What is CST in EST?
Eastern Time is 1 hour ahead
Central Time is on UTC−5:00 and Eastern Time is on UTC−4:00 right now. Both are on daylight saving, so their clocks read CDT and EDT. That gap holds all year, because both zones change their clocks together.
- Time in Chicago
- 8:34 pm
- Time in New York
- 9:34 pm
- Difference
- +1 h
- Next clock change
- November 1, 2026
Convert a time
EDT — Eastern Time
9:00 pm
Tue
Daylight saving
Central Time
Clocks go back one hour at 2am local time, becoming CST.
Eastern Time
Clocks go back one hour at 2am local time, becoming EST.
CST to EST conversion table
Every hour of Tuesday, September 22, 2026, converted from Central Time to Eastern Time. 1 of the 24 hours fall on a different calendar day in New York, which is marked.
- 12:00 am CDT
- 1:00 am EDT
- 1:00 am CDT
- 2:00 am EDT
- 2:00 am CDT
- 3:00 am EDT
- 3:00 am CDT
- 4:00 am EDT
- 4:00 am CDT
- 5:00 am EDT
- 5:00 am CDT
- 6:00 am EDT
- 6:00 am CDT
- 7:00 am EDT
- 7:00 am CDT
- 8:00 am EDT
- 8:00 am CDT
- 9:00 am EDT
- 9:00 am CDT
- 10:00 am EDT
- 10:00 am CDT
- 11:00 am EDT
- 11:00 am CDT
- 12:00 pm EDT
- 12:00 pm CDT
- 1:00 pm EDT
- 1:00 pm CDT
- 2:00 pm EDT
- 2:00 pm CDT
- 3:00 pm EDT
- 3:00 pm CDT
- 4:00 pm EDT
- 4:00 pm CDT
- 5:00 pm EDT
- 5:00 pm CDT
- 6:00 pm EDT
- 6:00 pm CDT
- 7:00 pm EDT
- 7:00 pm CDT
- 8:00 pm EDT
- 8:00 pm CDT
- 9:00 pm EDT
- 9:00 pm CDT
- 10:00 pm EDT
- 10:00 pm CDT
- 11:00 pm EDT
- 11:00 pm CDT
- 12:00 am EDT+1 day
Scheduling between the two
Working hours overlap from 9:00 am to 5:00 pm CDT, which is 10:00 am to 6:00 pm EDT. Anything inside that window falls in the normal working day at both ends.
A note on CST: it can also mean China Standard Time (UTC+8) and Cuba Standard Time (UTC−5). This page means US Central Time.
Central Time (CDT) is used in Dallas, Houston, Mexico City and Winnipeg
Eastern Time (EDT) is used in Toronto, Atlanta, Miami, Detroit and most of the US east coast