HKT

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HKT
Stands forHong Kong Time
CategoriesUnits & Measurements

HKT stands for Hong Kong Time, a time zone abbreviation.

Hong Kong's official time, UTC+8 all year, identical to China Standard Time. The Hong Kong Observatory maintains the territory's official time standard.

Example: Markets in Hong Kong open at 9:30 a.m. HKT.

Usage notes

Hong Kong observed summer time intermittently until 1979. Its financial markets overlap with London only in the late afternoon, which shapes trading desks' shift patterns. Macau, across the Pearl River estuary, keeps the same offset.

More time zone abbreviations

  • EEST – Eastern European Summer Time
  • EET – Eastern European Time
  • EST – Eastern Standard Time
  • ET – Eastern Time
  • GMT – Greenwich Mean Time
  • GST – Gulf Standard Time
  • HST – Hawaii-Aleutian Standard Time
  • ICT – Indochina Time
  • IDL – International Date Line
  • IRST – Iran Standard Time
  • IST – India Standard Time
  • JST – Japan Standard Time

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