PST to AWST: PST is 15 hours behind AWST
Pacific Time is 15 hours behind Australian Western Time right now. It is 11:19 pm PDT in Pacific and 2:19 pm AWST in Australian Western, which is already the next day there.
Convert a specific time from PST to AWST
Pick any time and date to convert it both ways. The conversion runs in your browser against the real zone rules, so a date inside a daylight saving period gets that period's offset rather than today's.
What is the time difference between PST and AWST?
Australian Western Time is 15 hours ahead of Pacific Time. To go from PST to AWST you add 15 hours. That gap is not fixed. Across 2026 the distance between these two zones takes 2 different values, from 15 hours to 16 hours, because Pacific moves its clocks and Australian Western does not. This page recomputes it rather than assuming.
PST to AWST conversion table
Every hour of Thursday, September 24, 2026 in Pacific, with the matching reading in Australian Western. 15 of the 24 hours land on a different calendar date in Australian Western, which is the part people get wrong when they schedule across this pair.
| PST | PST 24h | AWST | AWST 24h | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12:00 am | 00:00 | 3:00 pm | 15:00 | same day |
| 1:00 am | 01:00 | 4:00 pm | 16:00 | same day |
| 2:00 am | 02:00 | 5:00 pm | 17:00 | same day |
| 3:00 am | 03:00 | 6:00 pm | 18:00 | same day |
| 4:00 am | 04:00 | 7:00 pm | 19:00 | same day |
| 5:00 am | 05:00 | 8:00 pm | 20:00 | same day |
| 6:00 am | 06:00 | 9:00 pm | 21:00 | same day |
| 7:00 am | 07:00 | 10:00 pm | 22:00 | same day |
| 8:00 am | 08:00 | 11:00 pm | 23:00 | same day |
| 9:00 am | 09:00 | 12:00 am | 00:00 | the next day |
| 10:00 am | 10:00 | 1:00 am | 01:00 | the next day |
| 11:00 am | 11:00 | 2:00 am | 02:00 | the next day |
| 12:00 pm | 12:00 | 3:00 am | 03:00 | the next day |
| 1:00 pm | 13:00 | 4:00 am | 04:00 | the next day |
| 2:00 pm | 14:00 | 5:00 am | 05:00 | the next day |
| 3:00 pm | 15:00 | 6:00 am | 06:00 | the next day |
| 4:00 pm | 16:00 | 7:00 am | 07:00 | the next day |
| 5:00 pm | 17:00 | 8:00 am | 08:00 | the next day |
| 6:00 pm | 18:00 | 9:00 am | 09:00 | the next day |
| 7:00 pm | 19:00 | 10:00 am | 10:00 | the next day |
| 8:00 pm | 20:00 | 11:00 am | 11:00 | the next day |
| 9:00 pm | 21:00 | 12:00 pm | 12:00 | the next day |
| 10:00 pm | 22:00 | 1:00 pm | 13:00 | the next day |
| 11:00 pm | 23:00 | 2:00 pm | 14:00 | the next day |
What are the best hours to schedule a call between PST and AWST?
No hour of the standard 9:00 am to 5:00 pm working day falls inside working hours on both sides. Pacific and Australian Western are 15 hours apart, which is too far for an overlap, so somebody has to take a call outside their own working day. The least painful options are below, ranked by how close both sides sit to the middle of the afternoon.
| PST | AWST | Working hours | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4:00 pm | 7:00 am the next day | PST only | afternoon in Pacific, early morning in Australian Western |
| 5:00 pm | 8:00 am the next day | neither side | evening in Pacific, mid morning in Australian Western |
| 6:00 pm | 9:00 am the next day | AWST only | evening in Pacific, mid morning in Australian Western |
Does daylight saving change PST to AWST?
Pacific Time is currently on PDT and changes next on Sunday, November 1, 2026, when the clock falls back from 1:59 am to 1:00 am and the offset moves from UTC-7 to UTC-8.
Australian Western Time does not move its clocks at all, so its UTC+8 offset holds every day of the year.
Because the two sides do not move together, the answer to this conversion changes during the year. For part of the year the gap is 15 hours and for the rest it is 16 hours. The table above is built for today, not for an average day.
Is PST ahead of or behind AWST?
PST is behind AWST by 15 hours: when it is 12:00 pm in Pacific, it is 3:00 am the next day in Australian Western. One wrinkle worth knowing: PST and PDT are two names for the same zone, not two zones. Pacific Time reads PST in winter and PDT in summer. When somebody types "pst to awst" they nearly always mean the zone rather than the literal winter offset, so this page resolves PST to America/Los_Angeles and AWST to Australia/Perth and applies whichever offset is genuinely in force on the day.
Pacific Time covers Los Angeles, San Francisco, Seattle and Vancouver. Australian Western Time covers Perth and Western Australia, which stopped moving its clocks in 2009. The identifiers behind them are America/Los_Angeles and Australia/Perth, which is what any calendar or scheduling system should be storing rather than a fixed number of hours.
Questions
- What is PST in AWST?
- PST is 15 hours behind AWST. 9:00 am PST is 12:00 am the next day AWST.
- How many hours ahead is AWST of PST?
- AWST is 15 hours ahead of PST. That varies across the year, between 15 hours and 16 hours.
- What time is it in Australian Western right now?
- 2:19 pm AWST on Friday, September 25, 2026.
- When can Pacific and Australian Western meet during working hours?
- There is no shared working hour. The closest fit is 4:00 pm PST, which is 7:00 am AWST.
- Does this account for daylight saving?
- Yes. Every reading is computed from the IANA database for the actual date, so PDT and AWST are the abbreviations genuinely in force today rather than a fixed assumption.
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