PST to BST: PST is 8 hours behind BST
Pacific Time is 8 hours behind UK Time right now. It is 1:13 pm PDT in Pacific and 9:13 pm BST in UK.
Convert a specific time from PST to BST
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 BST?
UK Time is 8 hours ahead of Pacific Time. To go from PST to BST you add 8 hours. That gap is not fixed. Across 2026 the distance between these two zones takes 2 different values, from 7 hours to 8 hours, because the two sides change their clocks on different dates. This page recomputes it rather than assuming.
PST to BST conversion table
Every hour of Wednesday, September 23, 2026 in Pacific, with the matching reading in UK. 8 of the 24 hours land on a different calendar date in UK, which is the part people get wrong when they schedule across this pair.
| PST | PST 24h | BST | BST 24h | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12:00 am | 00:00 | 8:00 am | 08:00 | same day |
| 1:00 am | 01:00 | 9:00 am | 09:00 | same day |
| 2:00 am | 02:00 | 10:00 am | 10:00 | same day |
| 3:00 am | 03:00 | 11:00 am | 11:00 | same day |
| 4:00 am | 04:00 | 12:00 pm | 12:00 | same day |
| 5:00 am | 05:00 | 1:00 pm | 13:00 | same day |
| 6:00 am | 06:00 | 2:00 pm | 14:00 | same day |
| 7:00 am | 07:00 | 3:00 pm | 15:00 | same day |
| 8:00 am | 08:00 | 4:00 pm | 16:00 | same day |
| 9:00 am | 09:00 | 5:00 pm | 17:00 | same day |
| 10:00 am | 10:00 | 6:00 pm | 18:00 | same day |
| 11:00 am | 11:00 | 7:00 pm | 19:00 | same day |
| 12:00 pm | 12:00 | 8:00 pm | 20:00 | same day |
| 1:00 pm | 13:00 | 9:00 pm | 21:00 | same day |
| 2:00 pm | 14:00 | 10:00 pm | 22:00 | same day |
| 3:00 pm | 15:00 | 11:00 pm | 23:00 | same day |
| 4:00 pm | 16:00 | 12:00 am | 00:00 | the next day |
| 5:00 pm | 17:00 | 1:00 am | 01:00 | the next day |
| 6:00 pm | 18:00 | 2:00 am | 02:00 | the next day |
| 7:00 pm | 19:00 | 3:00 am | 03:00 | the next day |
| 8:00 pm | 20:00 | 4:00 am | 04:00 | the next day |
| 9:00 pm | 21:00 | 5:00 am | 05:00 | the next day |
| 10:00 pm | 22:00 | 6:00 am | 06:00 | the next day |
| 11:00 pm | 23:00 | 7:00 am | 07:00 | the next day |
What are the best hours to schedule a call between PST and BST?
No hour of the standard 9:00 am to 5:00 pm working day falls inside working hours on both sides. Pacific and UK are 8 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 | BST | Working hours | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7:00 am | 3:00 pm | BST only | early morning in Pacific, afternoon in UK |
| 8:00 am | 4:00 pm | BST only | mid morning in Pacific, afternoon in UK |
| 9:00 am | 5:00 pm | PST only | mid morning in Pacific, evening in UK |
Does daylight saving change PST to BST?
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.
UK Time is currently on BST and changes next on Sunday, October 25, 2026, when the clock falls back from 1:59 am to 1:00 am and the offset moves from UTC+1 to UTC+0.
Because the two sides do not move together, the answer to this conversion changes during the year. The United States changes on the second Sunday in March and the first Sunday in November, while the United Kingdom and European Union change on the last Sunday in March and the last Sunday in October. Those dates are weeks apart, which opens a window each spring and autumn where the usual gap is an hour out. The table above is built for today, not for an average day.
Is PST ahead of or behind BST?
PST is behind BST by 8 hours: when it is 12:00 pm in Pacific, it is 8:00 pm in UK. 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 bst" they nearly always mean the zone rather than the literal winter offset, so this page resolves PST to America/Los_Angeles and BST to Europe/London and applies whichever offset is genuinely in force on the day.
Pacific Time covers Los Angeles, San Francisco, Seattle and Vancouver. UK Time covers London, Cardiff, Edinburgh and Dublin. The identifiers behind them are America/Los_Angeles and Europe/London, which is what any calendar or scheduling system should be storing rather than a fixed number of hours.
Questions
- What is PST in BST?
- PST is 8 hours behind BST. 9:00 am PST is 5:00 pm BST.
- How many hours ahead is BST of PST?
- BST is 8 hours ahead of PST. That varies across the year, between 7 hours and 8 hours.
- What time is it in UK right now?
- 9:13 pm BST on Wednesday, September 23, 2026.
- When can Pacific and UK meet during working hours?
- There is no shared working hour. The closest fit is 7:00 am PST, which is 3:00 pm BST.
- Does this account for daylight saving?
- Yes. Every reading is computed from the IANA database for the actual date, so PDT and BST are the abbreviations genuinely in force today rather than a fixed assumption.
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