Convert HKT to PKT

PKT is 3 hours behind HKT. HKT is UTC+8 and PKT is UTC+5.

Best time to schedule a meeting

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

HKT to PKT conversion table

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.

About PKT

Pakistan Standard Time (PKT) is UTC+5. It is used in Pakistan, all year.

Pakistan Standard Time is UTC+5 and does not change through the year — daylight saving has been tried twice and abandoned twice. It sits half an hour behind India, which is the only pair of neighbouring countries in the region separated by a half-hour step rather than a whole one, and a common source of missed calls across that border.

Does this gap change with the seasons?

Neither HKT nor PKT shifts with the seasons, so this 3-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 HKT conversions

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

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