PDT to San Jose, Costa Rica Time Converter
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5:00 am05:00 PDT (UTC-7), Oct 15, 2026 = 6:00 am06:00 CST (UTC-6), Oct 15, 2026
PDT is 1 hour behind San José.
How the time difference changes
For most of the year, PDT is 1 hour behind San Jose, Costa Rica. From Nov 1, 2026 to Mar 14, 2027, PST is 2 hours behind San Jose, Costa Rica.
For most of the year, working hours of 9:00 am to 6:00 pm in PDT correspond to 10:00 am to 7:00 pm in San Jose, Costa Rica. At other times of the year, working hours of 9:00 am to 6:00 pm in PST correspond to 11:00 am to 8:00 pm in San Jose, Costa Rica.For most of the year, working hours of 09:00 to 18:00 in PDT correspond to 10:00 to 19:00 in San Jose, Costa Rica. At other times of the year, working hours of 09:00 to 18:00 in PST correspond to 11:00 to 20:00 in San Jose, Costa Rica.
Compare PDT time with San Jose time, including current local time, UTC offsets, time difference, daylight saving changes, working hours, and shareable meeting times.
Time Difference
Pacific Daylight Time is 1 hour behind CST (Central Standard Time).
5:00 am05:00 in PDT is 6:00 am06:00 in San Jose, Costa Rica
PDT to San José call time
Best time for a conference call or a meeting is between 9am-5pm09:00-17:00 in PDT which corresponds to 10am-6pm10:00-18:00 in San José
5:00 am05:00 Pacific Daylight Time (PDT). Offset UTC -7:00 hours
6:00 am06:00 CST (Central Standard Time) (San Jose, Costa Rica). Offset UTC -6:00 hours
5:00 am05:00 PDT / 6:00 am06:00 San Jose, Costa Rica
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Pacific Daylight Time
Offset: PDT is 7 hours behind Greenwich Mean Time (GMT).
Countries using this time zone: Canada, 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 all shaded areas are on PDT.
Daylight Saving: Pacific Daylight Time (PDT) is a daylight saving/summer time zone. During winter, some places set clocks back one hour and observe Pacific Standard Time (PST).
Start: Pacific Daylight Time (PDT) started on Sunday, March 8, 2026 at 2:00 am02:00 local time and clocks were set one hour forward to Sunday, March 8, 2026, 3:00 am03:00. Daylight saving starts annually on the second Sunday of March.
End: Pacific Daylight Time (PDT) ends on Sunday, November 1, 2026 at 2:00 am02:00 local time and clocks are 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.
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