Time until Honkai Star Rail 3.8 update releases

The Honkai Star Rail 3.8 update is all set to be released globally on December 17, 2025. Apart from debuting a new character Dahlia, rerun banners for other popular 5-star characters such as Firefly, Fugue, and Lingsha will also be available for players to pull on. This upcoming version will mark the end of the 3.x patches, with the game moving on to a new region called Planarcadia in version 4.0.

This article provides detailed information regarding the Honkai Star Rail 3.8 global release timings, across a variety of time zones and servers.

When does Honkai Star Rail 3.8 release worldwide?

As announced by HoYoverse, the Honkai Star Rail 3.8 update will go live across all servers on December 17, 2025, at 11 am (UTC +8). As per standard pattern, there will be a scheduled downtime and maintenance period prior to the launch of this update, during which developers will perform bug fixes and update the game to the latest version. Since you will not be able to login to the game for this duration, it is recommended that players schedule their in-game tasks accordingly before all servers are taken offline for maintenance.

Even though Honkai Star Rail 3.8 will be releasing simultaneously globally, players might experience discrepancies in the release timings due to differences in time zones. Hence, you can keep an eye on the countdown below to track the remaining time till the Honkai Star Rail 3.8 update goes live in your region:

Additionally, here is a list of the global release schedule for the Honkai Star Rail 3.8 update across a variety of time zones, which players can refer to:

America

• Pacific Standard Time (PST): December 16, 2025, at 7 pm
• Mountain Standard Time (MST): December 16, 2025, at 8 pm
• Central Standard Time (CST): December 16, 2025, at 9 pm
• Eastern Standard Time (EST): December 16, 2025, at 10 pm

Europe

• Western European Time (WET): December 17, 2025, at 3 am
• Central European Time (CET): December 17, 2025, at 4 am
• Eastern European Time (EET): December 17, 2025, at 5 am

Asia

• India Standard Time (IST): December 17, 2025, at 8:30 am
• China Standard Time (CST): December 17, 2025, at 11 am
• Philippine Standard Time (PHT): December 17, 2025, at 11 am
• Japanese Standard Time (JST): December 17, 2025, at 12 pm
• Korea Standard Time (KST): December 17, 2025, at 12 pm

Once maintenance is over, players will once again be able to login to their Honkai Star Rail accounts, and claim compensation worth 600 Stellar Jades, which they will receive in their in-game mailboxes. Banners for 5-star units Dahlia and Firefly (and their signature Light Cones) will also be available once Honkai Star Rail 3.8 goes live.

Also read: All Honkai Star Rail 3.8 QoL optimizations and changes

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Edited by Aishwarya Ghosh