What is NZST in MST?
Mountain Time is 18 hours behind
New Zealand Time is on UTC+12:00 and Mountain Time is on UTC−6:00 right now. Mountain Time is on daylight saving, so its clocks read MDT. The gap changes during the year — see below.
- Time in Auckland
- 2:15 pm
- Time in Denver
- 8:15 pm
- Difference
- −18 h
- Next clock change
- September 26, 2026
Convert a time
MDT — Mountain Time
8:00 pm
Tue, the previous day
When the difference changes
New Zealand Time and Mountain Time do not change their clocks on the same dates, so the gap between them is not the same all year. Most converters show only today’s figure. These are the periods ahead:
- Now – September 26, 2026Mountain Time is 18 hours behind
- September 26, 2026 – November 1, 2026Mountain Time is 19 hours behind
- November 1, 2026 – March 14, 2027Mountain Time is 20 hours behind
- March 14, 2027 – April 3, 2027Mountain Time is 19 hours behind
- April 3, 2027 – September 25, 2027Mountain Time is 18 hours behind
- September 25, 2027 – onwardsMountain Time is 19 hours behind
Periods shorter than a day are not listed: both zones change at 2am in their own local time, so there are a few hours on each transition date when the gap is briefly something else.
Daylight saving
New Zealand Time
Clocks go forward one hour at 2am local time, becoming NZDT.
Mountain Time
Clocks go back one hour at 2am local time, becoming MST.
NZST to MST conversion table
Every hour of Wednesday, September 23, 2026, converted from New Zealand Time to Mountain Time. 18 of the 24 hours fall on a different calendar day in Denver, which is marked.
- 12:00 am NZST
- 6:00 am MDT−1 day
- 1:00 am NZST
- 7:00 am MDT−1 day
- 2:00 am NZST
- 8:00 am MDT−1 day
- 3:00 am NZST
- 9:00 am MDT−1 day
- 4:00 am NZST
- 10:00 am MDT−1 day
- 5:00 am NZST
- 11:00 am MDT−1 day
- 6:00 am NZST
- 12:00 pm MDT−1 day
- 7:00 am NZST
- 1:00 pm MDT−1 day
- 8:00 am NZST
- 2:00 pm MDT−1 day
- 9:00 am NZST
- 3:00 pm MDT−1 day
- 10:00 am NZST
- 4:00 pm MDT−1 day
- 11:00 am NZST
- 5:00 pm MDT−1 day
- 12:00 pm NZST
- 6:00 pm MDT−1 day
- 1:00 pm NZST
- 7:00 pm MDT−1 day
- 2:00 pm NZST
- 8:00 pm MDT−1 day
- 3:00 pm NZST
- 9:00 pm MDT−1 day
- 4:00 pm NZST
- 10:00 pm MDT−1 day
- 5:00 pm NZST
- 11:00 pm MDT−1 day
- 6:00 pm NZST
- 12:00 am MDT
- 7:00 pm NZST
- 1:00 am MDT
- 8:00 pm NZST
- 2:00 am MDT
- 9:00 pm NZST
- 3:00 am MDT
- 10:00 pm NZST
- 4:00 am MDT
- 11:00 pm NZST
- 5:00 am MDT
Scheduling between the two
Working hours overlap from 9:00 am to 12:00 pm NZST, which is 3:00 pm to 6:00 pm MDT. Anything inside that window falls in the normal working day at both ends.
Mountain Time (MDT) is used in Salt Lake City, Albuquerque and Calgary. Arizona keeps MST all year and does not follow MDT.