CST to EST Converter: Central Time to Eastern Time

A time in Central Time (Chicago) in Eastern Time (New York), on any date: 1 hour ahead of.

Runs entirely in your browser

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Through the day

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Eastern Time is 1 hour ahead of Central Time all year: both change their clocks together, or neither does.

The converter above opens at 3 pm in Chicago today; change the date or the time and the New York time follows, with the whole day hour by hour beneath. On 15 June, 3 pm in Chicago is 4 PM in New York.

How to use it

  1. Pick the date and the time in Chicago.
  2. Read the time in New York.
  3. Use the table for the rest of the day.

Questions

What is the time difference between CST and EST?

Eastern Time is 1 hour ahead of Central Time.

What is 3 pm CST in EST?

4 PM on 15 June. For another date, set it above: daylight saving can move it by an hour.

Is anything sent anywhere?

No. The conversion happens in this tab and the page works offline.

Other conversions

The same converter, opened on another pair. Any zone is in the lists on each.

Your data stays on your device

Everything above runs inside your browser as WebAssembly compiled from Rust. Nothing you type is uploaded, logged or stored on a server. You can load this page once, go offline, and it still works.

This page makes no requests at all, to anywhere. That is not a promise in the copy: it is a Content-Security-Policy header your browser enforces, and connect-src on it is none. Open the network tab and watch nothing happen.