HKT to GMT to CEST Time Converter
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HKT to GMT
HKT is 8 hours ahead of GMT year-round.
Working hours of 9:00 am to 5:00 pm in HKT correspond to 1:00 am to 9:00 am in GMT.
HKT to CEST
For most of the year, HKT is 6 hours ahead of CEST. During seasonal clock changes, HKT is 7 hours ahead of CET.
For most of the year, working hours of 9:00 am to 5:00 pm in HKT correspond to 3:00 am to 11:00 am in CEST. During seasonal clock changes, working hours of 9:00 am to 5:00 pm in HKT correspond to 2:00 am to 10:00 am in CET.
Compare HKT time with GMT and CEST time, including current local time, UTC offsets, time difference, daylight saving changes, working hours, and shareable meeting times.
Time Difference
Hong Kong Time is 8 hours ahead of Greenwich Mean Time and 7 hours ahead of Central European Time
8:00 pm20:00 in HKT is 12:00 pm12:00 in GMT and is 1:00 pm13:00 in CET
HKT to GMT call time
Best time for a conference call or a meeting is between 4:30pm-5:30pm in HKT which corresponds to 8:30am-9:30am in GMT
HKT to CET call time
Best time for a conference call or a meeting is between 4pm-5pm in HKT which corresponds to 9am-10am in CET
8:00 pm20:00 Hong Kong Time (HKT). Offset UTC +8:00 hours
12:00 pm12:00 Greenwich Mean Time (GMT). Offset UTC 0:00 hours
1:00 pm13:00 Central European Time (CET). Offset UTC +1:00 hour
8:00 pm20:00 HKT / 12:00 pm12:00 GMT / 1:00 pm13:00 CET
| HKT | GMT | CET |
|---|---|---|
| 12am (midnight) | 4pm | 5pm |
| 1am | 5pm | 6pm |
| 2am | 6pm | 7pm |
| 3am | 7pm | 8pm |
| 4am | 8pm | 9pm |
| 5am | 9pm | 10pm |
| 6am | 10pm | 11pm |
| 7am | 11pm | 12am (midnight) |
| 8am | 12am (midnight) | 1am |
| 9am | 1am | 2am |
| 10am | 2am | 3am |
| 11am | 3am | 4am |
| 12pm (noon) | 4am | 5am |
| 1pm | 5am | 6am |
| 2pm | 6am | 7am |
| 3pm | 7am | 8am |
| 4pm | 8am | 9am |
| 5pm | 9am | 10am |
| 6pm | 10am | 11am |
| 7pm | 11am | 12pm (noon) |
| 8pm | 12pm (noon) | 1pm |
| 9pm | 1pm | 2pm |
| 10pm | 2pm | 3pm |
| 11pm | 3pm | 4pm |
| 00:00 | 16:00 | 17:00 |
| 01:00 | 17:00 | 18:00 |
| 02:00 | 18:00 | 19:00 |
| 03:00 | 19:00 | 20:00 |
| 04:00 | 20:00 | 21:00 |
| 05:00 | 21:00 | 22:00 |
| 06:00 | 22:00 | 23:00 |
| 07:00 | 23:00 | 00:00 |
| 08:00 | 00:00 | 01:00 |
| 09:00 | 01:00 | 02:00 |
| 10:00 | 02:00 | 03:00 |
| 11:00 | 03:00 | 04:00 |
| 12:00 | 04:00 | 05:00 |
| 13:00 | 05:00 | 06:00 |
| 14:00 | 06:00 | 07:00 |
| 15:00 | 07:00 | 08:00 |
| 16:00 | 08:00 | 09:00 |
| 17:00 | 09:00 | 10:00 |
| 18:00 | 10:00 | 11:00 |
| 19:00 | 11:00 | 12:00 |
| 20:00 | 12:00 | 13:00 |
| 21:00 | 13:00 | 14:00 |
| 22:00 | 14:00 | 15:00 |
| 23:00 | 15:00 | 16:00 |
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
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, Britain (UK), Guernsey, Ghana, Greenland, Gambia, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Ireland, Isle of Man, Iceland, Jersey, Liberia, Mali, Mauritania, St Helena, Sierra Leone, Senegal, Sao Tome & Principe, Togo
Principal Cities: The largest city in the GMT time zone is London in United Kingdom, with about 7.557 million people. Other major cities in this time zone include Abidjan, Dakar, Grand Dakar, Accra.
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
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, but some places set clocks back one hour during winter and observe Central European Time (CET).
End: Central European Summer Time (CEST) ended on Sunday, October 26, 2025 at 3:00 am local time and clocks were set one hour back to Sunday, October 26, 2025, 2:00 am local standard time instead. Daylight saving ends annually on the last Sunday of October
Start: Central European Summer Time (CEST) starts on Sunday, March 29, 2026 at 2:00 am local time and clocks are set one hour forward to Sunday, March 29, 2026, 3:00 am. Daylight saving starts annually on the last Sunday of March
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