CST to P Converter
Central Time is on daylight saving time: CDT (UTC−5) until Sun, Nov 1.
Mexico City and Saskatchewan stay on CST (UTC−6).
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Quick answers
Selected conversion
7:00 am07:00 CDT (UTC-5), Oct 22, 2026 = 9:00 am09:00 P (UTC-3), Oct 22, 2026
CDT is 2 hours behind P.
CST (US winter time, UTC-6) and P examples
These examples always use CST (UTC-6) and P (UTC-3). They stay the same when you change the date or time above. The selected conversion may differ when daylight saving time applies.
CST is 3 hours behind P.
CST is US Central winter time (early November to mid-March). The rest of the year Chicago uses CDT (UTC-5), one hour later. For Central Time that follows daylight saving time, use CT to P. For daylight-time examples, use CDT to P.
How the time difference changes
For most of the year, CDT is 2 hours behind P. From Nov 1, 2026 to Mar 14, 2027, CST is 3 hours behind P.
For most of the year, working hours of 9:00 am to 6:00 pm in CDT correspond to 11:00 am to 8:00 pm in P. At other times of the year, working hours of 9:00 am to 6:00 pm in CST correspond to 12:00 pm to 9:00 pm in P.For most of the year, working hours of 09:00 to 18:00 in CDT correspond to 11:00 to 20:00 in P. At other times of the year, working hours of 09:00 to 18:00 in CST correspond to 12:00 to 21:00 in P.
Compare CST time with P time, including current local time, UTC offsets, time difference, daylight saving changes, working hours, and shareable meeting times.
Time Difference
Central Daylight Time is 2 hours behind Papa Time Zone.
7:00 am07:00 in CDT is 9:00 am09:00 in P
CDT to P call time
Best time for a conference call or a meeting is between 9am-4pm09:00-16:00 in CDT which corresponds to 11am-6pm11:00-18:00 in P
7:00 am07:00 Central Daylight Time (CDT). Offset UTC -5:00 hours
9:00 am09:00 Papa Time Zone (P). Offset UTC -3:00 hours
7:00 am07:00 CDT / 9:00 am09:00 P
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Central Standard Time
Offset: CST is 6 hours behind Greenwich Mean Time (GMT).
Countries using this time zone: Belize, Canada, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, United States
Principal Cities: The largest city in the CST time zone is Mexico City in Mexico, with about 12.294 million people. Other major cities in this time zone include Chicago, Houston, Puebla, Santiago de Querétaro.
French: HNC - Heure Normale du Centre
Spanish: CT - Tiempo Central Estándar, CT - Zona Centro
Today the lighter areas are on UTC−5 (Central Daylight Time).
Daylight Saving: This is a standard time zone. During summer, some places set clocks forward one hour for daylight saving time and observe Central Daylight Time (CDT).
End: Central Standard Time (CST) ended on Sunday, March 8, 2026 at 2:00 am02:00 local time and clocks were set one hour forward to Sunday, March 8, 2026, 3:00 am03:00 local daylight time instead. Standard time ends annually on the second Sunday of March.
Start: Central Standard Time (CST) starts on Sunday, November 1, 2026 at 2:00 am02:00 local time and clocks are set one hour back to Sunday, November 1, 2026, 1:00 am01:00. Standard time starts annually on the first Sunday of November.
See USA daylight saving time and upcoming clock changes worldwide.
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 an offset of six hours 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/Chihuahua
- 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/Ojinaga
- 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
- Central Standard Time - UTC -6
- China Standard Time - UTC +8
- Cuba Standard Time - UTC -5
- CST - Central Standard Time
- CT - Central Time
- MDT - Mountain Daylight Time
- EAST - Easter Island Standard Time
- GALT - Galapagos Time
- S - Sierra Time Zone
Papa Time Zone
Offset: P is 3 hours behind Greenwich Mean Time (GMT).
Countries using this time zone: Antarctica, Argentina, Bermuda, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Falkland Islands, French Guiana, Greenland, Paraguay, Saint Pierre and Miquelon, Suriname, Uruguay
Principal Cities: The largest city in the P time zone is São Paulo in Brazil, with about 12.4 million people. Other major cities in this time zone include Rio de Janeiro, Santiago, Buenos Aires, Belo Horizonte.
Daylight Saving: Some places on Papa Time Zone (P) keep the same time all year, while others use P for only part of the year and change their clocks for daylight saving time; see upcoming clock changes worldwide.
Today some of the lighter areas are on UTC−2.
P representations, usage and related time zones
- -03 - basic short
- -0300 - basic
- -03:00 - extended
- -0300 - sign character (-) followed by a four digit time providing hours (03) and minutes (00) of the offset. Indicates an offset of three hours to the west of the zero meridian.
- Papa - Military abbreviation for P
- P - short form of 'Papa'
- ADT - Atlantic Daylight Time
- PMT - Pierre & Miquelon Standard Time
- PMST - Pierre & Miquelon Standard Time
- AMST - Amazon Summer Time
- ART - Argentina Time
- BRT - Brasilia Time
- CLST - Chile Summer Time
- FKST - Falkland Islands Summer Time
- FKT - Falkland Islands Time
- GFT - French Guiana Time
- P - Papa Time Zone
- PYST - Paraguay Summer Time
- PYT - Paraguay Time
- SRT - Suriname Time
- UYT - Uruguay Time