Time zone · Asia
CST
Taipei Standard Time
Taipei Standard Time (CST) keeps things simple across Taiwan with a steady UTC+08:00 year-round—no daylight saving adjustments to worry about. Whether you're scheduling meetings across Asia-Pacific or catching a late-night Taipei street-food run, the clock stays predictable and easy to live with.
Thursday, October 15, 2026
Current offset
UTC+08:00
Standard · CST
Daylight saving
Not observed
Year-round standard time
IANA zones
1
None observe daylight saving
DST offset
—
No summer variant
About CST
A fixed, year-round offset.
Taipei Standard Time (CST) keeps things simple across Taiwan with a steady UTC+08:00 year-round—no daylight saving adjustments to worry about. Whether you're scheduling meetings across Asia-Pacific or catching a late-night Taipei street-food run, the clock stays predictable and easy to live with.
IANA zones · the technical identifiers
The zone that resolve to CST.
For software, always store the IANA identifier — never the abbreviation alone. The database keeps these zones distinct because their rules can, and historically did, diverge.
Cities across CST
Local time, city by city.
6 cities
Where CST is used
One country.
Same offset · UTC+08:00
Other zones at UTC+08:00 right now.
These named zones share CST's offset today. When daylight saving rules differ, they drift apart for part of the year.
Convert
CST to the world's clocks.
Frequently asked questions
Common questions about CST, daylight saving, and how to handle it in software. Can't find what you need? Email [email protected].
- Does Taiwan observe daylight saving time?
- No. Taiwan permanently discontinued daylight saving in 1979, and Taipei Standard Time now stays fixed at UTC+08:00 all year long.
- Which regions share CST with Taipei?
- The abbreviation CST is notoriously ambiguous—it also refers to Central Standard Time in North America (UTC−06:00) and China Standard Time (UTC+08:00). Taipei Standard Time covers Taiwan only.
- How does Taiwan's time compare to Hong Kong and Shanghai?
- All three—Taipei, Hong Kong, and mainland China's Beijing Time—run UTC+08:00 permanently without DST, making real-time collaboration across those hubs effortless.
- When did CST become permanent in Taiwan?
- Taiwan's last daylight saving period ran from July 1 to September 30, 1979. It has stayed on UTC+08:00 ever since.
- What does a no-DST timezone mean for travelers?
- Visiting Taipei means one less thing to track: you won't experience the spring-forward or fall-back confusion, and flight connections to neighboring Asia cities don't involve offset surprises either.
- Is Taiwan unique in its part of Asia for not using DST?
- It's in good company—Japan, South Korea, Singapore, the Philippines, and most Southeast Asian nations also stay on a fixed offset year-round.
Source: IANA tzdb2026d · Reviewed
Free · Developer API
This time zone, as JSON.
Its defining offset, DST status and member counts, from one endpoint.
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