What is AKST in CST (China)?
China Standard Time is 16 hours ahead
Alaska Time is on UTC−8:00 and China Standard Time is on UTC+8:00 right now. Alaska Time is on daylight saving, so its clocks read AKDT. The gap changes during the year — see below.
- Time in Anchorage
- 6:15 pm
- Time in Beijing
- 10:15 am
- Difference
- +16 h
- Next clock change
- November 1, 2026
Convert a time
CST — China Standard Time
10:00 am
Wed, the next day
When the difference changes
Alaska Time and China Standard Time do not change their clocks on the same dates, so the gap between them is not the same all year. Most converters show only today’s figure. These are the periods ahead:
- Now – November 1, 2026China Standard Time is 16 hours ahead
- November 1, 2026 – March 14, 2027China Standard Time is 17 hours ahead
- March 14, 2027 – onwardsChina Standard Time is 16 hours ahead
Periods shorter than a day are not listed: both zones change at 2am in their own local time, so there are a few hours on each transition date when the gap is briefly something else.
Daylight saving
Alaska Time
Clocks go back one hour at 2am local time, becoming AKST.
China Standard Time
China Standard Time stays on CST all year, so its offset from UTC never moves.
AKST to CST (China) conversion table
Every hour of Tuesday, September 22, 2026, converted from Alaska Time to China Standard Time. 16 of the 24 hours fall on a different calendar day in Beijing, which is marked.
- 12:00 am AKDT
- 4:00 pm CST
- 1:00 am AKDT
- 5:00 pm CST
- 2:00 am AKDT
- 6:00 pm CST
- 3:00 am AKDT
- 7:00 pm CST
- 4:00 am AKDT
- 8:00 pm CST
- 5:00 am AKDT
- 9:00 pm CST
- 6:00 am AKDT
- 10:00 pm CST
- 7:00 am AKDT
- 11:00 pm CST
- 8:00 am AKDT
- 12:00 am CST+1 day
- 9:00 am AKDT
- 1:00 am CST+1 day
- 10:00 am AKDT
- 2:00 am CST+1 day
- 11:00 am AKDT
- 3:00 am CST+1 day
- 12:00 pm AKDT
- 4:00 am CST+1 day
- 1:00 pm AKDT
- 5:00 am CST+1 day
- 2:00 pm AKDT
- 6:00 am CST+1 day
- 3:00 pm AKDT
- 7:00 am CST+1 day
- 4:00 pm AKDT
- 8:00 am CST+1 day
- 5:00 pm AKDT
- 9:00 am CST+1 day
- 6:00 pm AKDT
- 10:00 am CST+1 day
- 7:00 pm AKDT
- 11:00 am CST+1 day
- 8:00 pm AKDT
- 12:00 pm CST+1 day
- 9:00 pm AKDT
- 1:00 pm CST+1 day
- 10:00 pm AKDT
- 2:00 pm CST+1 day
- 11:00 pm AKDT
- 3:00 pm CST+1 day
Scheduling between the two
Working hours overlap from 5:00 pm to 6:00 pm AKDT, which is 9:00 am to 10:00 am CST. Anything inside that window falls in the normal working day at both ends.
A note on CST (China): it can also mean the abbreviation CST is shared with US Central Time and Cuba Standard Time.
China Standard Time (CST) is used in the whole of China, which runs on one offset from Kashgar to Shanghai