New York to Hong Kong Time

New York to Hong Kong conversion chart

Every full hour of Tuesday, October 13, 2026 in New York, and the time in Hong Kong. Pick another date in the converter and the chart follows.

Time difference over the year

The gap between New York and Hong Kong for the next 12 months, with clock changes on both sides taken into account:

• Oct 13, 2026 to Oct 31, 2026: Hong Kong is 12 hours ahead of New York
• Nov 1, 2026 to Mar 13, 2027: Hong Kong is 13 hours ahead of New York
• Mar 14, 2027 to Oct 12, 2027: Hong Kong is 12 hours ahead of New York

Daylight saving time in New York and Hong Kong

New York turns the clocks forward from EST to EDT at 2:00 AM on the second Sunday in March and back at 2:00 AM on the first Sunday in November, a schedule set by the Energy Policy Act of 2005. In 2026 the changes fall on March 8 and November 1, in 2027 on March 14 and November 7.

Hong Kong stays on HKT (UTC+8) all year: Hong Kong last used summer time in 1979.

The gap takes 2 values across 2026 and 2027: 13 hours, 12 hours. 12 hours holds on most days; the highlighted rows are the 254 days with another gap, because one side has changed its clocks and the other has not:

Office hours that overlap

With a 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM workday in both cities, this is the shared window for each gap of the year:

• 13 hours apart (EST with HKT), 127 days of 2026: No shared office time. When New York starts work at 9:00 AM, it is 10:00 PM in Hong Kong; when Hong Kong starts at 9:00 AM, it is 8:00 PM the day before in New York.
• 12 hours apart (EDT with HKT), 238 days of 2026: No shared office time. When New York starts work at 9:00 AM, it is 9:00 PM in Hong Kong; when Hong Kong starts at 9:00 AM, it is 9:00 PM the day before in New York.

Which time zones New York and Hong Kong use

New York is on Eastern Time (EST in winter, EDT in summer), which is used in New York, Washington, Miami and Atlanta. Hong Kong is on Hong Kong Time (HKT), used in all of Hong Kong, on UTC+8 all year.

Comparing more than two places? Add as many cities as you need in the time zone converter, or find a slot that works for everyone with the meeting planner. For timestamps from logs or APIs, the Unix timestamp converter turns them into readable dates.

Sources

The clock change rules above come from these pages. The dates, the gap table and the office hours are computed from them and checked against the time zone data at build time.

• NIST: Daylight Saving Time rules
• timeanddate.com: clock changes in New York
• Hong Kong Observatory: Summer Time in Hong Kong
• timeanddate.com: time zone in Hong Kong

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Built by Tobias Kurth, designer. Updated October 13, 2026.

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