What is CST (China) in SAST?
South Africa Standard Time is 6 hours behind
China Standard Time is on UTC+8:00 and South Africa Standard Time is on UTC+2:00 right now. That gap holds all year, because both zones change their clocks together.
- Time in Beijing
- 8:04:16 PM
- Time in Johannesburg
- 2:04:16 PM
- Difference
- −6 h
- Next clock change
- Neither zone
Convert a time
SAST — South Africa Standard Time
2:00 pm
SAST, Fri
Daylight saving
China Standard Time
China Standard Time stays on CST all year, so its offset from UTC never moves.
South Africa Standard Time
South Africa Standard Time stays on SAST all year, so its offset from UTC never moves.
CST (China) to SAST conversion table
Every hour of Friday, September 25, 2026, converted from China Standard Time to South Africa Standard Time. 6 of the 24 hours fall on a different calendar day in Johannesburg, which is marked.
- 12:00 am CST
- 6:00 pm SAST−1 day
- 1:00 am CST
- 7:00 pm SAST−1 day
- 2:00 am CST
- 8:00 pm SAST−1 day
- 3:00 am CST
- 9:00 pm SAST−1 day
- 4:00 am CST
- 10:00 pm SAST−1 day
- 5:00 am CST
- 11:00 pm SAST−1 day
- 6:00 am CST
- 12:00 am SAST
- 7:00 am CST
- 1:00 am SAST
- 8:00 am CST
- 2:00 am SAST
- 9:00 am CST
- 3:00 am SAST
- 10:00 am CST
- 4:00 am SAST
- 11:00 am CST
- 5:00 am SAST
- 12:00 pm CST
- 6:00 am SAST
- 1:00 pm CST
- 7:00 am SAST
- 2:00 pm CST
- 8:00 am SAST
- 3:00 pm CST
- 9:00 am SAST
- 4:00 pm CST
- 10:00 am SAST
- 5:00 pm CST
- 11:00 am SAST
- 6:00 pm CST
- 12:00 pm SAST
- 7:00 pm CST
- 1:00 pm SAST
- 8:00 pm CST
- 2:00 pm SAST
- 9:00 pm CST
- 3:00 pm SAST
- 10:00 pm CST
- 4:00 pm SAST
- 11:00 pm CST
- 5:00 pm SAST
Scheduling between the two
Working hours overlap from 3:00 pm to 6:00 pm CST, which is 9:00 am to 12:00 pm SAST. 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
- SAST 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 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