Los Angeles

United States • Pacific Time

Time Zone

Los Angeles uses Pacific Time (PST / PDT), currently running at UTC−8 (winter) / UTC−7 (summer). Clocks spring forward one hour in mid-March and fall back in early November.

Business & Commerce

Los Angeles operates on Pacific Time (PT) — Pacific Standard Time (PST, UTC−8) in winter and Pacific Daylight Time (PDT, UTC−7) in summer. It is the entertainment capital of the world, the United States' second-largest city, and a major Pacific gateway for trade with Asia. Pacific Time runs three hours behind New York (Eastern Time), a difference that shapes virtually every aspect of American business communication — a 9:00 AM ET conference call in New York begins at 6:00 AM in Los Angeles, which has historically compressed the West Coast workday and driven the technology industry's famously late starts. The Port of Los Angeles and Port of Long Beach together form the busiest container port complex in North America, processing more than a third of all U.S. maritime imports, and their logistics operations run across the Pacific Time to East Asian time-zone divide that separates LA from its largest trading partners.