Convert EAT to HKT

HKT is 5 hours ahead of EAT. EAT is UTC+3 and HKT is UTC+8.

Best time to schedule a meeting

Standard 9–5 working hours overlap for 3 hours: 9:00 AM–12:00 PM EAT (2:00 PM–5:00 PM HKT). Schedule meetings inside that window.

EAT to HKT conversion table

About EAT

East Africa Time (EAT) is UTC+3. It is used in Kenya, Tanzania, Ethiopia, Uganda and Somalia.

East Africa Time is UTC+3 and fixed. Nairobi, Addis Ababa and Dar es Salaam all keep it. Ethiopia additionally uses a clock that counts from dawn rather than midnight for everyday purposes, six hours off the international one, so a time given locally in Addis may need converting twice rather than once.

About HKT

Hong Kong Time (HKT) is UTC+8. It is used in Hong Kong, and matching mainland China and Taiwan.

Hong Kong Time is UTC+8 and has had no daylight saving since 1979. It shares its offset with mainland China, Singapore, Taiwan, Manila and Perth, which makes UTC+8 the most economically dense single offset in the world — roughly a fifth of the planet's population runs on it, and a meeting scheduled in it reaches an unusual amount of Asia at once.

Does this gap change with the seasons?

Neither EAT nor HKT shifts with the seasons, so this 5-hour difference holds all year. That is unusual enough to be worth relying on: most cross-continental gaps move twice a year.

This is the reason scheduling systems store an IANA zone such as Region/City rather than an offset or an abbreviation: the zone knows its own rules and the offset does not.

Frequently asked questions

Other EAT conversions

• EAT to UTC
• EAT to GMT
• EAT to EST
• EAT to EDT
• EAT to CST
• EAT to CDT
• EAT to MST
• EAT to MDT
• EAT to PST
• EAT to PDT
• EAT to AKST
• EAT to HST
• EAT to BRT
• EAT to BST
• EAT to CET
• EAT to CEST

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