Pacific Standard Time is UTC−08:00. It is the winter offset for Los Angeles, Seattle, Vancouver, and much of the US West Coast.
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PST/PDT is the civil time for America/Los_Angeles. The same offset family covers Vancouver (America/Vancouver) and Tijuana with their own IANA identifiers. Tech, entertainment, and shipping teams often schedule in Pacific Time; this page shows the live West Coast clock and whether standard or daylight time is active.
The offset shown above is computed from America/Los_Angeles at page render time using Intl.DateTimeFormat. It can change when daylight saving starts or ends.
Pacific Time observes daylight saving in the US and Canada. In summer the abbreviation is PDT (UTC−07:00).
Pacific Standard Time (PST) uses the IANA identifier America/Los_Angeles. Pacific Standard Time is UTC−08:00. It is the winter offset for Los Angeles, Seattle, Vancouver, and much of the US West Coast.
Right now Pacific Standard Time is UTC-07:00. The live abbreviation reported by the timezone database is PDT.
Daylight saving time is in effect. Standard time is labeled PST and daylight time is labeled PDT. Dates are taken from IANA data, not hardcoded on this site.
Use the converter with America/Los_Angeles as the source zone, or open the Time Zone Converter and pick a city that uses PST. Offsets update automatically when daylight saving begins or ends.