What is CST (China) in EAT?
East Africa Time is 5 hours behind
China Standard Time is on UTC+8:00 and East Africa Time is on UTC+3:00 right now. That gap holds all year, because both zones change their clocks together.
- Time in Beijing
- 8:54:14 PM
- Time in Nairobi
- 3:54:14 PM
- Difference
- −5 h
- Next clock change
- Neither zone
Convert a time
EAT — East Africa Time
3:00 pm
EAT, Fri
Daylight saving
China Standard Time
China Standard Time stays on CST all year, so its offset from UTC never moves.
East Africa Time
East Africa Time stays on EAT all year, so its offset from UTC never moves.
CST (China) to EAT conversion table
Every hour of Friday, September 25, 2026, converted from China Standard Time to East Africa Time. 5 of the 24 hours fall on a different calendar day in Nairobi, which is marked.
- 12:00 am CST
- 7:00 pm EAT−1 day
- 1:00 am CST
- 8:00 pm EAT−1 day
- 2:00 am CST
- 9:00 pm EAT−1 day
- 3:00 am CST
- 10:00 pm EAT−1 day
- 4:00 am CST
- 11:00 pm EAT−1 day
- 5:00 am CST
- 12:00 am EAT
- 6:00 am CST
- 1:00 am EAT
- 7:00 am CST
- 2:00 am EAT
- 8:00 am CST
- 3:00 am EAT
- 9:00 am CST
- 4:00 am EAT
- 10:00 am CST
- 5:00 am EAT
- 11:00 am CST
- 6:00 am EAT
- 12:00 pm CST
- 7:00 am EAT
- 1:00 pm CST
- 8:00 am EAT
- 2:00 pm CST
- 9:00 am EAT
- 3:00 pm CST
- 10:00 am EAT
- 4:00 pm CST
- 11:00 am EAT
- 5:00 pm CST
- 12:00 pm EAT
- 6:00 pm CST
- 1:00 pm EAT
- 7:00 pm CST
- 2:00 pm EAT
- 8:00 pm CST
- 3:00 pm EAT
- 9:00 pm CST
- 4:00 pm EAT
- 10:00 pm CST
- 5:00 pm EAT
- 11:00 pm CST
- 6:00 pm EAT
Scheduling between the two
Working hours overlap from 2:00 pm to 6:00 pm CST, which is 9:00 am to 1:00 pm EAT. 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
East Africa Time (EAT) is used in Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda and Ethiopia
Other conversions
- EAT to CST (China)
- CST (China) to UTC
- CST (China) to GMT
- CST (China) to EST
- CST (China) to CST
- CST (China) to MST
- CST (China) to PST
- CST (China) to AKST
- CST (China) to HST
- CST (China) to BST
- CST (China) to CET
- CST (China) to IST
- CST (China) to JST
- CST (China) to AEST
- CST (China) to AST
- CST (China) to Mexico City
- CST (China) to BRT
- CST (China) to ART
- CST (China) to EET
- CST (China) to WET
- CST (China) to MSK
- CST (China) to TRT
- CST (China) to SAST
- CST (China) to WAT
- CST (China) to GST
- CST (China) to PKT
- CST (China) to ICT
- CST (China) to WIB
- CST (China) to SGT
- CST (China) to HKT
- CST (China) to KST
- CST (China) to PHT
- CST (China) to AWST
- CST (China) to ACST
- CST (China) to NZST
- All zones