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