Convert HKT to SAST

SAST is 6 hours behind HKT. HKT is UTC+8 and SAST is UTC+2.

Best time to schedule a meeting

Standard 9–5 working hours overlap for 2 hours: 3:00 PM–5:00 PM HKT (9:00 AM–11:00 AM SAST). Schedule meetings inside that window.

HKT to SAST 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 SAST

South Africa Standard Time (SAST) is UTC+2. It is used in South Africa, Lesotho and Eswatini.

South Africa Standard Time is UTC+2 with no daylight saving, unchanged since 1903 apart from two wartime years. The whole country keeps it, and so do Lesotho and Eswatini. Against the UK it is two hours ahead in winter and one in summer, which is the shift that catches London–Johannesburg standing calls every March and October.

Does this gap change with the seasons?

Neither HKT nor SAST shifts with the seasons, so this 6-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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