What is CST (China) in PST?
Pacific Time is 16 hours behind
Convert a time
PST — Pacific Time
12:00 am
PST, Sat
- Time in Beijing
- 4:30:29 PM
- Time in Los Angeles
- 12:30:29 AM
- Difference
- −16 h
- Next clock change
- March 14, 2027
When the difference changes
China Standard Time and Pacific 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, 2027Pacific Time is 16 hours behind
- March 14, 2027 – November 7, 2027Pacific Time is 15 hours behind
- November 7, 2027 – onwardsPacific Time is 16 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.
Pacific Time
Clocks go forward one hour — 2:00 am becomes 3:00 am local time, and the zone is on PDT after that.
CST (China) to PST conversion table
Every hour of Saturday, November 7, 2026, converted from China Standard Time to Pacific Time. 16 of the 24 hours fall on a different calendar day in Los Angeles, which is marked.
- 12:00 am CST
- 8:00 am PST−1 day
- 1:00 am CST
- 9:00 am PST−1 day
- 2:00 am CST
- 10:00 am PST−1 day
- 3:00 am CST
- 11:00 am PST−1 day
- 4:00 am CST
- 12:00 pm PST−1 day
- 5:00 am CST
- 1:00 pm PST−1 day
- 6:00 am CST
- 2:00 pm PST−1 day
- 7:00 am CST
- 3:00 pm PST−1 day
- 8:00 am CST
- 4:00 pm PST−1 day
- 9:00 am CST
- 5:00 pm PST−1 day
- 10:00 am CST
- 6:00 pm PST−1 day
- 11:00 am CST
- 7:00 pm PST−1 day
- 12:00 pm CST
- 8:00 pm PST−1 day
- 1:00 pm CST
- 9:00 pm PST−1 day
- 2:00 pm CST
- 10:00 pm PST−1 day
- 3:00 pm CST
- 11:00 pm PST−1 day
- 4:00 pm CST
- 12:00 am PST
- 5:00 pm CST
- 1:00 am PST
- 6:00 pm CST
- 2:00 am PST
- 7:00 pm CST
- 3:00 am PST
- 8:00 pm CST
- 4:00 am PST
- 9:00 pm CST
- 5:00 am PST
- 10:00 pm CST
- 6:00 am PST
- 11:00 pm CST
- 7:00 am PST
Scheduling between the two
Working hours overlap from 9:00 am to 10:00 am CST, which is 5:00 pm to 6:00 pm PST. 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
Pacific Time (PST) is used in San Francisco, Seattle, Las Vegas and Vancouver
Other conversions
- PST to CST (China)
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- CST (China) to GMT
- CST (China) to EST
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- CST (China) to MST
- 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
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