What is CST (China) in EET?
Eastern European Time is 5 hours behind
China Standard Time is on UTC+8:00 and Eastern European Time is on UTC+3:00 right now. Eastern European Time is on daylight saving, so its clocks read EEST. The gap changes during the year — see below.
- Time in Beijing
- 8:03:27 PM
- Time in Athens
- 3:03:27 PM
- Difference
- −5 h
- Next clock change
- October 25, 2026
Convert a time
EEST — Eastern European Time
3:00 pm
EEST, Fri
When the difference changes
China Standard Time and Eastern European 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, 2026Eastern European Time is 5 hours behind
- October 25, 2026 – March 28, 2027Eastern European Time is 6 hours behind
- March 28, 2027 – onwardsEastern European Time is 5 hours behind
Periods shorter than a day are not listed. Each zone changes at its own local time, so on a date when both move there are a few hours 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.
Eastern European Time
Clocks go back one hour — 4:00 am becomes 3:00 am local time, and the zone is on EET after that.
CST (China) to EET conversion table
Every hour of Friday, September 25, 2026, converted from China Standard Time to Eastern European Time. 5 of the 24 hours fall on a different calendar day in Athens, which is marked.
- 12:00 am CST
- 7:00 pm EEST−1 day
- 1:00 am CST
- 8:00 pm EEST−1 day
- 2:00 am CST
- 9:00 pm EEST−1 day
- 3:00 am CST
- 10:00 pm EEST−1 day
- 4:00 am CST
- 11:00 pm EEST−1 day
- 5:00 am CST
- 12:00 am EEST
- 6:00 am CST
- 1:00 am EEST
- 7:00 am CST
- 2:00 am EEST
- 8:00 am CST
- 3:00 am EEST
- 9:00 am CST
- 4:00 am EEST
- 10:00 am CST
- 5:00 am EEST
- 11:00 am CST
- 6:00 am EEST
- 12:00 pm CST
- 7:00 am EEST
- 1:00 pm CST
- 8:00 am EEST
- 2:00 pm CST
- 9:00 am EEST
- 3:00 pm CST
- 10:00 am EEST
- 4:00 pm CST
- 11:00 am EEST
- 5:00 pm CST
- 12:00 pm EEST
- 6:00 pm CST
- 1:00 pm EEST
- 7:00 pm CST
- 2:00 pm EEST
- 8:00 pm CST
- 3:00 pm EEST
- 9:00 pm CST
- 4:00 pm EEST
- 10:00 pm CST
- 5:00 pm EEST
- 11:00 pm CST
- 6:00 pm EEST
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 EEST. 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
Eastern European Time (EEST) is used in Helsinki, Bucharest, Kyiv and Cairo
Other conversions
- EET 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 WET
- CST (China) to MSK
- CST (China) to TRT
- CST (China) to SAST
- CST (China) to WAT
- CST (China) to EAT
- 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