PST to EST: PST is 3 hours behind EST
Pacific Time is 3 hours behind Eastern Time, on every day of the year. It is 2:03 pm PDT in Pacific and 5:03 pm EDT in Eastern.
Convert a specific time from PST to EST
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 EST?
Eastern Time is 3 hours ahead of Pacific Time. To go from PST to EST you add 3 hours. That gap holds on all 365 days of 2026: both zones move their clocks, but on the same dates and in the same direction, so the distance between them never changes.
PST to EST conversion table
Every hour of Thursday, September 24, 2026 in Pacific, with the matching reading in Eastern. 3 of the 24 hours land on a different calendar date in Eastern, which is the part people get wrong when they schedule across this pair.
| PST | PST 24h | EST | EST 24h | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12:00 am | 00:00 | 3:00 am | 03:00 | same day |
| 1:00 am | 01:00 | 4:00 am | 04:00 | same day |
| 2:00 am | 02:00 | 5:00 am | 05:00 | same day |
| 3:00 am | 03:00 | 6:00 am | 06:00 | same day |
| 4:00 am | 04:00 | 7:00 am | 07:00 | same day |
| 5:00 am | 05:00 | 8:00 am | 08:00 | same day |
| 6:00 am | 06:00 | 9:00 am | 09:00 | same day |
| 7:00 am | 07:00 | 10:00 am | 10:00 | same day |
| 8:00 am | 08:00 | 11:00 am | 11:00 | same day |
| 9:00 am | 09:00 | 12:00 pm | 12:00 | same day |
| 10:00 am | 10:00 | 1:00 pm | 13:00 | same day |
| 11:00 am | 11:00 | 2:00 pm | 14:00 | same day |
| 12:00 pm | 12:00 | 3:00 pm | 15:00 | same day |
| 1:00 pm | 13:00 | 4:00 pm | 16:00 | same day |
| 2:00 pm | 14:00 | 5:00 pm | 17:00 | same day |
| 3:00 pm | 15:00 | 6:00 pm | 18:00 | same day |
| 4:00 pm | 16:00 | 7:00 pm | 19:00 | same day |
| 5:00 pm | 17:00 | 8:00 pm | 20:00 | same day |
| 6:00 pm | 18:00 | 9:00 pm | 21:00 | same day |
| 7:00 pm | 19:00 | 10:00 pm | 22:00 | same day |
| 8:00 pm | 20:00 | 11:00 pm | 23:00 | same day |
| 9:00 pm | 21:00 | 12:00 am | 00:00 | the next day |
| 10:00 pm | 22:00 | 1:00 am | 01:00 | the next day |
| 11:00 pm | 23:00 | 2:00 am | 02:00 | the next day |
What are the best hours to schedule a call between PST and EST?
5 hours of the standard 9:00 am to 5:00 pm working day line up in both zones, from 9:00 am PST to 2:00 pm PST. In Eastern that window reads 12:00 pm to 5:00 pm. Outside it, one side is either not yet at their desk or already gone.
| PST | EST | Working hours | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9:00 am | 12:00 pm | both sides | mid morning in Pacific, noon in Eastern |
| 10:00 am | 1:00 pm | both sides | mid morning in Pacific, afternoon in Eastern |
| 11:00 am | 2:00 pm | both sides | mid morning in Pacific, afternoon in Eastern |
| 12:00 pm | 3:00 pm | both sides | noon in Pacific, afternoon in Eastern |
| 1:00 pm | 4:00 pm | both sides | afternoon in Pacific, afternoon in Eastern |
Does daylight saving change PST to EST?
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.
Eastern Time is currently on EDT 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-4 to UTC-5.
Is PST ahead of or behind EST?
PST is behind EST by 3 hours: when it is 12:00 pm in Pacific, it is 3:00 pm in Eastern. 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 est" they nearly always mean the zone rather than the literal winter offset, so this page resolves PST to America/Los_Angeles and EST to America/New_York and applies whichever offset is genuinely in force on the day.
Pacific Time covers Los Angeles, San Francisco, Seattle and Vancouver. Eastern Time covers New York, Toronto, Atlanta and Miami. The identifiers behind them are America/Los_Angeles and America/New_York, which is what any calendar or scheduling system should be storing rather than a fixed number of hours.
Questions
- What is PST in EST?
- PST is 3 hours behind EST. 9:00 am PST is 12:00 pm EST.
- How many hours ahead is EST of PST?
- EST is 3 hours ahead of PST.
- What time is it in Eastern right now?
- 5:03 pm EDT on Thursday, September 24, 2026.
- When can Pacific and Eastern meet during working hours?
- Between 9:00 am and 2:00 pm PST, which is 12:00 pm to 5:00 pm EST.
- Does this account for daylight saving?
- Yes. Every reading is computed from the IANA database for the actual date, so PDT and EDT are the abbreviations genuinely in force today rather than a fixed assumption.
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