EST to PST, from New York to Los Angeles.

EST to PST means turning Eastern time into Pacific time, and the answer is simple most of the year: Pacific is 3 hours behind Eastern. Noon in New York is 9:00 AM in Los Angeles. This page starts from the Eastern side: you type the New York time and read what it is on the West coast. The converter also handles the few hours each spring and autumn when the usual 3 hours is not right, and it keeps EST (UTC-5) and EDT (UTC-4) apart for you.

How to use the EST to PST converter

1. In the left box, EST, type the New York Time and Date. The right box, PST, shows Los Angeles.
2. Under Read EST as and Read PST as, keep the first choices to follow the clocks in New York and Los Angeles. Choose the second choice only for a fixed offset, UTC-5 or UTC-8 all year.
3. Use the Meeting planner to see the hours when New York and Los Angeles are both at work. Work starts and Work ends on the right change what counts as work.
4. Click Print the chart for a one page table from midnight to 11 PM Eastern with the Pacific time beside each hour.
5. Copy result, Copy link and Add to calendar (.ics) send the moment on. A calendar file shows the event at the right time in each person’s own zone.
6. Swap turns the page around to start from Los Angeles. There is also a page written for the West coast side, PST to EST.

Scheduling from the East coast

New York works from about 9 AM to 5 PM. Los Angeles works the same hours three hours later on the clock, so the two days overlap from noon to 5 PM Eastern, which is 9 AM to 2 PM Pacific. That is a window of 5 hours. Anything before noon Eastern lands before 9 AM on the West coast, and anything after 5 PM Eastern is after the East coast working day. Some examples for Tuesday 20 October 2026 in summer, and Tuesday 20 January 2026 in winter:

The three hours stay the same in both seasons because both coasts change their clocks in the same weeks. If you plan a webinar, a product drop or a livestream, a start at 1:00 PM Eastern reaches the West coast at 10:00 AM, a good morning slot for both. A start at 9:00 AM Eastern asks Los Angeles to join at 6:00 AM.

The two odd mornings

New York and Los Angeles both change at 2:00 AM local time, but 2:00 AM in Los Angeles happens three hours after 2:00 AM in New York. For those three hours the gap is not 3. On Sunday 8 March 2026, from 3:00 AM to 6:00 AM Eastern, the gap is 4 hours, because New York has already moved to EDT and Los Angeles is still on PST. On Sunday 1 November 2026, from 1:00 AM to 4:00 AM Eastern, the gap is 2 hours, because New York is back on EST while Los Angeles is still on PDT. The list called When the difference changes shows both moments for this year and next, as two rows on the same date.

EST, EDT and ET

EST is UTC-5 and EDT is UTC-4. In the eastern United States the clock is on EST from the first Sunday in November to the second Sunday in March and on EDT in between. If you write EST in July the letters are wrong but the clock you mean is right, and the converter follows the clock. Write ET in invites so nobody has to guess, and add PT for the Pacific side, for example 1:00 PM ET / 10:00 AM PT.

Common problems

• Reading EST literally in summer. A fixed EST (UTC-5) next to Los Angeles on PDT (UTC-7) is a 2 hour gap, not 3. Pick the matching option under Read EST as if a schedule really means a fixed offset.
• Forgetting that late evening in New York is the same afternoon in Los Angeles, and that 12:00 AM to 2:59 AM Eastern is the previous date on the West coast. Rows in the chart carry a day note when the date differs.
• Counting Phoenix or Honolulu as Pacific. Most of Arizona and all of Hawaii do not change their clocks. See time in Arizona and time in Hawaii.

Sources, checked 18 Oct 2026. The United States rule is in 49 CFR Part 71, section 71.2: standard time moves ahead one hour at 2 a.m. on the second Sunday in March and ends at 2 a.m. on the first Sunday in November. The US Department of Transportation says a state may exempt itself by state law. The offsets and the zone names come from the IANA time zone database (version 2026e), the same data your browser uses.

For the other direction see PST to EST. For other zones, CST to EST and IST to EST.