PST Time Now: Current Pacific Time

PST or PDT?

In winter Los Angeles runs on PST, UTC−8. On the second Sunday in March the clocks spring forward to PDT, and on the first Sunday in November they fall back again.

Invitations often say PST even in summer. Between March 8 and November 1, 2026, the right label is PDT.

Where Pacific Time is used

California and Washington use Pacific Time, as do most of Nevada and Oregon and the northern Idaho panhandle. In Canada, most of British Columbia uses it, and in Mexico, Baja California.

Good to know

At 9 AM in Los Angeles it is already noon in New York, so West Coast offices start their day halfway through the East Coast one. Many live US events are scheduled for the evening Eastern, which lands in the afternoon here.

Winter and summer gaps

January and July give the same gaps. For two or three weeks in March and about a week around the start of November they are an hour different, since the US moves its clocks on its own Sundays, not on Europe's.

Office hours that overlap

Los Angeles shares five hours with New York. Calls to New York fit best first thing in the morning. The working day here never meets London's: a 9 AM start in London is 1:00 AM in Los Angeles.

Pacific Time against other zones

Here is the time in each zone at noon in Los Angeles today. Anything marked next day has already passed midnight there.

Convert PST to another zone

To line up more than two places, try the time zone converter and meeting planner.

Related pages

• The time now in every zone
• When do the clocks go back?
• When do the clocks go forward?
• Military time converter