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New York to Los Angeles Time Converter

Los Angeles is 3 hours behind New York, and that stays the same all year because both cities change their clocks on the same dates. So 9:00 AM in New York is 6:00 AM in Los Angeles.

EDT · UTC−4
Mon, Oct 19
PDT · UTC−7
Mon, Oct 19

On Monday, October 19, Los Angeles is 3 hours behind New York.

Heads-up: clocks in New York go back on Sunday, November 1. After that, Los Angeles is 2 hours behind New York.

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Time zone rules checked October 2026. The converter runs on your device using its built-in time zone database, so it accounts for daylight saving time on any date you pick.

New York and Los Angeles, hour by hour

Green rows are the hours when both cities are inside an ordinary 9-to-5 working day. Change the date in the converter and this table follows it.

Hour by hour for Monday, October 19, 2026 in New York
New York EDTLos Angeles PDTOffice hours (9 AM to 5 PM, local weekdays)
12:00 AM9:00 PM previous day
1:00 AM10:00 PM previous day
2:00 AM11:00 PM previous day
3:00 AM12:00 AM
4:00 AM1:00 AM
5:00 AM2:00 AM
6:00 AM3:00 AM
7:00 AM4:00 AM
8:00 AM5:00 AM
9:00 AM6:00 AMNew York only
10:00 AM7:00 AMNew York only
11:00 AM8:00 AMNew York only
12:00 PM9:00 AMBoth working
1:00 PM10:00 AMBoth working
2:00 PM11:00 AMBoth working
3:00 PM12:00 PMBoth working
4:00 PM1:00 PMBoth working
5:00 PM2:00 PMLos Angeles only
6:00 PM3:00 PMLos Angeles only
7:00 PM4:00 PMLos Angeles only
8:00 PM5:00 PM
9:00 PM6:00 PM
10:00 PM7:00 PM
11:00 PM8:00 PM

The best time for a call

If both sides keep roughly 9-to-5 hours, you get 5 hours of overlap on a normal weekday: 12:00 PM to 5:00 PM in New York, which is 9:00 AM to 2:00 PM in Los Angeles.

This is one of the few pairs where the gap never moves. Both cities change their clocks on the same night, so Los Angeles is always three hours behind. The shared day is long, from noon to 5 p.m. in New York.

The easy mistake runs both ways: a 4 p.m. call booked from Los Angeles is 7 p.m. in New York, and a keen 9 a.m. call from New York is 6 a.m. on the West Coast. If the team stretches further west, watch Arizona, where most of the state doesn’t use daylight saving time.

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Does the difference ever change?

Both cities follow the same daylight saving rules. Clocks go forward on the second Sunday in March and back on the first Sunday in November. They change on the same night, so the gap between them never moves. The only thing to watch is that “EST” and “PST” are winter names: in summer the correct labels are EDT and PDT, though most people use them loosely.

The two time zones

New York

Time zone
Eastern Time (EST / EDT)
UTC offset
UTC−5, or UTC−4 in summer
Daylight saving
Clocks go forward on the second Sunday in March and back on the first Sunday in November.
Next change
Nov 1, 2026 (clocks go back)
IANA zone
America/New_York

Los Angeles

Time zone
Pacific Time (PST / PDT)
UTC offset
UTC−8, or UTC−7 in summer
Daylight saving
Clocks go forward on the second Sunday in March and back on the first Sunday in November.
Next change
Nov 1, 2026 (clocks go back)
IANA zone
America/Los_Angeles

Common questions

What time is it in Los Angeles when it’s 9 AM in New York?

6:00 AM, all year round.

Does the time difference between New York and Los Angeles ever change?

No. Both cities move their clocks on the same dates, so Los Angeles stays 3 hours behind New York all year.

What’s a good time for a meeting between New York and Los Angeles?

If both sides keep roughly 9-to-5 hours, you get 5 hours of overlap on a normal weekday: 12:00 PM to 5:00 PM in New York, which is 9:00 AM to 2:00 PM in Los Angeles.

Need more than two cities? The World Time Grid lines up to five locations side by side, so you can see everyone’s day at once.

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