What is UTC in CST (China)?
China Standard Time is 8 hours ahead
Coordinated Universal Time is on UTC+0:00 and China Standard Time is on UTC+8:00 right now. That gap holds all year, because both zones change their clocks together.
- Time in the prime meridian
- 2:56 am
- Time in Beijing
- 10:56 am
- Difference
- +8 h
- Next clock change
- Neither zone
Convert a time
CST — China Standard Time
10:00 am
Wed
Daylight saving
Coordinated Universal Time
Coordinated Universal Time stays on UTC all year, so its offset from UTC never moves.
China Standard Time
China Standard Time stays on CST all year, so its offset from UTC never moves.
UTC to CST (China) conversion table
Every hour of Wednesday, September 23, 2026, converted from Coordinated Universal Time to China Standard Time. 8 of the 24 hours fall on a different calendar day in Beijing, which is marked.
- 12:00 am UTC
- 8:00 am CST
- 1:00 am UTC
- 9:00 am CST
- 2:00 am UTC
- 10:00 am CST
- 3:00 am UTC
- 11:00 am CST
- 4:00 am UTC
- 12:00 pm CST
- 5:00 am UTC
- 1:00 pm CST
- 6:00 am UTC
- 2:00 pm CST
- 7:00 am UTC
- 3:00 pm CST
- 8:00 am UTC
- 4:00 pm CST
- 9:00 am UTC
- 5:00 pm CST
- 10:00 am UTC
- 6:00 pm CST
- 11:00 am UTC
- 7:00 pm CST
- 12:00 pm UTC
- 8:00 pm CST
- 1:00 pm UTC
- 9:00 pm CST
- 2:00 pm UTC
- 10:00 pm CST
- 3:00 pm UTC
- 11:00 pm CST
- 4:00 pm UTC
- 12:00 am CST+1 day
- 5:00 pm UTC
- 1:00 am CST+1 day
- 6:00 pm UTC
- 2:00 am CST+1 day
- 7:00 pm UTC
- 3:00 am CST+1 day
- 8:00 pm UTC
- 4:00 am CST+1 day
- 9:00 pm UTC
- 5:00 am CST+1 day
- 10:00 pm UTC
- 6:00 am CST+1 day
- 11:00 pm UTC
- 7:00 am CST+1 day
Scheduling between the two
Working hours overlap from 9:00 am to 10:00 am UTC, which is 5:00 pm to 6:00 pm CST. 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.
Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) is used in aviation, computing, and science worldwide. UTC never changes for daylight saving.
China Standard Time (CST) is used in the whole of China, which runs on one offset from Kashgar to Shanghai