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UTC to PST time converter

UTC to PST here means UTC to Pacific time (Los Angeles), with whichever is in force on the date: PST (UTC−08:00) in winter or PDT (UTC−07:00) from March to November.

Your numbers

Time there
10:00 AM

5:00 PM on September 30, 2026 in UTC (Coordinated Universal Time) is 10:00 AM on Wednesday, September 30, 2026 in Los Angeles (US Pacific).

Date there
Wednesday, September 30, 2026
The To zone is
7 hours behind
From zone
Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), UTC+00:00
To zone
Pacific Daylight Time (PDT), UTC−07:00
Difference changes next
8 hours behind from Sunday, November 1, 2026, 9:00 AM

Answer for the example date Wednesday, September 30, 2026. It changes to today's date when the page loads.

Time there: 10:00 AM. 5:00 PM on September 30, 2026 in UTC (Coordinated Universal Time) is 10:00 AM on Wednesday, September 30, 2026 in Los Angeles (US Pacific).

How to calculate

Converts a time in UTC (Coordinated Universal Time) to Los Angeles (US Pacific), with the abbreviations and UTC offsets in force on the date and when the difference next changes.

Example with the default inputs (Time 17:00, From UTC (Coordinated Universal Time), To Los Angeles (US Pacific), Date September 30, 2026) on the example date Wednesday, September 30, 2026: 5:00 PM on September 30, 2026 in UTC (Coordinated Universal Time) is 10:00 AM on Wednesday, September 30, 2026 in Los Angeles (US Pacific).

Method: Find the instant (UTC) at which the From zone’s clocks show the date and time, then read the To zone’s clock at that instant; both offsets come from the browser’s IANA time zone data.

  • By default this page converts UTC (Coordinated Universal Time) to Los Angeles (US Pacific): the IANA tzdata zones UTC and America/Los_Angeles; the browser supplies their offsets and daylight saving rules (checked against tzdata 2026a), so a rule change arrives with a browser update.
  • A time that does not exist in the From zone (skipped when clocks spring forward) has no answer. A time that occurs twice (when clocks fall back) shows both results, earlier first, for every output that differs.
  • The difference is the To zone’s UTC offset minus the From zone’s, as “3 hours ahead”, “9 hours 30 minutes behind”, or “the same time”.
  • “Difference changes next” is the first moment after the typed time, within 366 days, at which the difference changes: the new difference, then that moment as the From zone’s local date and time (“2 hours ahead from Saturday, October 31, 2026, 11:00 PM”).
  • Each zone shows its name and abbreviation from the browser’s Unicode CLDR English names (left out when CLDR has none), then its offset as UTC+hh:mm or UTC−hh:mm.
  • Dates from 2000 to 2040 work.

Machine-readable copies: Markdown, JSON.

Worked examples

Each example is checked against the calculator on every build.

  1. Time 17:00, From UTC (Coordinated Universal Time), To Los Angeles (US Pacific), Date 2026-07-01 gives Time there 10:00, Date there 2026-07-01, The To zone is 7 hours behind, From zone Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), UTC+00:00, To zone Pacific Daylight Time (PDT), UTC−07:00, Difference changes next 8 hours behind from Sunday, November 1, 2026, 9:00 AM.Source: IANA Time Zone Database, tzdata 2026a (https://www.iana.org/time-zones)
  2. Time 17:00, From UTC (Coordinated Universal Time), To Los Angeles (US Pacific), Date 2026-12-01 gives Time there 09:00, Date there 2026-12-01, The To zone is 8 hours behind, From zone Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), UTC+00:00, To zone Pacific Standard Time (PST), UTC−08:00, Difference changes next 7 hours behind from Sunday, March 14, 2027, 10:00 AM.Source: IANA Time Zone Database, tzdata 2026a (https://www.iana.org/time-zones)

Other questions people ask

Is PST 8 hours behind UTC?

PST is: UTC−08:00. From March to November Pacific time is on PDT, UTC−07:00, 7 hours behind UTC. The converter shows whichever Los Angeles uses on the date.

What is 12:00 UTC in Pacific time?

4:00 AM PST in winter and 5:00 AM PDT in summer.

Is UTC the same as GMT?

As a clock time, yes: both are UTC+00:00. GMT is also the name of the UK’s winter time; in summer the UK uses BST, UTC+01:00.

When does the time difference change next?

As of Wednesday, September 30, 2026, Los Angeles is 7 hours behind UTC; it is 8 hours behind from Sunday, November 1, 2026, 9:00 AM UTC time.