New York to Los Angeles Time

New York to Los Angeles conversion chart

Every full hour of Wednesday, October 14, 2026 in New York, and the time in Los Angeles. Pick another date in the converter and the chart follows.

Daylight saving time in New York and Los Angeles

• New York: Eastern Time, EST (UTC−5) in winter and EDT (UTC−4) in summer. Clocks go forward at 2:00 AM on the second Sunday in March and back at 2:00 AM on the first Sunday in November, a schedule set by the Energy Policy Act of 2005.
• Los Angeles: Pacific Time, PST (UTC−8) in winter and PDT (UTC−7) in summer. Clocks go forward at 2:00 AM on the second Sunday in March and back at 2:00 AM on the first Sunday in November, a schedule set by the Energy Policy Act of 2005.

One schedule covers both New York and Los Angeles. EDT and PDT start on the second Sunday in March, and EST and PST return on the first Sunday in November, a schedule set by the Energy Policy Act of 2005: March 8 and November 1, 2026, then March 14 and November 7, 2027.

Both sides change on the same nights, so Los Angeles is 3 hours behind New York in every row of 2026 and 2027. The abbreviations still change with the clocks:

• On March 8, 2026, the clocks go forward at 2:00 AM local time on both sides, which is 3 hours later in Los Angeles than in New York. In between, Los Angeles is 4 hours behind New York.
• On November 1, 2026, the clocks go back at 2:00 AM local time on both sides, which is 3 hours later in Los Angeles than in New York. In between, Los Angeles is 2 hours behind New York.

New York to Los Angeles hour by hour

The table lists 6 AM to 11 PM on a New York clock with the Los Angeles time 3 hours behind. The 5 shaded hours fall inside a 9-to-5 day in New York and in Los Angeles.

Office hours and the best time to meet

With a 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM workday on both sides:

• 3 hours apart (EST with PST, EDT with PDT): 5 hours of shared office time: 12:00 PM to 5:00 PM in New York is 9:00 AM to 2:00 PM in Los Angeles. Book a one-hour meeting no later than 4:00 PM in New York; it then ends at 5:00 PM on the New York clock.

The workweek in New York and Los Angeles

For a Monday to Friday week with 9-to-5 office hours in both cities:

When New York starts the week at 9:00 AM on Monday, it is 6:00 AM on Monday in Los Angeles. The week ends the other way round: 5:00 PM on Friday in Los Angeles is 8:00 PM on Friday in New York. All 5 weekdays share office time, 25 hours a week.

For 3 hours of every 24, Los Angeles is still on the previous date: from midnight to 3:00 AM in New York, the Los Angeles calendar shows yesterday.

The quick way: subtract 3 hours to go from New York to Los Angeles. 9:00 AM in New York is 6:00 AM in Los Angeles.

New York and Los Angeles against UTC

Against UTC in 2026: New York at UTC−5 in January and UTC−4 in July, Los Angeles at UTC−8 in January and UTC−7 in July.

America/New_York and America/Los_Angeles are the IANA time zone database entries behind New York and Los Angeles here.

Comparing more than two places? Add as many cities as you need in the time zone converter, or find a slot that works for everyone with the meeting planner. For timestamps from logs or APIs, the Unix timestamp converter turns them into readable dates.

Sources

The clock change rules above come from these pages. The dates, the gap table, the hour table and the office hours are computed from them and checked against the time zone data at build time.

• NIST: Daylight Saving Time rules
• timeanddate.com: clock changes in New York
• timeanddate.com: Daylight Saving Time in the United States
• IANA: Time Zone Database

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Built by Tobias Kurth, designer. Updated October 14, 2026.

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