Los Angeles to Chicago to New York City to GMT to CEST Time Converter
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8:30 am08:30 PST (UTC-8), Nov 1, 2026 = 10:30 am10:30 CST (UTC-6), Nov 1, 2026 = 11:30 am11:30 EST (UTC-5), Nov 1, 2026 = 4:30 pm16:30 GMT (UTC+0), Nov 1, 2026 = 5:30 pm17:30 CET (UTC+1), Nov 1, 2026
Los Angeles is 2 hours behind Chicago. Los Angeles is 3 hours behind New York City. Los Angeles is 8 hours behind GMT. Los Angeles is 9 hours behind CET.
How the time difference changes
Los Angeles to Chicago
Normally, Los Angeles is 2 hours behind Chicago. Briefly around seasonal clock changes, Los Angeles is 1 hour behind Chicago or Los Angeles is 3 hours behind Chicago.
Typically, working hours of 9:00 am to 6:00 pm in Los Angeles correspond to 11:00 am to 8:00 pm in Chicago.Typically, working hours of 09:00 to 18:00 in Los Angeles correspond to 11:00 to 20:00 in Chicago.
Los Angeles to New York City
Normally, Los Angeles is 3 hours behind New York City. Briefly around seasonal clock changes, Los Angeles is 2 hours behind New York City or Los Angeles is 4 hours behind New York City.
Typically, working hours of 9:00 am to 6:00 pm in Los Angeles correspond to 12:00 pm to 9:00 pm in New York City.Typically, working hours of 09:00 to 18:00 in Los Angeles correspond to 12:00 to 21:00 in New York City.
Los Angeles to GMT
For most of the year, Los Angeles is 7 hours behind GMT. From Nov 1, 2026 to Mar 14, 2027, Los Angeles is 8 hours behind GMT.
For most of the year, working hours of 9:00 am to 6:00 pm in Los Angeles correspond to 4:00 pm to 1:00 am (next day) in GMT. At other times of the year, working hours of 9:00 am to 6:00 pm in Los Angeles correspond to 5:00 pm to 2:00 am (next day) in GMT.For most of the year, working hours of 09:00 to 18:00 in Los Angeles correspond to 16:00 to 01:00 (next day) in GMT. At other times of the year, working hours of 09:00 to 18:00 in Los Angeles correspond to 17:00 to 02:00 (next day) in GMT.
Los Angeles to CEST
For most of the year, Los Angeles is 9 hours behind CEST. From Nov 1, 2026 to Mar 14, 2027, Los Angeles is 9 hours behind CET. From Mar 14 to Mar 28, 2027, and from Oct 31 to Nov 7, 2027, Los Angeles is 8 hours behind CET.
For most of the year, working hours of 9:00 am to 6:00 pm in Los Angeles correspond to 6:00 pm to 3:00 am (next day) in CEST. At other times of the year, working hours of 9:00 am to 6:00 pm in Los Angeles correspond to 6:00 pm to 3:00 am (next day) in CET or working hours of 9:00 am to 6:00 pm in Los Angeles correspond to 5:00 pm to 2:00 am (next day) in CET.For most of the year, working hours of 09:00 to 18:00 in Los Angeles correspond to 18:00 to 03:00 (next day) in CEST. At other times of the year, working hours of 09:00 to 18:00 in Los Angeles correspond to 18:00 to 03:00 (next day) in CET or working hours of 09:00 to 18:00 in Los Angeles correspond to 17:00 to 02:00 (next day) in CET.
Compare Los Angeles time with Chicago, New York City, GMT, and CEST time, including current local time, UTC offsets, time difference, daylight saving changes, working hours, and shareable meeting times.
Time Difference
PST (Pacific Standard Time) is 2 hours behind CST (Central Standard Time). PST (Pacific Standard Time) is 3 hours behind EST (Eastern Standard Time). PST (Pacific Standard Time) is 8 hours behind Greenwich Mean Time. PST (Pacific Standard Time) is 9 hours behind Central European Time.
8:30 am08:30 in Los Angeles, CA, USA is 10:30 am10:30 in Chicago, IL, USA and is 11:30 am11:30 in New York City, NY, USA and is 4:30 pm16:30 in GMT and is 5:30 pm17:30 in CET
Los Angeles to Chicago call time
Best time for a conference call or a meeting is between 9am-4pm09:00-16:00 in Los Angeles which corresponds to 11am-6pm11:00-18:00 in Chicago
Los Angeles to New York City call time
Best time for a conference call or a meeting is between 9am-3pm09:00-15:00 in Los Angeles which corresponds to 12pm-6pm12:00-18:00 in New York City
Los Angeles to GMT call time
Best time for a conference call or a meeting is between 9am-10am09:00-10:00 in Los Angeles which corresponds to 5pm-6pm17:00-18:00 in GMT
Los Angeles to CET call time
Best time for a conference call or a meeting is between 8:30am-9:30am08:30-09:30 in Los Angeles which corresponds to 5:30pm-6:30pm17:30-18:30 in CET. Their 9am–6pm09:00–18:00 working hours do not overlap; this is a suggested compromise.
8:30 am08:30 PST (Pacific Standard Time) (Los Angeles, CA, USA). Offset UTC -8:00 hours
10:30 am10:30 CST (Central Standard Time) (Chicago, IL, USA). Offset UTC -6:00 hours
11:30 am11:30 EST (Eastern Standard Time) (New York City, NY, USA). Offset UTC -5:00 hours
4:30 pm16:30 Greenwich Mean Time (GMT). Offset UTC 0:00 hours
5:30 pm17:30 Central European Time (CET). Offset UTC +1:00 hour
8:30 am08:30 Los Angeles, CA, USA / 10:30 am10:30 Chicago, IL, USA / 11:30 am11:30 New York City, NY, USA / 4:30 pm16:30 GMT / 5:30 pm17:30 CET
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| Los Angeles, CA, USA | Chicago, IL, USA | New York City, NY, USA | GMT | CET |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1:00am | 2:00am | 7:00am | 8:00am | |
| 2:00am | 3:00am | 8:00am | 9:00am | |
| 4:00am | 5:00am | 10:00am | 11:00am | |
| 5:00am | 6:00am | 11:00am | 12:00pm | |
| 6:00am | 7:00am | 12:00pm | 1:00pm | |
| 7:00am | 8:00am | 1:00pm | 2:00pm | |
| 8:00am | 9:00am | 2:00pm | 3:00pm | |
| 9:00am | 10:00am | 3:00pm | 4:00pm | |
| 10:00am | 11:00am | 4:00pm | 5:00pm | |
| 11:00am | 12:00pm | 5:00pm | 6:00pm | |
| 12:00pm | 1:00pm | 6:00pm | 7:00pm | |
| 1:00pm | 2:00pm | 7:00pm | 8:00pm | |
| 2:00pm | 3:00pm | 8:00pm | 9:00pm | |
| 3:00pm | 4:00pm | 9:00pm | 10:00pm | |
| 4:00pm | 5:00pm | 10:00pm | 11:00pm | |
| 5:00pm | 6:00pm | 11:00pm | 12:00am next day | |
| 6:00pm | 7:00pm | 12:00am next day | 1:00am next day | |
| 7:00pm | 8:00pm | 1:00am next day | 2:00am next day | |
| 8:00pm | 9:00pm | 2:00am next day | 3:00am next day | |
| 9:00pm | 10:00pm | 3:00am next day | 4:00am next day | |
| 10:00pm | 11:00pm | 4:00am next day | 5:00am next day | |
| 11:00pm | 12:00am next day | 5:00am next day | 6:00am next day | |
| 12:00am next day | 1:00am next day | 6:00am next day | 7:00am next day | |
| 1:00am next day | 2:00am next day | 7:00am next day | 8:00am next day | |
| 01:00 | 02:00 | 07:00 | 08:00 | |
| 02:00 | 03:00 | 08:00 | 09:00 | |
| 04:00 | 05:00 | 10:00 | 11:00 | |
| 05:00 | 06:00 | 11:00 | 12:00 | |
| 06:00 | 07:00 | 12:00 | 13:00 | |
| 07:00 | 08:00 | 13:00 | 14:00 | |
| 08:00 | 09:00 | 14:00 | 15:00 | |
| 09:00 | 10:00 | 15:00 | 16:00 | |
| 10:00 | 11:00 | 16:00 | 17:00 | |
| 11:00 | 12:00 | 17:00 | 18:00 | |
| 12:00 | 13:00 | 18:00 | 19:00 | |
| 13:00 | 14:00 | 19:00 | 20:00 | |
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| 17:00 | 18:00 | 23:00 | 00:00 next day | |
| 18:00 | 19:00 | 00:00 next day | 01:00 next day | |
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Los Angeles Time Zone and Facts
Time Zone
PDT – Pacific Daylight Time, UTC-7 (daylight saving time)
Los Angeles Facts
Chicago Time Zone and Facts
Time Zone
CDT – Central Daylight Time, UTC-5 (daylight saving time)
Chicago Facts
New York City Time Zone and Facts
Time Zone
EDT – Eastern Daylight Time, UTC-4 (daylight saving time)
New York City Facts
Greenwich Mean Time
Offset: GMT is the same as Greenwich Mean Time (GMT).
Countries using this time zone: Antarctica, Burkina Faso, Gambia, Ghana, Greenland, Guernsey, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Iceland, Ireland, Isle of Man, Ivory Coast, Jersey, Liberia, Mali, Mauritania, Morocco, Saint Helena, São Tomé and Príncipe, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Togo, United Kingdom, Western Sahara
Principal Cities: The largest city in the GMT time zone is London in the United Kingdom, with about 8.962 million people. Other major cities in this time zone include Abidjan, Bamako, Casablanca, Dakar.
Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) originally referred to the mean solar time at the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, London. It is now often used to refer to Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) when this is viewed as a time zone, and in casual use the two are the same. In the military, GMT is known as Zulu time. Greenwich Mean Time was the same as Universal Time (UT), a standard astronomical concept used in many technical fields, until the introduction of UTC in 1972.
GMT representations, usage and related time zones
- Z - is the zone designator for the zero UTC/GMT offset, also known as 'Zulu' time
- +00 - basic short
- +0000 - basic
- +00:00 - extended
- +0000 - sign character (+) followed by a four digit time providing hours (00) and minutes (00) of the offset. Indicates the zero UTC/GMT offset.
- Zulu - Military abbreviation for GMT
- Z - short form of 'Zulu'
- Africa/Abidjan
- Africa/Accra
- Africa/Bamako
- Africa/Banjul
- Africa/Bissau
- Africa/Conakry
- Africa/Dakar
- Africa/Freetown
- Africa/Lome
- Africa/Monrovia
- Africa/Nouakchott
- Africa/Ouagadougou
- Africa/Sao_Tome
- Africa/Timbuktu
- America/Danmarkshavn
- Atlantic/Reykjavik
- Atlantic/St_Helena
- Eire
- Etc/GMT
- Etc/GMT+0
- Etc/GMT-0
- Etc/GMT0
- Etc/Greenwich
- Europe/Belfast
- Europe/Dublin
- Europe/Guernsey
- Europe/Isle_of_Man
- Europe/Jersey
- Europe/London
- GB
- GB-Eire
- GMT
- GMT+0
- GMT-0
- GMT0
- Greenwich
- Iceland
- EGST - Eastern Greenland Summer Time
- GMT - Greenwich Mean Time
- WET - Western European Time
- AZOST - Azores Summer Time
- UTC - Coordinated Universal Time
- WT - Western Sahara Standard Time
- Z - Zulu Time Zone
Central European Summer Time
Offset: CEST is 2 hours ahead of Greenwich Mean Time (GMT).
Countries using this time zone: Albania, Andorra, Austria, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Czechia, Denmark, France, Germany, Gibraltar, Hungary, Italy, Kosovo, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Malta, Monaco, Montenegro, Netherlands, North Macedonia, Norway, Poland, San Marino, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Svalbard and Jan Mayen, Sweden, Switzerland, Vatican City
Principal Cities: The largest city in the CEST time zone is Berlin in Germany, with about 3.426 million people. Other major cities in this time zone include Madrid, Rome, Paris, Hamburg.
German: MESZ - Mitteleuropäische Sommerzeit
Daylight Saving: Central European Summer Time (CEST) is a daylight saving/summer time zone, but some places set clocks back one hour during winter and observe Central European Time (CET).
End: Central European Summer Time (CEST) ended on Sunday, October 25, 2026 at 3:00 am03:00 local time and clocks were set one hour back to Sunday, October 25, 2026, 2:00 am02:00 local standard time instead. Daylight saving ends annually on the last Sunday of October.
Start: Central European Summer Time (CEST) starts on Sunday, March 28, 2027 at 2:00 am02:00 local time and clocks are set one hour forward to Sunday, March 28, 2027, 3:00 am03:00. Daylight saving starts annually on the last Sunday of March.
CEST representations, usage and related time zones
- +02 - basic short
- +0200 - basic
- +02:00 - extended
- +0200 - sign character (+) followed by a four digit time providing hours (02) and minutes (00) of the offset. Indicates an offset of two hours to the east of the zero meridian.
- Bravo - Military abbreviation for CEST
- B - short form of 'Bravo'
- Africa/Ceuta
- Arctic/Longyearbyen
- Atlantic/Jan_Mayen
- CET
- Europe/Amsterdam
- Europe/Andorra
- Europe/Belgrade
- Europe/Berlin
- Europe/Bratislava
- Europe/Brussels
- Europe/Budapest
- Europe/Busingen
- Europe/Copenhagen
- Europe/Gibraltar
- Europe/Ljubljana
- Europe/Luxembourg
- Europe/Madrid
- Europe/Malta
- Europe/Monaco
- Europe/Oslo
- Europe/Paris
- Europe/Podgorica
- Europe/Prague
- Europe/Rome
- Europe/San_Marino
- Europe/Sarajevo
- Europe/Skopje
- Europe/Stockholm
- Europe/Tirane
- Europe/Vaduz
- Europe/Vatican
- Europe/Vienna
- Europe/Warsaw
- Europe/Zagreb
- Europe/Zurich
- MET
- Poland
- CEST - Central European Summer Time
- EET - Eastern European Time
- MESZ - Mitteleuropäische Sommerzeit
- B - Bravo Time Zone
- CAT - Central Africa Time
- IST - Israel Standard Time
- SAST - South Africa Standard Time
- WAST - West Africa Summer Time
