What is CET in HKT?
Hong Kong Time is 6 hours ahead
Central European Time is on UTC+2:00 and Hong Kong Time is on UTC+8:00 right now. Central European Time is on daylight saving, so its clocks read CEST. The gap changes during the year — see below.
- Time in Paris
- 4:56 am
- Time in Hong Kong
- 10:56 am
- Difference
- +6 h
- Next clock change
- October 25, 2026
Convert a time
HKT — Hong Kong Time
10:00 am
Wed
When the difference changes
Central European Time and Hong Kong 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 – October 25, 2026Hong Kong Time is 6 hours ahead
- October 25, 2026 – March 28, 2027Hong Kong Time is 7 hours ahead
- March 28, 2027 – onwardsHong Kong Time is 6 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
Central European Time
Clocks go back one hour at 2am local time, becoming CET.
Hong Kong Time
Hong Kong Time stays on HKT all year, so its offset from UTC never moves.
CET to HKT conversion table
Every hour of Wednesday, September 23, 2026, converted from Central European Time to Hong Kong Time. 6 of the 24 hours fall on a different calendar day in Hong Kong, which is marked.
- 12:00 am CEST
- 6:00 am HKT
- 1:00 am CEST
- 7:00 am HKT
- 2:00 am CEST
- 8:00 am HKT
- 3:00 am CEST
- 9:00 am HKT
- 4:00 am CEST
- 10:00 am HKT
- 5:00 am CEST
- 11:00 am HKT
- 6:00 am CEST
- 12:00 pm HKT
- 7:00 am CEST
- 1:00 pm HKT
- 8:00 am CEST
- 2:00 pm HKT
- 9:00 am CEST
- 3:00 pm HKT
- 10:00 am CEST
- 4:00 pm HKT
- 11:00 am CEST
- 5:00 pm HKT
- 12:00 pm CEST
- 6:00 pm HKT
- 1:00 pm CEST
- 7:00 pm HKT
- 2:00 pm CEST
- 8:00 pm HKT
- 3:00 pm CEST
- 9:00 pm HKT
- 4:00 pm CEST
- 10:00 pm HKT
- 5:00 pm CEST
- 11:00 pm HKT
- 6:00 pm CEST
- 12:00 am HKT+1 day
- 7:00 pm CEST
- 1:00 am HKT+1 day
- 8:00 pm CEST
- 2:00 am HKT+1 day
- 9:00 pm CEST
- 3:00 am HKT+1 day
- 10:00 pm CEST
- 4:00 am HKT+1 day
- 11:00 pm CEST
- 5:00 am HKT+1 day
Scheduling between the two
Working hours overlap from 9:00 am to 12:00 pm CEST, which is 3:00 pm to 6:00 pm HKT. Anything inside that window falls in the normal working day at both ends.
Central European Time (CEST) is used in Berlin, Madrid, Rome, Amsterdam, Warsaw and Stockholm