What is PST in BRT?
Brasília Time is 4 hours ahead
Pacific Time is on UTC−7:00 and Brasília Time is on UTC−3:00 right now. Pacific Time is on daylight saving, so its clocks read PDT. The gap changes during the year — see below.
- Time in Los Angeles
- 7:56 pm
- Time in São Paulo
- 11:56 pm
- Difference
- +4 h
- Next clock change
- November 1, 2026
Convert a time
BRT — Brasília Time
11:00 pm
Tue
When the difference changes
Pacific Time and Brasília 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 – November 1, 2026Brasília Time is 4 hours ahead
- November 1, 2026 – March 14, 2027Brasília Time is 5 hours ahead
- March 14, 2027 – onwardsBrasília Time is 4 hours ahead
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
Pacific Time
Clocks go back one hour at 2am local time, becoming PST.
Brasília Time
Brasília Time stays on BRT all year, so its offset from UTC never moves.
PST to BRT conversion table
Every hour of Tuesday, September 22, 2026, converted from Pacific Time to Brasília Time. 4 of the 24 hours fall on a different calendar day in São Paulo, which is marked.
- 12:00 am PDT
- 4:00 am BRT
- 1:00 am PDT
- 5:00 am BRT
- 2:00 am PDT
- 6:00 am BRT
- 3:00 am PDT
- 7:00 am BRT
- 4:00 am PDT
- 8:00 am BRT
- 5:00 am PDT
- 9:00 am BRT
- 6:00 am PDT
- 10:00 am BRT
- 7:00 am PDT
- 11:00 am BRT
- 8:00 am PDT
- 12:00 pm BRT
- 9:00 am PDT
- 1:00 pm BRT
- 10:00 am PDT
- 2:00 pm BRT
- 11:00 am PDT
- 3:00 pm BRT
- 12:00 pm PDT
- 4:00 pm BRT
- 1:00 pm PDT
- 5:00 pm BRT
- 2:00 pm PDT
- 6:00 pm BRT
- 3:00 pm PDT
- 7:00 pm BRT
- 4:00 pm PDT
- 8:00 pm BRT
- 5:00 pm PDT
- 9:00 pm BRT
- 6:00 pm PDT
- 10:00 pm BRT
- 7:00 pm PDT
- 11:00 pm BRT
- 8:00 pm PDT
- 12:00 am BRT+1 day
- 9:00 pm PDT
- 1:00 am BRT+1 day
- 10:00 pm PDT
- 2:00 am BRT+1 day
- 11:00 pm PDT
- 3:00 am BRT+1 day
Scheduling between the two
Working hours overlap from 9:00 am to 2:00 pm PDT, which is 1:00 pm to 6:00 pm BRT. 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
Brasília Time (BRT) is used in Rio de Janeiro and Brasília. Brazil ended daylight saving in 2019.