HKT to GMT to CEST Time Converter
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8:00 am08:00 HKT (UTC+8), Mar 28, 2022 = 12:00 am00:00 GMT (UTC+0), Mar 28, 2022 = 2:00 am02:00 CEST (UTC+2), Mar 28, 2022
HKT is 8 hours ahead of GMT. HKT is 6 hours ahead of CEST.
How the time difference changes
HKT to GMT
HKT is 8 hours ahead of GMT year-round.
Working hours of 9:00 am to 6:00 pm in HKT correspond to 1:00 am to 10:00 am in GMT.Working hours of 09:00 to 18:00 in HKT correspond to 01:00 to 10:00 in GMT.
HKT to CEST
For most of the year, HKT is 6 hours ahead of CEST. From Oct 25, 2026 to Mar 28, 2027, HKT is 7 hours ahead of CET.
For most of the year, working hours of 9:00 am to 6:00 pm in HKT correspond to 3:00 am to 12:00 pm in CEST. At other times of the year, working hours of 9:00 am to 6:00 pm in HKT correspond to 2:00 am to 11:00 am in CET.For most of the year, working hours of 09:00 to 18:00 in HKT correspond to 03:00 to 12:00 in CEST. At other times of the year, working hours of 09:00 to 18:00 in HKT correspond to 02:00 to 11:00 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. Hong Kong Time is 6 hours ahead of Central European Summer Time.
8:00 am08:00 in HKT is 12:00 am00:00 in GMT and is 2:00 am02:00 in CEST
HKT to GMT call time
Best time for a conference call or a meeting is between 5pm-6pm17:00-18:00 in HKT which corresponds to 9am-10am09:00-10:00 in GMT
HKT to CEST call time
Best time for a conference call or a meeting is between 3pm-6pm15:00-18:00 in HKT which corresponds to 9am-12pm09:00-12:00 in CEST
8:00 am08:00 Hong Kong Time (HKT). Offset UTC +8:00 hours
12:00 am00:00 Greenwich Mean Time (GMT). Offset UTC 0:00 hours
2:00 am02:00 Central European Summer Time (CEST). Offset UTC +2:00 hours
8:00 am08:00 HKT / 12:00 am00:00 GMT / 2:00 am02:00 CEST
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| HKT | GMT | CEST |
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| 4:00pm previous day | 6:00pm previous day | |
| 5:00pm previous day | 7:00pm previous day | |
| 6:00pm previous day | 8:00pm previous day | |
| 7:00pm previous day | 9:00pm previous day | |
| 8:00pm previous day | 10:00pm previous day | |
| 9:00pm previous day | 11:00pm previous day | |
| 10:00pm previous day | 12:00am | |
| 11:00pm previous day | 1:00am | |
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| 3:00am | 5:00am | |
| 4:00am | 6:00am | |
| 5:00am | 7:00am | |
| 6:00am | 8:00am | |
| 7:00am | 9:00am | |
| 8:00am | 10:00am | |
| 9:00am | 11:00am | |
| 10:00am | 12:00pm | |
| 11:00am | 1:00pm | |
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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
Greenwich Mean Time
Offset: GMT is the same as Greenwich Mean Time (GMT).
Countries using this time zone: Antarctica, Burkina Faso, Gambia, Ghana, Greenland, Guernsey, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Iceland, Ireland, Isle of Man, Ivory Coast, Jersey, Liberia, Mali, Mauritania, Morocco, Saint Helena, São Tomé and Príncipe, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Togo, United Kingdom, Western Sahara
Principal Cities: The largest city in the GMT time zone is London in the United Kingdom, with about 8.962 million people. Other major cities in this time zone include Abidjan, Bamako, Casablanca, Dakar.
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 the two are the same. In the military, GMT is known as Zulu time. Greenwich Mean Time was the same as Universal Time (UT), a standard astronomical concept used in many technical fields, until the introduction of UTC in 1972.
On March 28, 2022 the lighter areas are on UTC+1 (British Summer Time, Irish Standard Time).
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 - Coordinated Universal Time
- WT - Western Sahara Standard Time
- Z - Zulu Time Zone
Central European Summer Time
Offset: CEST is 2 hours ahead of Greenwich Mean Time (GMT).
Countries using this time zone: Albania, Andorra, Austria, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Czechia, Denmark, France, Germany, Gibraltar, Hungary, Italy, Kosovo, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Malta, Monaco, Montenegro, Netherlands, North Macedonia, Norway, Poland, San Marino, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Svalbard and Jan Mayen, Sweden, Switzerland, 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, Hamburg.
German: MESZ - Mitteleuropäische Sommerzeit
On March 28, 2022 all shaded areas are on CEST.
Daylight Saving: Central European Summer Time (CEST) is a daylight saving/summer time zone. During winter, some places set clocks back one hour and observe Central European Time (CET).
Start: Central European Summer Time (CEST) started on Sunday, March 27, 2022 at 2:00 am02:00 local time and clocks were set one hour forward to Sunday, March 27, 2022, 3:00 am03:00. Daylight saving starts annually on the last Sunday of March.
End: Central European Summer Time (CEST) ends on Sunday, October 30, 2022 at 3:00 am03:00 local time and clocks are set one hour back to Sunday, October 30, 2022, 2:00 am02:00 local standard time instead. Daylight saving ends annually on the last Sunday of October.
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