CT – Central Time (Time Zone Abbreviation)

CT – Central Time (Time Zone Abbreviation)

CT – Central Time

Currently observing CDT.


Areas with same time currently (UTC -5).

The term Central Time (CT) is often used to denote the local time in areas observing either Central Daylight Time (CDT) or Central Standard Time (CST).


Central Standard Time is 6 hours behind Coordinated Universal Time (UTC).


Central Daylight Time is 5 hours behind UTC.


In locations observing Daylight Saving Time (DST) during part of the year, Central Time is not static but switches between CDT and CST.

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Where and when is Central Time observed?

North America

U.S. states using CST in the winter and CDT in the summer

• Alabama
  
  
• Arkansas
  
  
• Florida - North-West parts Show
  
  
• Illinois
  
  
• Indiana - these few north-western counties near
  Chicago (Lake, Porter, La Porte, Newton, Jasper, Starke) and these
  south-western counties in Indiana near Evansville Show
  
  
• Iowa
  
  
• Kansas - except these western counties Show
  
  
• Kentucky - Western part Show
  
  
• Louisiana
  
  
• Michigan - A few western counties Show
  
  
• Minnesota
  
  
• Mississippi
  
  
• Missouri
  
  
• Nebraska - Eastern parts Show
  
  
• North Dakota - North and Eastern parts Show
  
  
• Oklahoma
  
  
• South Dakota - Eastern parts Show
  
  
• Tennessee - Western part Show
  
  
• Texas - All, but a few counties in west Show
  
  
• Wisconsin
  
  

Canadian provinces using CST in the winter and CDT in the summer

• Manitoba
  
  
• Ontario - most parts west of 90 West. (Parts east of 90 West is on EST/EDT)
  
  
• Saskatchewan - only Creighton and Denare Beach
  
  

Mexican states using CST in the winter and CDT in the summer

• Aguascalientes
  
  
• Campeche
  
  
• Chiapas
  
  
• Coahuila
  
  
• Colima
  
  
• Distrito Federal
  
  
• Durango
  
  
• Guanajuato
  
  
• Guerro
  
  
• Hidalgo
  
  
• Jalisco
  
  
• León
  
  
• Michoacán
  
  
• Morelos
  
  
• México
  
  
• Nuevo León
  
  
• Oaxaca
  
  
• Puebla
  
  
• Querétaro
  
  
• Quintana Roo
  
  
• San Luis Potosí
  
  
• Tabasco
  
  
• Tamaulipas
  
  
• Tlaxcala
  
  
• Veracruz
  
  
• Yucatán
  
  
• Zacatecas
  
  

CST all year round

Some locations, such as the ones below don't switch and are in CST all year long.

North America

Canadian provinces using CST all year

• Ontario - a few communities Show
• Saskatchewan - most of it Show

Central America

Central American countries using CST all year

• Belize
• Costa Rica
• El Salvador
• Guatemala
• Honduras
• Nicaragua