PDT to AWST Converter
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8:30 am08:30 PST (UTC-8), Nov 1, 2026 = 12:30 am00:30 AWST (UTC+8), Nov 2, 2026
PST is 16 hours behind AWST.
PDT and AWST examples
These examples always use PDT (UTC-7) and AWST (UTC+8). They stay the same when you change the date or time above. The selected conversion may differ when daylight saving time applies.
PDT is 15 hours behind AWST.
How the time difference changes
For most of the year, PDT is 15 hours behind AWST. From Nov 1, 2026 to Mar 14, 2027, PST is 16 hours behind AWST.
For most of the year, working hours of 9:00 am to 6:00 pm in PDT correspond to 12:00 am (next day) to 9:00 am (next day) in AWST. At other times of the year, working hours of 9:00 am to 6:00 pm in PST correspond to 1:00 am (next day) to 10:00 am (next day) in AWST.For most of the year, working hours of 09:00 to 18:00 in PDT correspond to 00:00 (next day) to 09:00 (next day) in AWST. At other times of the year, working hours of 09:00 to 18:00 in PST correspond to 01:00 (next day) to 10:00 (next day) in AWST.
Compare PDT time with AWST time, including current local time, UTC offsets, time difference, daylight saving changes, working hours, and shareable meeting times.
Time Difference
Pacific Standard Time is 16 hours behind Australian Western Standard Time.
8:30 am08:30 in PST is 12:30 am00:30 in AWST
PST to AWST call time
Best time for a conference call or a meeting is between 5pm-6pm17:00-18:00 in PST which corresponds to 9am-10am09:00-10:00 in AWST (next day)
8:30 am08:30 Pacific Standard Time (PST). Offset UTC -8:00 hours
12:30 am00:30 Australian Western Standard Time (AWST). Offset UTC +8:00 hours
8:30 am08:30 PST / 12:30 am00:30 AWST
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Pacific Daylight Time
Offset: PDT is 7 hours behind Greenwich Mean Time (GMT).
Countries using this time zone: Mexico, United States
Principal Cities: The largest city in the PDT time zone is Los Angeles in the United States, with about 3.821 million people. Other major cities in this time zone include Tijuana, San Diego, Mexicali, San Jose.
French: HAP - Heure Avancée du Pacifique
Spanish: PT - Zona Noroeste
Today the shaded areas are on UTC−8 (Pacific Standard Time).
Daylight Saving: Pacific Daylight Time (PDT) is a daylight saving/summer time zone, but some places set clocks back one hour during winter and observe Pacific Standard Time (PST).
End: Pacific Daylight Time (PDT) ended on Sunday, November 1, 2026 at 2:00 am02:00 local time and clocks were set one hour back to Sunday, November 1, 2026, 1:00 am01:00 local standard time instead. Daylight saving ends annually on the first Sunday of November.
Start: Pacific Daylight Time (PDT) starts on Sunday, March 14, 2027 at 2:00 am02:00 local time and clocks are set one hour forward to Sunday, March 14, 2027, 3:00 am03:00. Daylight saving starts annually on the second Sunday of March.
See USA daylight saving time and upcoming clock changes worldwide.
PDT representations, usage and related time zones
- -07 - basic short
- -0700 - basic
- -07:00 - extended
- -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.
- Tango - Military abbreviation for PDT
- T - short form of 'Tango'
- America/Ensenada
- America/Los_Angeles
- America/Santa_Isabel
- America/Tijuana
- America/Vancouver
- Canada/Pacific
- Mexico/BajaNorte
- PST8PDT
- US/Pacific
- MST - Mountain Standard Time
- PDT - Pacific Daylight Time
- YST - Yukon Standard Time
- T - Tango Time Zone
Australian Western Standard Time
Offset: AWST is 8 hours ahead of Greenwich Mean Time (GMT).
Countries using this time zone: Australia
Principal Cities: The largest city in the AWST time zone is Perth in Australia, with about 2.384 million people. Other major cities in this time zone include Mandurah, Bunbury, Geraldton, Albany.
Daylight Saving: Clocks in Australian Western Standard Time (AWST) do not change for daylight saving time, so AWST stays the same throughout the year. Other time zones may set clocks forward in summer and back in winter; see upcoming clock changes worldwide.
AWST representations, usage and related time zones
- +08 - basic short
- +0800 - basic
- +08:00 - extended
- +0800 - sign character (+) followed by a four digit time providing hours (08) and minutes (00) of the offset. Indicates an offset of eight hours to the east of the zero meridian.
- Hotel - Military abbreviation for AWST
- H - short form of 'Hotel'
- Australia/Perth
- Australia/West
- ACT - ASEAN Common Time
- AWST - Australian Western Standard Time
- BNT - Brunei Darussalam Time
- CAST - Casey Time
- CHOT - Choibalsan Time
- CST - China Standard Time
- H - Hotel Time Zone
- HKT - Hong Kong Time
- HOVST - Hovd Summer Time
- IRKT - Irkutsk Time
- KRAST - Krasnoyarsk Summer Time
- MYT - Malaysia Time
- PHT - Philippine Time
- SGT - Singapore Time
- ULAT - Ulaanbaatar Time
- WITA - Central Indonesian Time