EST to PST
Convert US Eastern Time (EST/EDT) to US Pacific Time (PST/PDT) and back. Right now Los Angeles is 3 hours behind New York. Daylight saving is applied for the date being converted, not for today.
| Zone | 00 | 01 | 02 | 03 | 04 | 05 | 06 | 07 | 08 | 09 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | Copy |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 00 | 01 | 02 | 03 | 04 | 05 | 06 | 07 | 08 | 09 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | |
| Los Angeles | 21 -1d | 22 -1d | 23 -1d | 00 | 01 | 02 | 03 | 04 | 05 | 06 | 07 | 08 | 09 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | |
| UTC | 04 | 05 | 06 | 07 | 08 | 09 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 00 +1d | 01 +1d | 02 +1d | 03 +1d | |
09–17 working hours 07–09 shoulder 23–06 night Hover an hour to convert it · click to pin it, then copy any row
How far apart New York and Los Angeles really are
Los Angeles is 3 hours behind New York, and that holds for every day of the year. Both zones observe daylight saving, but they shift together, so their relative distance never changes.
Working-hours overlap
Treating 09:00–17:00 as the working day in both places, there are 5 hours of overlap: 12:00 pm, 1:00 pm, 2:00 pm, 3:00 pm, 4:00 pm in New York, which is 9:00 am, 10:00 am, 11:00 am, 12:00 pm, 1:00 pm in Los Angeles. Those are the slots to aim for; everything else costs someone their evening.
New York to Los Angeles, hour by hour
Every hour of New York's day and the matching local time in Los Angeles, for 22 Oct 2026. Rows where both cities are inside working hours are marked.
| New York (EST) | Los Angeles (PST) | Both working? |
|---|---|---|
| 12:00 am | 9:00 pm previous day | — |
| 1:00 am | 10:00 pm previous day | — |
| 2:00 am | 11:00 pm previous day | — |
| 3:00 am | 12:00 am | — |
| 4:00 am | 1:00 am | — |
| 5:00 am | 2:00 am | — |
| 6:00 am | 3:00 am | — |
| 7:00 am | 4:00 am | — |
| 8:00 am | 5:00 am | — |
| 9:00 am | 6:00 am | — |
| 10:00 am | 7:00 am | — |
| 11:00 am | 8:00 am | — |
| 12:00 pm | 9:00 am | Yes |
| 1:00 pm | 10:00 am | Yes |
| 2:00 pm | 11:00 am | Yes |
| 3:00 pm | 12:00 pm | Yes |
| 4:00 pm | 1:00 pm | Yes |
| 5:00 pm | 2:00 pm | — |
| 6:00 pm | 3:00 pm | — |
| 7:00 pm | 4:00 pm | — |
| 8:00 pm | 5:00 pm | — |
| 9:00 pm | 6:00 pm | — |
| 10:00 pm | 7:00 pm | — |
| 11:00 pm | 8:00 pm | — |
Why you should store the zone, not the offset
Even though this pair happens to keep a constant gap today, that is a property of current legislation rather than a guarantee. Store America/New_York and America/Los_Angeles — the IANA
identifiers — alongside any time a user entered locally. The identifier
carries the zone's entire history of rule changes, so a date from 1995
converts with the rules that were in force in 1995.
Internally, keep the instant as a Unix timestamp. The epoch value is identical in New York, Los Angeles and everywhere else; the zone is applied only at the edges, when a human needs to read it. The current Unix timestamp is at the top of this page, and the zones versus offsets guide explains why the distinction bites.
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Frequently asked questions
What time is it in Los Angeles when it is 9:00 am in New York?
9:00 am EST is 6:00 am in Los Angeles. The full hour-by-hour table on this page covers every other hour of the day.
How many hours ahead is PST of EST?
Los Angeles is 3 hours behind New York, and that gap holds all year — neither zone shifts relative to the other, so a single number is safe to remember for this pair.
Is PST to EST the same conversion in reverse?
Yes — subtract instead of add. If Los Angeles is 3 hours behind New York, then New York is the same interval behind Los Angeles. The grid on this page reads in both directions, which is why /pst-to-est leads here rather than to a separate page.
When can New York and Los Angeles meet during working hours?
There are 5 hours when both cities are inside 09:00–17:00: 12:00 pm EST, 1:00 pm EST, 2:00 pm EST, 3:00 pm EST, 4:00 pm EST. The green cells in the grid above show the same thing visually.
Does New York or Los Angeles observe daylight saving time?
New York does: in 2026 it moves to -04:00 and back to -05:00. Los Angeles does: in 2026 it moves to -07:00 and back to -08:00.