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Central Standard Time

Offset: CST is 6 hours behind Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) and is used in North America

Countries: It is used in following countries: Belize, Canada, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, El Salvador, United States

Principal Cities: The largest city in the CST timezone is Mexico City from Mexico with population about 12.294 million people. Other major cities in the area are Chicago, Houston, Iztapalapa, Ecatepec

French: HNC - Heure Normale du Centre

Spanish: CT - Tiempo Central Estándar, CT - Zona Centro

CST timezone map

Daylight Saving: This is a standard timezone, however during summer some places switch clocks for one hour forward when daylight saving comes into effect and observe Central Daylight Time (CDT).

Start: Central Standard Time (CST) started on Sunday, November 2, 2025 at 2:00 am local time and clocks were set one hour back to Sunday, November 2, 2025, 1:00 am. Standard time starts annually the on first Sunday of November.

End: Central Standard Time (CST) ends on Sunday, March 8, 2026 at 2:00 am local time and clocks are set one hour forward to Sunday, March 8, 2026, 3:00 am local daylight time instead. Standard time starts annually the on second Sunday of March.

CST representations, usage and related time zones

W3C/ISO-8601: International standard covering representation and exchange of dates and time-related data

-06 - basic short

-0600 - basic

-06:00 - extended

Email/RFC-2822: Internet Message Format Date Standard, typically used for timestamps in email headers

-0600 - sign character (-) followed by a four digit time providing hours (06) and minutes (00) of the offset. Indicates six hour and zero minutes time differences to the west of the zero meridian.

Military/NATO: Used by the U.S. military, Chinese military and others

Sierra - Military abbreviation for CST

S - short form of 'Sierra'

IANA/Olson: Reflects CST time zone boundaries defined by political bodies, primarily intended for use with computer programs and operating systems

America/Bahia_Banderas

America/Belize

America/Chicago

America/Chihuahua

America/Costa_Rica

America/El_Salvador

America/Guatemala

America/Indiana/Knox

America/Indiana/Tell_City

America/Knox_IN

America/Managua

America/Matamoros

America/Menominee

America/Merida

America/Mexico_City

America/Monterrey

America/North_Dakota/Beulah

America/North_Dakota/Center

America/North_Dakota/New_Salem

America/Ojinaga

America/Rainy_River

America/Rankin_Inlet

America/Regina

America/Resolute

America/Swift_Current

America/Tegucigalpa

America/Winnipeg

CST6CDT

Canada/Central

Canada/Saskatchewan

Mexico/General

US/Central

US/Indiana-Starke

CST Abbreviation: Several time zones share CST abbreviation and it could refer to these time zones

Central Standard Time - UTC -6

China Standard Time - UTC +8

Cuba Standard Time - UTC -5

Colombia Standard Time - UTC -5

Time zones with the GMT -6 offset:

CST - Central Standard Time

CT - Central Time

MDT - Mountain Daylight Time

EAST - Easter Island Standard Time

GALT - Galapagos Time

S - Sierra Time Zone