PDT
Pacific Daylight Time
GMT -7
Mon, Jul 30
12am
3am
6am
9am
12pm
3pm
6pm
9pm
UTC
Universal Time Coordinated
GMT +0
Mon, Jul 30
12am
3am
6am
9am
12pm
3pm
6pm
9pm

Quick answers

Selected conversion

6:00 am06:00 PDT (UTC-7), Jul 30, 2018 = 1:00 pm13:00 UTC (UTC+0), Jul 30, 2018

PDT is 7 hours behind UTC.

PDT and UTC examples

These examples always use PDT (UTC-7) and UTC (UTC+0). They stay the same when you change the date or time above. The selected conversion may differ when daylight saving time applies.

PDT is 7 hours behind UTC.

How the time difference changes

For most of the year, PDT is 7 hours behind UTC. At other times of the year, PST is 8 hours behind UTC.

For most of the year, working hours of 9:00 am to 5:00 pm in PDT correspond to 4:00 pm to 12:00 am (next day) in UTC. At other times of the year, working hours of 9:00 am to 5:00 pm in PST correspond to 5:00 pm to 1:00 am (next day) in UTC.For most of the year, working hours of 09:00 to 17:00 in PDT correspond to 16:00 to 00:00 (next day) in UTC. At other times of the year, working hours of 09:00 to 17:00 in PST correspond to 17:00 to 01:00 (next day) in UTC.

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

Time Difference

Pacific Daylight Time is 7 hours behind Universal Time Coordinated.
6:00 am06:00 in PDT is 1:00 pm13:00 in UTC

PDT to UTC call time
Best time for a conference call or a meeting is between 9am-10am09:00-10:00 in PDT which corresponds to 4pm-5pm16:00-17:00 in UTC

6:00 am06:00 Pacific Daylight Time (PDT). Offset UTC -7:00 hours
1:00 pm13:00 Universal Time Coordinated (UTC). Offset UTC 0:00 hours

6:00 am06:00 PDT / 1:00 pm13:00 UTC

PDTUTC
12:00am7:00am
1:00am8:00am
2:00am9:00am
3:00am10:00am
4:00am11:00am
5:00am12:00pm
6:00am1:00pm
7:00am2:00pm
8:00am3:00pm
9:00am4:00pm
10:00am5:00pm
11:00am6:00pm
12:00pm7:00pm
1:00pm8:00pm
2:00pm9:00pm
3:00pm10:00pm
4:00pm11:00pm
5:00pm12:00am
6:00pm1:00am
7:00pm2:00am
8:00pm3:00am
9:00pm4:00am
10:00pm5:00am
11:00pm6:00am
00:0007:00
01:0008:00
02:0009:00
03:0010:00
04:0011:00
05:0012:00
06:0013:00
07:0014:00
08:0015:00
09:0016:00
10:0017:00
11:0018:00
12:0019:00
13:0020:00
14:0021:00
15:0022:00
16:0023:00
17:0000:00
18:0001:00
19:0002:00
20:0003:00
21:0004:00
22:0005:00
23:0006:00

Pacific Daylight Time

Offset: PDT 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 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

PDT Time Zone Geo Map
PDT timezone map

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).

Daylight saving time clock moves forward for one hourStart: Pacific Daylight Time (PDT) started on Sunday, March 11, 2018 at 2:00 am02:00 local time and clocks were set one hour forward to Sunday, March 11, 2018, 3:00 am03:00. Daylight saving starts annually on the second Sunday of March.

Daylight saving time clock moves back for one hourEnd: Pacific Daylight Time (PDT) ends on Sunday, November 4, 2018 at 2:00 am02:00 local time and clocks are set one hour back to Sunday, November 4, 2018, 1:00 am01:00 local standard time instead. Daylight saving ends annually on the first Sunday of November.

See upcoming clock changes worldwide.

PDT 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 PDT
  • T - short form of 'Tango'
IANA/Olson: Reflects PDT time zone boundaries defined by political bodies, primarily intended for use with computer programs and operating systems
  • America/Ensenada
  • America/Los_Angeles
  • America/Santa_Isabel
  • America/Tijuana
  • America/Vancouver
  • Canada/Pacific
  • Mexico/BajaNorte
  • PST8PDT
  • US/Pacific
Time zones with the GMT -7 offset:
  • MST - Mountain Standard Time
  • PDT - Pacific Daylight Time
  • YST - Yukon Standard Time
  • T - Tango Time Zone

Universal Time Coordinated

Offset: UTC is 0 hours ahead Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) and is used in Universal

Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) is the world time standard that regulates clocks and time. It is successor to Greenwich Mean Time (GMT). For casual use, UTC is the same as GMT, but is used by the scientific community.
UTC is the time standard commonly used across the world since 1972. It is used in many technical fields, like aviation industry and meteorologists, also used to synchronize time across internet networks.

UTC representations, usage and related time zones

W3C/ISO-8601: International standard covering representation and exchange of dates and time-related data
  • Z - is the zone designator for the zero UTC/GMT offset, also known as 'Zulu' time
  • +00 - basic short
  • +0000 - basic
  • +00:00 - extended
Email/RFC-2822: Internet Message Format Date Standard, typically used for timestamps in email headers
  • +0000 - sign character (+) followed by a four digit time providing hours (00) and minutes (00) of the offset. Indicates the zero UTC/GMT offset.
Military/NATO: Used by the U.S. military, Chinese military and others
  • Zulu - Military abbreviation for UTC
  • Z - short form of 'Zulu'
IANA/Olson: Reflects UTC time zone boundaries defined by political bodies, primarily intended for use with computer programs and operating systems
  • Etc/UCT
  • Etc/UTC
  • Etc/Universal
  • Etc/Zulu
  • UCT
  • UTC
  • Universal
  • Zulu
Time zones with the GMT +0 offset:
  • EGST - Eastern Greenland Summer Time
  • GMT - Greenwich Mean Time
  • WET - Western European Time
  • AZOST - Azores Summer Time
  • UTC - Universal Time Coordinated
  • WT - Western Sahara Standard Time
  • Z - Zulu Time Zone