PST to BST Converter
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8:30 am08:30 PST (UTC-8), Nov 1, 2026 = 4:30 pm16:30 GMT (UTC+0), Nov 1, 2026
PST is 8 hours behind GMT.
PST (US winter time, UTC-8) and BST examples
These examples always use PST (UTC-8) and BST (UTC+1). They stay the same when you change the date or time above. The selected conversion may differ when daylight saving time applies.
PST is 9 hours behind BST.
PST is US Pacific winter time (early November to mid-March). The rest of the year Los Angeles uses PDT (UTC-7), one hour later. For Pacific Time that follows daylight saving time, use PT to BST. For daylight-time examples, use PDT to BST.
How the time difference changes
For most of the year, PDT is 8 hours behind BST. From Nov 1, 2026 to Mar 14, 2027, PST is 8 hours behind GMT. From Mar 14 to Mar 28, 2027, and from Oct 31 to Nov 7, 2027, PDT is 7 hours behind GMT.
For most of the year, working hours of 9:00 am to 6:00 pm in PDT correspond to 5:00 pm to 2:00 am (next day) in BST. At other times of the year, working hours of 9:00 am to 6:00 pm in PST correspond to 5:00 pm to 2:00 am (next day) in GMT or working hours of 9:00 am to 6:00 pm in PDT correspond to 4:00 pm to 1:00 am (next day) in GMT.For most of the year, working hours of 09:00 to 18:00 in PDT correspond to 17:00 to 02:00 (next day) in BST. At other times of the year, working hours of 09:00 to 18:00 in PST correspond to 17:00 to 02:00 (next day) in GMT or working hours of 09:00 to 18:00 in PDT correspond to 16:00 to 01:00 (next day) in GMT.
Compare PST time with BST time, including current local time, UTC offsets, time difference, daylight saving changes, working hours, and shareable meeting times.
Time Difference
Pacific Standard Time is 8 hours behind Greenwich Mean Time.
8:30 am08:30 in PST is 4:30 pm16:30 in GMT
PST to GMT call time
Best time for a conference call or a meeting is between 9am-10am09:00-10:00 in PST which corresponds to 5pm-6pm17:00-18:00 in GMT
8:30 am08:30 Pacific Standard Time (PST). Offset UTC -8:00 hours
4:30 pm16:30 Greenwich Mean Time (GMT). Offset UTC 0:00 hours
8:30 am08:30 PST / 4:30 pm16:30 GMT
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Pacific Standard Time
Offset: PST is 8 hours behind Greenwich Mean Time (GMT).
Countries using this time zone: Mexico, United States
Principal Cities: The largest city in the PST 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: HNP - Heure Normale du Pacifique
Spanish: PT - Tiempo del Pacífico, PT - Zona Noroeste
Today all shaded areas are on PST.
Daylight Saving: This is a standard time zone. During summer, some places set clocks forward one hour for daylight saving time and observe Pacific Daylight Time (PDT).
Start: Pacific Standard Time (PST) started 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. Standard time starts annually on the first Sunday of November.
End: Pacific Standard Time (PST) ends 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 local daylight time instead. Standard time ends annually on the second Sunday of March.
See USA daylight saving time and upcoming clock changes worldwide.
PST 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 west of the zero meridian.
- Uniform - Military abbreviation for PST
- U - short form of 'Uniform'
- America/Ensenada
- America/Los_Angeles
- America/Santa_Isabel
- America/Tijuana
- America/Vancouver
- Canada/Pacific
- Mexico/BajaNorte
- PST8PDT
- US/Pacific
- Pacific Standard Time - UTC -8
- Pitcairn Standard Time - UTC -8
- AKDT - Alaska Daylight Time
- PST - Pacific Standard Time
- PT - Pacific Time
- PST - Pitcairn Standard Time
- U - Uniform Time Zone
British Summer Time
Offset: BST is 1 hour ahead of Greenwich Mean Time (GMT).
Countries using this time zone: Guernsey, Isle of Man, Jersey, United Kingdom
Principal Cities: The largest city in the BST time zone is London in the United Kingdom, with about 8.962 million people. Other major cities in this time zone include Birmingham, Glasgow, Manchester, Sheffield.
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.
Current time in the United Kingdom: UK time now
Today the shaded areas are on UTC+0 (GMT).
BST representations, usage and related time zones
- +01 - basic short
- +0100 - basic
- +01:00 - extended
- +0100 - sign character (+) followed by a four digit time providing hours (01) and minutes (00) of the offset. Indicates an offset of one hour to the east of the zero meridian.
- Alpha - Military abbreviation for BST
- A - short form of 'Alpha'
- Europe/Belfast
- Europe/Guernsey
- Europe/Isle_of_Man
- Europe/Jersey
- Europe/London
- GB
- GB-Eire
- British Summer Time - UTC +1
- Bangladesh Standard Time - UTC +6
- Bougainville Standard Time - UTC +11
- BST - British Summer Time
- CET - Central European Time
- IST - Irish Standard Time
- WEST - Western European Summer Time
- A - Alpha Time Zone
- CET - Central European Time
- MEZ - Mitteleuropäische Zeit
- WAT - West Africa Time
- WST - Western Sahara Summer Time
- BMT - Biel Mean Time