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MST
Mountain Standard Time
GMT -7
12am
3am
6am
9am
12pm
3pm
6pm
9pm
PKT
Pakistan Standard Time
GMT +5
12am
3am
6am
9am
12pm
3pm
6pm
9pm

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MST and PKT examples

These examples always use MST (UTC-7) and PKT (UTC+5). They stay the same when you change the date or time above. The selected conversion may differ when daylight saving time applies.

MST is 12 hours behind PKT.

How the time difference changes

For most of the year, MDT is 11 hours behind PKT. At other times of the year, MST is 12 hours behind PKT.

For most of the year, working hours of 9:00 am to 5:00 pm in MDT correspond to 8:00 pm to 4:00 am (next day) in PKT. At other times of the year, working hours of 9:00 am to 5:00 pm in MST correspond to 9:00 pm to 5:00 am (next day) in PKT.

Compare MST time with PKT time, including current local time, UTC offsets, time difference, daylight saving changes, working hours, and shareable meeting times.

Time Difference

Mountain Standard Time is 12 hours behind Pakistan Standard Time
5:00 am05:00 in MST is 5:00 pm17:00 in PKT

MST to PKT call time
Best time for a conference call or a meeting is between 7am-8am in MST which corresponds to 7pm-8pm in PKT

5:00 am05:00 Mountain Standard Time (MST). Offset UTC -7:00 hours
5:00 pm17:00 Pakistan Standard Time (PKT). Offset UTC +5:00 hours

5:00 am05:00 MST / 5:00 pm17:00 PKT

MSTPKT
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1am1pm
2am2pm
3am3pm
4am4pm
5am5pm
6am6pm
7am7pm
8am8pm
9am9pm
10am10pm
11am11pm
12pm (noon)12am (midnight)
1pm1am
2pm2am
3pm3am
4pm4am
5pm5am
6pm6am
7pm7am
8pm8am
9pm9am
10pm10am
11pm11am
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01:0013:00
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04:0016:00
05:0017:00
06:0018:00
07:0019:00
08:0020:00
09:0021:00
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11:0023:00
12:0000:00
13:0001:00
14:0002:00
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22:0010:00
23:0011:00

Mountain Standard Time

Offset: MST is 7 hours behind Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) and is used in North America

Countries using this time zone: Canada, Mexico, United States

Principal Cities: The largest city in the MST time zone is Phoenix in the United States, with about 1.446 million people. Other major cities in this time zone include Calgary, Edmonton, El Paso, Denver.

French: HNR - Heure Normale des Rocheuses

Spanish: MT - Zona Pacífico

MST Time Zone Geo Map
MST timezone map

Daylight Saving: This is a standard time zone. During summer, some places set clocks forward one hour for daylight saving time and observe Mountain Daylight Time (MDT).

Daylight saving time clock moves back for one hour from 2am to 1amStart: Mountain Standard Time (MST) started on Sunday, November 2, 2025 at 2:00 am local time and clocks were set one hour back to Sunday, November 2, 2025, 1:00 am. Standard time starts annually on the first Sunday of November.

Daylight saving time clock moves forward for one hour from 2am to 3amEnd: Mountain Standard Time (MST) ends on Sunday, March 8, 2026 at 2:00 am local time and clocks are set one hour forward to Sunday, March 8, 2026, 3:00 am local daylight time instead. Standard time ends annually on the second Sunday of March.

MST representations, usage and related time zones

W3C/ISO-8601: International standard covering representation and exchange of dates and time-related data
  • -07 - basic short
  • -0700 - basic
  • -07:00 - extended
Email/RFC-2822: Internet Message Format Date Standard, typically used for timestamps in email headers
  • -0700 - sign character (-) followed by a four digit time providing hours (07) and minutes (00) of the offset. Indicates an offset of seven hours to the west of the zero meridian.
Military/NATO: Used by the U.S. military, Chinese military and others
  • Tango - Military abbreviation for MST
  • T - short form of 'Tango'
IANA/Olson: Reflects MST time zone boundaries defined by political bodies, primarily intended for use with computer programs and operating systems
  • America/Boise
  • America/Cambridge_Bay
  • America/Ciudad_Juarez
  • America/Creston
  • America/Dawson
  • America/Dawson_Creek
  • America/Denver
  • America/Edmonton
  • America/Fort_Nelson
  • America/Hermosillo
  • America/Inuvik
  • America/Mazatlan
  • America/Phoenix
  • America/Shiprock
  • America/Whitehorse
  • America/Yellowknife
  • Canada/Mountain
  • Canada/Yukon
  • MST
  • MST7MDT
  • Mexico/BajaSur
  • Navajo
  • US/Arizona
  • US/Mountain
Time zones with the GMT -7 offset:
  • MST - Mountain Standard Time
  • PDT - Pacific Daylight Time
  • YST - Yukon Standard Time
  • T - Tango Time Zone

Pakistan Standard Time

Offset: PKT is 5 hours ahead Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) and is used in Asia

Countries using this time zone: Pakistan

Principal Cities: The largest city in the PKT time zone is Karachi in Pakistan, with about 11.624 million people. Other major cities in this time zone include Lahore, Faisalabad, Rawalpindi, Multan.

Daylight Saving: Clocks in Pakistan Standard Time (PKT) do not change for daylight saving time, so PKT stays the same throughout the year. Other time zones may set clocks forward in summer and back in winter.

PKT Time Zone Geo Map
PKT timezone map

PKT representations, usage and related time zones

W3C/ISO-8601: International standard covering representation and exchange of dates and time-related data
  • +05 - basic short
  • +0500 - basic
  • +05:00 - extended
Email/RFC-2822: Internet Message Format Date Standard, typically used for timestamps in email headers
  • +0500 - sign character (+) followed by a four digit time providing hours (05) and minutes (00) of the offset. Indicates an offset of five hours to the east of the zero meridian.
Military/NATO: Used by the U.S. military, Chinese military and others
  • Echo - Military abbreviation for PKT
  • E - short form of 'Echo'
IANA/Olson: Reflects PKT time zone boundaries defined by political bodies, primarily intended for use with computer programs and operating systems
  • Asia/Karachi
Time zones with the GMT +5 offset:
  • AMST - Armenia Summer Time
  • AQTT - Aqtobe Time
  • AZST - Azerbaijan Summer Time
  • E - Echo Time Zone
  • MAWT - Mawson Time
  • MVT - Maldives Time
  • ORAT - Oral Time
  • PKT - Pakistan Standard Time
  • TFT - French Southern and Antarctic Time
  • TJT - Tajikistan Time
  • TMT - Turkmenistan Time
  • UZT - Uzbekistan Time
  • YEKT - Yekaterinburg Time
  • HMT - Heard and McDonald Islands Time