What is CST (China) in EST?
Eastern Time is 13 hours behind
Convert a time
EST — Eastern Time
3:00 am
EST, Sat
- Time in Beijing
- 4:18:47 PM
- Time in New York
- 3:18:47 AM
- Difference
- −13 h
- Next clock change
- March 14, 2027
When the difference changes
China Standard Time and 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 – March 14, 2027Eastern Time is 13 hours behind
- March 14, 2027 – November 7, 2027Eastern Time is 12 hours behind
- November 7, 2027 – onwardsEastern Time is 13 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 Time
Clocks go forward one hour — 2:00 am becomes 3:00 am local time, and the zone is on EDT after that.
CST (China) to EST conversion table
Every hour of Saturday, November 7, 2026, converted from China Standard Time to Eastern Time. 13 of the 24 hours fall on a different calendar day in New York, which is marked.
- 12:00 am CST
- 11:00 am EST−1 day
- 1:00 am CST
- 12:00 pm EST−1 day
- 2:00 am CST
- 1:00 pm EST−1 day
- 3:00 am CST
- 2:00 pm EST−1 day
- 4:00 am CST
- 3:00 pm EST−1 day
- 5:00 am CST
- 4:00 pm EST−1 day
- 6:00 am CST
- 5:00 pm EST−1 day
- 7:00 am CST
- 6:00 pm EST−1 day
- 8:00 am CST
- 7:00 pm EST−1 day
- 9:00 am CST
- 8:00 pm EST−1 day
- 10:00 am CST
- 9:00 pm EST−1 day
- 11:00 am CST
- 10:00 pm EST−1 day
- 12:00 pm CST
- 11:00 pm EST−1 day
- 1:00 pm CST
- 12:00 am EST
- 2:00 pm CST
- 1:00 am EST
- 3:00 pm CST
- 2:00 am EST
- 4:00 pm CST
- 3:00 am EST
- 5:00 pm CST
- 4:00 am EST
- 6:00 pm CST
- 5:00 am EST
- 7:00 pm CST
- 6:00 am EST
- 8:00 pm CST
- 7:00 am EST
- 9:00 pm CST
- 8:00 am EST
- 10:00 pm CST
- 9:00 am EST
- 11:00 pm CST
- 10:00 am EST
Scheduling between the two
There is no overlap between a nine-to-six working day in Beijing and one in New York — the gap is too wide. A call has to sit early or late for one side. Early morning in Beijing is the usual compromise, since that is late afternoon or evening in New York.
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 Time (EST) is used in Toronto, Atlanta, Miami, Detroit and most of the US east coast
Other conversions
- EST to CST (China)
- CST (China) to UTC
- CST (China) to GMT
- 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 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