Los Angeles is on Pacific Time: Pacific Standard Time (PST, UTC−8) from November to March and Pacific Daylight Time (PDT, UTC−7) from March to November. It is three hours behind New York all year.
Time zone facts
- IANA time zone: America/Los_Angeles
- Country: United States (US)
- Coordinates: 34.0522°, -118.2437°
PST or PDT?
Clocks in Los Angeles go forward at 2:00 a.m. on the second Sunday of March and back at 2:00 a.m. on the first Sunday of November. The exact next change is shown above.
Since 2026, Vancouver no longer follows this pattern: British Columbia stays on UTC−7 all year, so in winter Vancouver is an hour ahead of Los Angeles.
Working across the Pacific
Los Angeles is a gateway to Asia: a late afternoon in LA is already the next morning in Tokyo, Seoul and Shanghai. Tokyo is 16 hours ahead during PDT and 17 hours during PST.
For calls with Europe, the LA early morning lines up with the London afternoon.