Pacific Standard Time to Eastern Standard Time, with the offset for today's date rather than an average.
EST time
Eastern Standard Time is ahead of Pacific Standard Time — noon in PST is 3:00 pm in EDT
PDT todayUTC-07:00
EDT todayUTC-04:00
Working-hour overlap5 h
Common meeting hours converted from PST to EST
PST (Pacific Standard Time)
EST (Eastern Standard Time)
Working hours in both?
7:00 am
10:00 am
No
8:00 am
11:00 am
No
9:00 am
12:00 pm
Yes
10:00 am
1:00 pm
Yes
11:00 am
2:00 pm
Yes
12:00 pm
3:00 pm
Yes
1:00 pm
4:00 pm
Yes
2:00 pm
5:00 pm
No
3:00 pm
6:00 pm
No
4:00 pm
7:00 pm
No
5:00 pm
8:00 pm
No
6:00 pm
9:00 pm
No
7:00 pm
10:00 pm
No
8:00 pm
11:00 pm
No
This calculator needs JavaScript to recalculate. The answer above was
worked out on 19 August 2026 and is correct for
that date; the site rebuilds every morning.
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· conventions last checked
Which zone this page means. PST is standard time only. From the second Sunday in March to the first Sunday in November the Pacific zone is on PDT (UTC-7). Most people write PST year-round. EST is standard time only; EDT (UTC-4) applies from March to November.
PST is behind EST by 3 hours today
On 19 August 2026, Pacific Standard Time is on PDT at
UTC-07:00 and Eastern Standard Time is on EDT at
UTC-04:00. The gap between them is
3 hours, with EST
ahead. So 9:00 am in PST is
12:00 pm in EST, and 5:00 pm in PST is
8:00 pm in EST. Going the other way, see EST to PST.
The gap is not constant, and that is the part that catches people out
Pacific Standard Time is currently observing daylight saving and changes next on 1 November 2026, when clocks go back an hour. Eastern Standard Time is currently observing daylight saving and changes next on 1 November 2026.
When you can actually both be at work
Taking a working day as 9:00 am to 5:00 pm local at each end, there
are 5 overlapping hours
in a normal day. In PST that window runs from 9:00 am to
2:00 pm, which is 12:00 pm to
5:00 pm in EST. Anything outside it needs
one side to start early or finish late.
Zone rules are set by legislation and change, sometimes at short notice. This page is
built against tzdata 2026a, last reviewed
2026-08-18. Quarterly. Zone rules change by legislation, sometimes at short notice. Version and review date are shown on every zone page. The converter above reads
your browser's own copy of the zone database, so if a rule has changed since this page was built the
live answer follows the new rule.
Every convention used above — whether the start date counts, how month ends are
clamped, which holidays close an office — is written out on the
methodology page, including the daylight-saving rules behind the 3-hour gap above.
The current offset is shown at the top of this page. It is computed for today's date rather than quoted as an average, because the two regions change their clocks on different dates and the gap is different for a few weeks each year.
Is PST the same as Pacific Standard Time all year?
Not necessarily. Standard time and summer time are separate zones with separate abbreviations, so much of the year the technically correct abbreviation is the daylight one. The page states which is in force on today's date.
When do the clocks change in these zones?
The next change date for each zone is shown in the result panel, along with what the offset becomes afterwards.
What is a good meeting time between PST and EST?
The business-hours overlap window is shown below the converter. Where there is no overlap the page says so rather than suggesting an impossible time.