What is NZST in PST?
Pacific Time is 19 hours behind
New Zealand Time is on UTC+12:00 and Pacific Time is on UTC−7:00 right now. Pacific Time is on daylight saving, so its clocks read PDT. The gap changes during the year — see below.
- Time in Auckland
- 2:15 pm
- Time in Los Angeles
- 7:15 pm
- Difference
- −19 h
- Next clock change
- September 26, 2026
Convert a time
PDT — Pacific Time
7:00 pm
Tue, the previous day
When the difference changes
New Zealand Time and Pacific 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, 2026Pacific Time is 19 hours behind
- September 26, 2026 – November 1, 2026Pacific Time is 20 hours behind
- November 1, 2026 – March 14, 2027Pacific Time is 21 hours behind
- March 14, 2027 – April 3, 2027Pacific Time is 20 hours behind
- April 3, 2027 – September 25, 2027Pacific Time is 19 hours behind
- September 25, 2027 – onwardsPacific Time is 20 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.
Pacific Time
Clocks go back one hour at 2am local time, becoming PST.
NZST to PST conversion table
Every hour of Wednesday, September 23, 2026, converted from New Zealand Time to Pacific Time. 19 of the 24 hours fall on a different calendar day in Los Angeles, which is marked.
- 12:00 am NZST
- 5:00 am PDT−1 day
- 1:00 am NZST
- 6:00 am PDT−1 day
- 2:00 am NZST
- 7:00 am PDT−1 day
- 3:00 am NZST
- 8:00 am PDT−1 day
- 4:00 am NZST
- 9:00 am PDT−1 day
- 5:00 am NZST
- 10:00 am PDT−1 day
- 6:00 am NZST
- 11:00 am PDT−1 day
- 7:00 am NZST
- 12:00 pm PDT−1 day
- 8:00 am NZST
- 1:00 pm PDT−1 day
- 9:00 am NZST
- 2:00 pm PDT−1 day
- 10:00 am NZST
- 3:00 pm PDT−1 day
- 11:00 am NZST
- 4:00 pm PDT−1 day
- 12:00 pm NZST
- 5:00 pm PDT−1 day
- 1:00 pm NZST
- 6:00 pm PDT−1 day
- 2:00 pm NZST
- 7:00 pm PDT−1 day
- 3:00 pm NZST
- 8:00 pm PDT−1 day
- 4:00 pm NZST
- 9:00 pm PDT−1 day
- 5:00 pm NZST
- 10:00 pm PDT−1 day
- 6:00 pm NZST
- 11:00 pm PDT−1 day
- 7:00 pm NZST
- 12:00 am PDT
- 8:00 pm NZST
- 1:00 am PDT
- 9:00 pm NZST
- 2:00 am PDT
- 10:00 pm NZST
- 3:00 am PDT
- 11:00 pm NZST
- 4:00 am PDT
Scheduling between the two
Working hours overlap from 9:00 am to 1:00 pm NZST, which is 2:00 pm to 6:00 pm PDT. Anything inside that window falls in the normal working day at both ends.
Pacific Time (PDT) is used in San Francisco, Seattle, Las Vegas and Vancouver