What is CST (China) in UTC?
Coordinated Universal Time is 8 hours behind
China Standard Time is on UTC+8:00 and Coordinated Universal Time is on UTC+0:00 right now. That gap holds all year, because both zones change their clocks together.
- Time in Beijing
- 10:15 am
- Time in the prime meridian
- 2:15 am
- Difference
- −8 h
- Next clock change
- Neither zone
Convert a time
UTC — Coordinated Universal Time
2:00 am
Wed
Daylight saving
China Standard Time
China Standard Time stays on CST all year, so its offset from UTC never moves.
Coordinated Universal Time
Coordinated Universal Time stays on UTC all year, so its offset from UTC never moves.
CST (China) to UTC conversion table
Every hour of Wednesday, September 23, 2026, converted from China Standard Time to Coordinated Universal Time. 8 of the 24 hours fall on a different calendar day in the prime meridian, which is marked.
- 12:00 am CST
- 4:00 pm UTC−1 day
- 1:00 am CST
- 5:00 pm UTC−1 day
- 2:00 am CST
- 6:00 pm UTC−1 day
- 3:00 am CST
- 7:00 pm UTC−1 day
- 4:00 am CST
- 8:00 pm UTC−1 day
- 5:00 am CST
- 9:00 pm UTC−1 day
- 6:00 am CST
- 10:00 pm UTC−1 day
- 7:00 am CST
- 11:00 pm UTC−1 day
- 8:00 am CST
- 12:00 am UTC
- 9:00 am CST
- 1:00 am UTC
- 10:00 am CST
- 2:00 am UTC
- 11:00 am CST
- 3:00 am UTC
- 12:00 pm CST
- 4:00 am UTC
- 1:00 pm CST
- 5:00 am UTC
- 2:00 pm CST
- 6:00 am UTC
- 3:00 pm CST
- 7:00 am UTC
- 4:00 pm CST
- 8:00 am UTC
- 5:00 pm CST
- 9:00 am UTC
- 6:00 pm CST
- 10:00 am UTC
- 7:00 pm CST
- 11:00 am UTC
- 8:00 pm CST
- 12:00 pm UTC
- 9:00 pm CST
- 1:00 pm UTC
- 10:00 pm CST
- 2:00 pm UTC
- 11:00 pm CST
- 3:00 pm UTC
Scheduling between the two
Working hours overlap from 5:00 pm to 6:00 pm CST, which is 9:00 am to 10:00 am UTC. 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
Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) is used in aviation, computing, and science worldwide. UTC never changes for daylight saving.