What is CST (China) in PKT?
Pakistan Standard Time is 3 hours behind
China Standard Time is on UTC+8:00 and Pakistan Standard Time is on UTC+5:00 right now. That gap holds all year, because both zones change their clocks together.
- Time in Beijing
- 8:54:20 PM
- Time in Karachi
- 5:54:20 PM
- Difference
- −3 h
- Next clock change
- Neither zone
Convert a time
PKT — Pakistan Standard Time
5:00 pm
PKT, Fri
Daylight saving
China Standard Time
China Standard Time stays on CST all year, so its offset from UTC never moves.
Pakistan Standard Time
Pakistan Standard Time stays on PKT all year, so its offset from UTC never moves.
CST (China) to PKT conversion table
Every hour of Friday, September 25, 2026, converted from China Standard Time to Pakistan Standard Time. 3 of the 24 hours fall on a different calendar day in Karachi, which is marked.
- 12:00 am CST
- 9:00 pm PKT−1 day
- 1:00 am CST
- 10:00 pm PKT−1 day
- 2:00 am CST
- 11:00 pm PKT−1 day
- 3:00 am CST
- 12:00 am PKT
- 4:00 am CST
- 1:00 am PKT
- 5:00 am CST
- 2:00 am PKT
- 6:00 am CST
- 3:00 am PKT
- 7:00 am CST
- 4:00 am PKT
- 8:00 am CST
- 5:00 am PKT
- 9:00 am CST
- 6:00 am PKT
- 10:00 am CST
- 7:00 am PKT
- 11:00 am CST
- 8:00 am PKT
- 12:00 pm CST
- 9:00 am PKT
- 1:00 pm CST
- 10:00 am PKT
- 2:00 pm CST
- 11:00 am PKT
- 3:00 pm CST
- 12:00 pm PKT
- 4:00 pm CST
- 1:00 pm PKT
- 5:00 pm CST
- 2:00 pm PKT
- 6:00 pm CST
- 3:00 pm PKT
- 7:00 pm CST
- 4:00 pm PKT
- 8:00 pm CST
- 5:00 pm PKT
- 9:00 pm CST
- 6:00 pm PKT
- 10:00 pm CST
- 7:00 pm PKT
- 11:00 pm CST
- 8:00 pm PKT
Scheduling between the two
Working hours overlap from 12:00 pm to 6:00 pm CST, which is 9:00 am to 3:00 pm PKT. 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
Other conversions
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- CST (China) to AEST
- CST (China) to AST
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- CST (China) to ART
- CST (China) to EET
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- CST (China) to TRT
- CST (China) to SAST
- CST (China) to WAT
- CST (China) to EAT
- CST (China) to GST
- CST (China) to ICT
- CST (China) to WIB
- CST (China) to SGT
- CST (China) to HKT
- CST (China) to KST
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- CST (China) to AWST
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