PST to UTC: PST is 7 hours behind UTC
Pacific Time is 7 hours behind Coordinated Universal Time right now. It is 12:37 pm PDT in Pacific and 7:37 pm UTC in UTC.
Convert a specific time from PST to UTC
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 UTC?
Coordinated Universal Time is 7 hours ahead of Pacific Time. To go from PST to UTC you add 7 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 Pacific moves its clocks and UTC does not. This page recomputes it rather than assuming.
PST to UTC conversion table
Every hour of Wednesday, September 23, 2026 in Pacific, with the matching reading in UTC. 7 of the 24 hours land on a different calendar date in UTC, which is the part people get wrong when they schedule across this pair.
| PST | PST 24h | UTC | UTC 24h | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12:00 am | 00:00 | 7:00 am | 07:00 | same day |
| 1:00 am | 01:00 | 8:00 am | 08:00 | same day |
| 2:00 am | 02:00 | 9:00 am | 09:00 | same day |
| 3:00 am | 03:00 | 10:00 am | 10:00 | same day |
| 4:00 am | 04:00 | 11:00 am | 11:00 | same day |
| 5:00 am | 05:00 | 12:00 pm | 12:00 | same day |
| 6:00 am | 06:00 | 1:00 pm | 13:00 | same day |
| 7:00 am | 07:00 | 2:00 pm | 14:00 | same day |
| 8:00 am | 08:00 | 3:00 pm | 15:00 | same day |
| 9:00 am | 09:00 | 4:00 pm | 16:00 | same day |
| 10:00 am | 10:00 | 5:00 pm | 17:00 | same day |
| 11:00 am | 11:00 | 6:00 pm | 18:00 | same day |
| 12:00 pm | 12:00 | 7:00 pm | 19:00 | same day |
| 1:00 pm | 13:00 | 8:00 pm | 20:00 | same day |
| 2:00 pm | 14:00 | 9:00 pm | 21:00 | same day |
| 3:00 pm | 15:00 | 10:00 pm | 22:00 | same day |
| 4:00 pm | 16:00 | 11:00 pm | 23:00 | same day |
| 5:00 pm | 17:00 | 12:00 am | 00:00 | the next day |
| 6:00 pm | 18:00 | 1:00 am | 01:00 | the next day |
| 7:00 pm | 19:00 | 2:00 am | 02:00 | the next day |
| 8:00 pm | 20:00 | 3:00 am | 03:00 | the next day |
| 9:00 pm | 21:00 | 4:00 am | 04:00 | the next day |
| 10:00 pm | 22:00 | 5:00 am | 05:00 | the next day |
| 11:00 pm | 23:00 | 6:00 am | 06:00 | the next day |
What are the best hours to schedule a call between PST and UTC?
1 hour of the standard 9:00 am to 5:00 pm working day line up in both zones, from 9:00 am PST to 10:00 am PST. In UTC that window reads 4:00 pm to 5:00 pm. Outside it, one side is either not yet at their desk or already gone.
| PST | UTC | Working hours | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9:00 am | 4:00 pm | both sides | mid morning in Pacific, afternoon in UTC |
Does daylight saving change PST to UTC?
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.
Coordinated Universal Time does not move its clocks at all, so its UTC+0 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 7 hours and for the rest it is 8 hours. The table above is built for today, not for an average day.
Is PST ahead of or behind UTC?
PST is behind UTC by 7 hours: when it is 12:00 pm in Pacific, it is 7:00 pm in UTC. 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 utc" they nearly always mean the zone rather than the literal winter offset, so this page resolves PST to America/Los_Angeles and UTC to Etc/UTC and applies whichever offset is genuinely in force on the day.
Pacific Time covers Los Angeles, San Francisco, Seattle and Vancouver. Coordinated Universal Time covers the reference all other zones are measured against. The identifiers behind them are America/Los_Angeles and Etc/UTC, which is what any calendar or scheduling system should be storing rather than a fixed number of hours.
Questions
- What is PST in UTC?
- PST is 7 hours behind UTC. 9:00 am PST is 4:00 pm UTC.
- How many hours ahead is UTC of PST?
- UTC is 7 hours ahead of PST. That varies across the year, between 7 hours and 8 hours.
- What time is it in UTC right now?
- 7:37 pm UTC on Wednesday, September 23, 2026.
- When can Pacific and UTC meet during working hours?
- Between 9:00 am and 10:00 am PST, which is 4:00 pm to 5:00 pm UTC.
- Does this account for daylight saving?
- Yes. Every reading is computed from the IANA database for the actual date, so PDT and UTC are the abbreviations genuinely in force today rather than a fixed assumption.
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