What is CST (China) in AEST?
Australian Eastern Time is 2 hours ahead
China Standard Time is on UTC+8:00 and Australian Eastern Time is on UTC+10:00 right now. The gap changes during the year — see below.
- Time in Beijing
- 10:15 am
- Time in Sydney
- 12:15 pm
- Difference
- +2 h
- Next clock change
- October 3, 2026
Convert a time
AEST — Australian Eastern Time
12:00 pm
Wed
When the difference changes
China Standard Time and Australian Eastern 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 3, 2026Australian Eastern Time is 2 hours ahead
- October 3, 2026 – April 3, 2027Australian Eastern Time is 3 hours ahead
- April 3, 2027 – October 2, 2027Australian Eastern Time is 2 hours ahead
- October 2, 2027 – onwardsAustralian Eastern 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
China Standard Time
China Standard Time stays on CST all year, so its offset from UTC never moves.
Australian Eastern Time
Clocks go forward one hour at 2am local time, becoming AEDT.
CST (China) to AEST conversion table
Every hour of Wednesday, September 23, 2026, converted from China Standard Time to Australian Eastern Time. 2 of the 24 hours fall on a different calendar day in Sydney, which is marked.
- 12:00 am CST
- 2:00 am AEST
- 1:00 am CST
- 3:00 am AEST
- 2:00 am CST
- 4:00 am AEST
- 3:00 am CST
- 5:00 am AEST
- 4:00 am CST
- 6:00 am AEST
- 5:00 am CST
- 7:00 am AEST
- 6:00 am CST
- 8:00 am AEST
- 7:00 am CST
- 9:00 am AEST
- 8:00 am CST
- 10:00 am AEST
- 9:00 am CST
- 11:00 am AEST
- 10:00 am CST
- 12:00 pm AEST
- 11:00 am CST
- 1:00 pm AEST
- 12:00 pm CST
- 2:00 pm AEST
- 1:00 pm CST
- 3:00 pm AEST
- 2:00 pm CST
- 4:00 pm AEST
- 3:00 pm CST
- 5:00 pm AEST
- 4:00 pm CST
- 6:00 pm AEST
- 5:00 pm CST
- 7:00 pm AEST
- 6:00 pm CST
- 8:00 pm AEST
- 7:00 pm CST
- 9:00 pm AEST
- 8:00 pm CST
- 10:00 pm AEST
- 9:00 pm CST
- 11:00 pm AEST
- 10:00 pm CST
- 12:00 am AEST+1 day
- 11:00 pm CST
- 1:00 am AEST+1 day
Scheduling between the two
Working hours overlap from 9:00 am to 4:00 pm CST, which is 11:00 am to 6:00 pm AEST. 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
Australian Eastern Time (AEST) is used in Melbourne, Canberra and Brisbane. Queensland stays on AEST all year while the southern states move to AEDT.