Central Standard Time (US) to Mountain Standard Time, with the offset for today's date rather than an average.
MST time
Mountain Standard Time is behind Central Standard Time (US) — noon in CST is 11:00 am in MDT
CDT todayUTC-05:00
MDT todayUTC-06:00
Working-hour overlap7 h
Common meeting hours converted from CST to MST
CST (Central Standard Time (US))
MST (Mountain Standard Time)
Working hours in both?
7:00 am
6:00 am
No
8:00 am
7:00 am
No
9:00 am
8:00 am
No
10:00 am
9:00 am
Yes
11:00 am
10:00 am
Yes
12:00 pm
11:00 am
Yes
1:00 pm
12:00 pm
Yes
2:00 pm
1:00 pm
Yes
3:00 pm
2:00 pm
Yes
4:00 pm
3:00 pm
Yes
5:00 pm
4:00 pm
No
6:00 pm
5:00 pm
No
7:00 pm
6:00 pm
No
8:00 pm
7:00 pm
No
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Which zone this page means. CST means US Central Standard Time (UTC-6) and also China Standard Time (UTC+8) — fourteen hours apart. This page means the US zone. For the Chinese zone see China Standard Time. MST is standard time only; MDT (UTC-6) applies from March to November. Arizona stays on MST all year.
CST is ahead of MST by 1 hours today
On 28 August 2026, Central Standard Time (US) is on CDT at
UTC-05:00 and Mountain Standard Time is on MDT at
UTC-06:00. The gap between them is 1 hours, with MST behind. So 9:00 am in CST is
8:00 am in MST, and 5:00 pm in CST is
4:00 pm in MST. Going the other way, see MST to CST.
The gap is not constant, and that is the part that catches people out
Central Standard Time (US) is currently observing daylight saving and changes next on 1 November 2026, when clocks go back an hour.Mountain Standard Time is currently observing daylight saving and changes next on 1 November 2026.
When you can actually both be at work
Taking a working day as 9:00 am to 5:00 pm local at each end, there
are7 overlapping hours
in a normal day. In CST that window runs from 10:00 am to 5:00 pm, which is 9:00 am to 4:00 pm in MST. Anything outside it needs one side to start early or finish late.
Zone rules are set by legislation and change, sometimes at short notice. This page is
built against tzdata 2026a, last reviewed
2026-08-18. Quarterly. Zone rules change by legislation, sometimes at short notice. Version and review date are shown on every zone page. The converter above reads
your browser's own copy of the zone database, so if a rule has changed since this page was built the
live answer follows the new rule — and so does everything above, which is worked out from the same
database when you open the page.
Every convention used above — whether the start date counts, how month ends are
clamped, which holidays close an office — is written out on the
methodology page, including the daylight-saving rules behind the 1-hour gap above.
The current offset is shown at the top of this page. It is computed for today's date rather than quoted as an average, because the two regions change their clocks on different dates and the gap is different for a few weeks each year.
Is CST the same as Central Standard Time (US) all year?
Not necessarily. Standard time and summer time are separate zones with separate abbreviations, so much of the year the technically correct abbreviation is the daylight one. The page states which is in force on today's date.
When do the clocks change in these zones?
The next change date for each zone is shown in the result panel, along with what the offset becomes afterwards.
What is a good meeting time between CST and MST?
The business-hours overlap window is shown below the converter. Where there is no overlap the page says so rather than suggesting an impossible time.
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