3am | 11am |
4am | 12pm (noon) |
5am | 1pm |
6am | 2pm |
7am | 3pm |
8am | 4pm |
9am | 5pm |
10am | 6pm |
11am | 7pm |
12pm (noon) | 8pm |
1pm | 9pm |
2pm | 10pm |
3pm | 11pm |
4pm | 12am (midnight) |
5pm | 1am |
6pm | 2am |
7pm | 3am |
8pm | 4am |
9pm | 5am |
10pm | 6am |
11pm | 7am |
0:00 | 8:00 |
1:00 | 9:00 |
2:00 | 10:00 |
3:00 | 11:00 |
4:00 | 12:00 |
5:00 | 13:00 |
6:00 | 14:00 |
7:00 | 15:00 |
8:00 | 16:00 |
9:00 | 17:00 |
10:00 | 18:00 |
11:00 | 19:00 |
12:00 | 20:00 |
13:00 | 21:00 |
14:00 | 22:00 |
15:00 | 23:00 |
16:00 | 0:00 |
17:00 | 1:00 |
18:00 | 2:00 |
19:00 | 3:00 |
20:00 | 4:00 |
21:00 | 5:00 |
22:00 | 6:00 |
23:00 | 7:00 |
Central Standard Time
Offset: CST is 6 hours behind Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) and is used in North America
Countries: It is used in following countries: Belize, Canada, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, El Salvador, United States
Principal Cities: The largest city in the CST timezone is Mexico City from Mexico with population about 12.294 million people. Other major cities in the area are Chicago, Houston, Iztapalapa, Ecatepec
Daylight Saving: This is a standard timezone, however during summer some places switch clocks for one hour forward when daylight saving comes into effect and observe Central Daylight Time (CDT).
Start: CST starts annually on the same date and time. and clocks were set one hour back on Sunday, November 3, 2019, at 2:00 (2:00 am) local time.
End: CST ends annually on the same date and time. and clocks are set one hour forward on Sunday, March 8, 2020, at 2:00 (2:00 am) local time.
French: HNC - Heure Normale du Centre
Spanish: CT - Tiempo Central Estándar, CT - Zona Centro

CST representations, usage and related time zones
- -06 - basic short
- -0600 - basic
- -06:00 - extended
- -0600 - sign character (-) followed by a four digit time providing hours (06) and minutes (00) of the offset. Indicates six hour and zero minutes time differences to the west of the zero meridian.
- Sierra - Military abbreviation for CST
- S - short form of 'Sierra'
- America/Bahia_Banderas
- America/Belize
- America/Chicago
- America/Costa_Rica
- America/El_Salvador
- America/Guatemala
- America/Indiana/Knox
- America/Indiana/Tell_City
- America/Knox_IN
- America/Managua
- America/Matamoros
- America/Menominee
- America/Merida
- America/Mexico_City
- America/Monterrey
- America/North_Dakota/Beulah
- America/North_Dakota/Center
- America/North_Dakota/New_Salem
- America/Rainy_River
- America/Rankin_Inlet
- America/Regina
- America/Resolute
- America/Swift_Current
- America/Tegucigalpa
- America/Winnipeg
- CST6CDT
- Canada/Central
- Canada/Saskatchewan
- Mexico/General
- US/Central
- US/Indiana-Starke
CST Abbreviation: Several time zones share CST abbreviation and it could refer to these time zones
- Central Standard Time - UTC -6
- China Standard Time - UTC +8
- Cuba Standard Time - UTC -5
Time zones with the GMT -6 offset:
- CST - Central Standard Time
- CT - Central Time
- MDT - Mountain Daylight Time
- EAST - Easter Island Standard Time
- GALT - Galapagos Time
- S - Sierra Time Zone
- -06 -
Central Africa Time
Offset: CAT is 2 hours ahead Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) and is used in Africa
Countries: It is used in following countries: Burundi, Botswana, Congo (Dem. Rep.), Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Rwanda, Sudan, Zambia, Zimbabwe
Principal Cities: The largest city in the CAT timezone is Khartoum from Sudan with population about 1.975 million people. Other major cities in the area are Harare, Lubumbashi, Lusaka, Omdurman
Daylight Saving: Central Africa Time (CAT) is not adjusted for daylight saving therefore CAT 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, Central Africa Time remains the same

CAT 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 two hour and zero minutes time differences to the east of the zero meridian.
- Bravo - Military abbreviation for CAT
- B - short form of 'Bravo'
- Africa/Blantyre
- Africa/Bujumbura
- Africa/Gaborone
- Africa/Harare
- Africa/Khartoum
- Africa/Kigali
- Africa/Lubumbashi
- Africa/Lusaka
- Africa/Maputo
- Africa/Windhoek
Time zones with the GMT +2 offset:
- 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