What is CET in PKT?
Pakistan Standard Time is 3 hours ahead
Central European Time is on UTC+2:00 and Pakistan Standard Time is on UTC+5:00 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 Karachi
- 7:56 am
- Difference
- +3 h
- Next clock change
- October 25, 2026
Convert a time
PKT — Pakistan Standard Time
7:00 am
Wed
When the difference changes
Central European Time and Pakistan 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 – October 25, 2026Pakistan Standard Time is 3 hours ahead
- October 25, 2026 – March 28, 2027Pakistan Standard Time is 4 hours ahead
- March 28, 2027 – onwardsPakistan Standard Time is 3 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.
Pakistan Standard Time
Pakistan Standard Time stays on PKT all year, so its offset from UTC never moves.
CET to PKT conversion table
Every hour of Wednesday, September 23, 2026, converted from Central European Time to Pakistan Standard Time. 3 of the 24 hours fall on a different calendar day in Karachi, which is marked.
- 12:00 am CEST
- 3:00 am PKT
- 1:00 am CEST
- 4:00 am PKT
- 2:00 am CEST
- 5:00 am PKT
- 3:00 am CEST
- 6:00 am PKT
- 4:00 am CEST
- 7:00 am PKT
- 5:00 am CEST
- 8:00 am PKT
- 6:00 am CEST
- 9:00 am PKT
- 7:00 am CEST
- 10:00 am PKT
- 8:00 am CEST
- 11:00 am PKT
- 9:00 am CEST
- 12:00 pm PKT
- 10:00 am CEST
- 1:00 pm PKT
- 11:00 am CEST
- 2:00 pm PKT
- 12:00 pm CEST
- 3:00 pm PKT
- 1:00 pm CEST
- 4:00 pm PKT
- 2:00 pm CEST
- 5:00 pm PKT
- 3:00 pm CEST
- 6:00 pm PKT
- 4:00 pm CEST
- 7:00 pm PKT
- 5:00 pm CEST
- 8:00 pm PKT
- 6:00 pm CEST
- 9:00 pm PKT
- 7:00 pm CEST
- 10:00 pm PKT
- 8:00 pm CEST
- 11:00 pm PKT
- 9:00 pm CEST
- 12:00 am PKT+1 day
- 10:00 pm CEST
- 1:00 am PKT+1 day
- 11:00 pm CEST
- 2:00 am PKT+1 day
Scheduling between the two
Working hours overlap from 9:00 am to 3:00 pm CEST, which is 12:00 pm to 6:00 pm PKT. 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