UTC to HKT
Hong Kong Time is 8 hours ahead of Coordinated Universal Time, all year round.
UTC to HKT conversion table
Every hour of the day, Coordinated Universal Time to Hong Kong Time. The gap never changes, so this table holds on every date.
| UTC | HKT |
|---|---|
| 12:00 AM | 8:00 AM |
| 1:00 AM | 9:00 AM |
| 2:00 AM | 10:00 AM |
| 3:00 AM | 11:00 AM |
| 4:00 AM | 12:00 PM |
| 5:00 AM | 1:00 PM |
| 6:00 AM | 2:00 PM |
| 7:00 AM | 3:00 PM |
| 8:00 AM | 4:00 PM |
| 9:00 AM | 5:00 PM |
| 10:00 AM | 6:00 PM |
| 11:00 AM | 7:00 PM |
| UTC | HKT |
|---|---|
| 12:00 PM | 8:00 PM |
| 1:00 PM | 9:00 PM |
| 2:00 PM | 10:00 PM |
| 3:00 PM | 11:00 PM |
| 4:00 PM | 12:00 AM +1 day |
| 5:00 PM | 1:00 AM +1 day |
| 6:00 PM | 2:00 AM +1 day |
| 7:00 PM | 3:00 AM +1 day |
| 8:00 PM | 4:00 AM +1 day |
| 9:00 PM | 5:00 AM +1 day |
| 10:00 PM | 6:00 AM +1 day |
| 11:00 PM | 7:00 AM +1 day |
Shared working hours
They do not overlap at all. A 09:00–17:00 working day in Coordinated Universal Time ends no time at all before the Hong Kong Time one begins, so any live call sits outside somebody's working hours.
The shortest reach is the edges: early morning in UTC against late evening in HKT, or the other way round.
When the difference changes
It doesn't. Hong Kong Time is 8 hours ahead of Coordinated Universal Time on every date of the year. Coordinated Universal Time runs at UTC+00:00; Hong Kong Time runs at UTC+08:00.
About Coordinated Universal Time
UTC never shifts. It is the reference every other zone is defined against, which is why logs, flight schedules and protocol timestamps use it. GMT is the same clock for every civil purpose, so a query for one is answered by the other.
Cities on this clock: Reykjavik, Accra, Abidjan, Dakar.
Watch out: GMT is also used loosely to mean "UK time", and those are not the same thing for seven months of the year — the United Kingdom moves to BST (UTC+1) while UTC stays put.
About Hong Kong Time
Hong Kong is a fixed UTC+8. Daylight saving was used on and off until 1979 and has not been since, so its gap to every other zone on this site is either constant or moves only because the other zone changes.
Cities on this clock: Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Chongqing, Taipei, Hong Kong, Singapore.
How the difference is worked out
Neither Coordinated Universal Time nor Hong Kong Time moves its clock relative to the other, so hong kong time is 8 hours ahead of coordinated universal time is a rule rather than a fact about one particular year. The hour-by-hour table above holds on every date.
With both zones on their own standard time — daylight saving not in force anywhere — Hong Kong Time is 8 hours ahead of Coordinated Universal Time. That figure never changes; everything else on this page follows from it plus whichever clocks have moved.
Every figure here comes from the IANA time zone database via your browser's own Intl engine, using the zone ids UTC and Asia/Hong_Kong. Nothing is looked up on a server and nothing about your visit is recorded.
Is HKT ahead of or behind UTC?
Hong Kong Time is 8 hours ahead of Coordinated Universal Time, all year round. Coordinated Universal Time runs at UTC+00:00; Hong Kong Time runs at UTC+08:00. Because neither zone changes its clock, the gap never moves.
What time is 9 AM UTC in HKT?
9:00 AM UTC is 5:00 PM HKT.
When can Coordinated Universal Time and Hong Kong Time meet?
They do not overlap. A 09:00–17:00 working day in Coordinated Universal Time ends no time at all before the Hong Kong Time one begins, so a call has to sit outside someone's working hours — early morning in Coordinated Universal Time or late evening in Hong Kong Time is usually the shortest reach.
What does UTC stand for?
UTC is Coordinated Universal Time, also written GMT, Greenwich Mean Time, Zulu time. GMT is also used loosely to mean "UK time", and those are not the same thing for seven months of the year — the United Kingdom moves to BST (UTC+1) while UTC stays put.