What is EST in PST?
Pacific Time is 3 hours behind
Eastern Time is on UTC−4:00 and Pacific Time is on UTC−7:00 right now. Both are on daylight saving, so their clocks read EDT and PDT. That gap holds all year, because both zones change their clocks together.
- Time in New York
- 8:53 pm
- Time in Los Angeles
- 5:53 pm
- Difference
- −3 h
- Next clock change
- November 1, 2026
Convert a time
PDT — Pacific Time
5:00 pm
Tue
Daylight saving
Eastern Time
Clocks go back one hour at 2am local time, becoming EST.
Pacific Time
Clocks go back one hour at 2am local time, becoming PST.
EST to PST conversion table
Every hour of Tuesday, September 22, 2026, converted from Eastern Time to Pacific Time. 3 of the 24 hours fall on a different calendar day in Los Angeles, which is marked.
- 12:00 am EDT
- 9:00 pm PDT−1 day
- 1:00 am EDT
- 10:00 pm PDT−1 day
- 2:00 am EDT
- 11:00 pm PDT−1 day
- 3:00 am EDT
- 12:00 am PDT
- 4:00 am EDT
- 1:00 am PDT
- 5:00 am EDT
- 2:00 am PDT
- 6:00 am EDT
- 3:00 am PDT
- 7:00 am EDT
- 4:00 am PDT
- 8:00 am EDT
- 5:00 am PDT
- 9:00 am EDT
- 6:00 am PDT
- 10:00 am EDT
- 7:00 am PDT
- 11:00 am EDT
- 8:00 am PDT
- 12:00 pm EDT
- 9:00 am PDT
- 1:00 pm EDT
- 10:00 am PDT
- 2:00 pm EDT
- 11:00 am PDT
- 3:00 pm EDT
- 12:00 pm PDT
- 4:00 pm EDT
- 1:00 pm PDT
- 5:00 pm EDT
- 2:00 pm PDT
- 6:00 pm EDT
- 3:00 pm PDT
- 7:00 pm EDT
- 4:00 pm PDT
- 8:00 pm EDT
- 5:00 pm PDT
- 9:00 pm EDT
- 6:00 pm PDT
- 10:00 pm EDT
- 7:00 pm PDT
- 11:00 pm EDT
- 8:00 pm PDT
Scheduling between the two
Working hours overlap from 12:00 pm to 6:00 pm EDT, which is 9:00 am to 3:00 pm PDT. Anything inside that window falls in the normal working day at both ends.
Eastern Time (EDT) is used in Toronto, Atlanta, Miami, Detroit and most of the US east coast
Pacific Time (PDT) is used in San Francisco, Seattle, Las Vegas and Vancouver