PST to CST Central America
Time Difference
Pacific Daylight Time is 1 hours behind Central Standard Time
3:00 pm15:00 in PDT is 4:00 pm16:00 in CST
PST to CST call time
Best time for a conference call or a meeting is between 8am-4pm in PST which corresponds to 10am-6pm in CST
3:00 pm15:00 Pacific Daylight Time (PDT). Offset UTC -7:00 hours
4:00 pm16:00 Central Standard Time (CST). Offset UTC -6:00 hours
3:00 pm15:00 PDT / 4:00 pm16:00 CST
PDT | CST |
---|---|
12am (midnight) | 1am |
1am | 2am |
2am | 3am |
3am | 4am |
4am | 5am |
5am | 6am |
6am | 7am |
7am | 8am |
8am | 9am |
9am | 10am |
10am | 11am |
11am | 12pm (noon) |
12pm (noon) | 1pm |
1pm | 2pm |
2pm | 3pm |
3pm | 4pm |
4pm | 5pm |
5pm | 6pm |
6pm | 7pm |
7pm | 8pm |
8pm | 9pm |
9pm | 10pm |
10pm | 11pm |
11pm | 12am (midnight) |
0:00 | 1:00 |
1:00 | 2:00 |
2:00 | 3:00 |
3:00 | 4:00 |
4:00 | 5:00 |
5:00 | 6:00 |
6:00 | 7:00 |
7:00 | 8:00 |
8:00 | 9:00 |
9:00 | 10:00 |
10:00 | 11:00 |
11:00 | 12:00 |
12:00 | 13:00 |
13:00 | 14:00 |
14:00 | 15:00 |
15:00 | 16:00 |
16:00 | 17:00 |
17:00 | 18:00 |
18:00 | 19:00 |
19:00 | 20:00 |
20:00 | 21:00 |
21:00 | 22:00 |
22:00 | 23:00 |
23:00 | 0:00 |
Pacific Standard Time
Offset: PST is 8 hours behind Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) and is used in North America
Countries: It is used in following countries: Canada, Mexico, United States
Principal Cities: The largest city in the PST timezone is Los Angeles from USA with population about 3.793 million people. Other major cities in the area are Vancouver, Tijuana, San Diego, San Jose
French: HNP - Heure Normale du Pacifique
Spanish: PT - Tiempo del Pacífico, PT - Zona Noroeste

Daylight Saving: This is a standard time zone, however during summer some places switch clocks for one hour forward when daylight saving comes into effect and observe Pacific Daylight Time (PDT).
End: Pacific Standard Time (PST) has ended on Sunday, March 9, 2025 at 2:00 am local time and clocks were set one hour forward to Sunday, March 9, 2025, 3:00 am local daylight time instead. Standard time ends annually the on second Sunday of March.
Start: Pacific Standard Time (PST) starts on Sunday, November 2, 2025 at 2:00 am local time and clocks are set one hour back to Sunday, November 2, 2025, 1:00 am. Standard time starts annually the on first Sunday of November.
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 eight hour and zero minutes time differences 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
- Peru Standard Time - UTC -5
- AKDT - Alaska Daylight Time
- PST - Pacific Standard Time
- PT - Pacific Time
- PST - Pitcairn Standard Time
- U - Uniform Time Zone
Central Standard Time
Offset: CST is 6 hours behind Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) and is used in Central America
Countries: It is used in following countries: Belize, Canada, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, El Salvador, United States
Principal Cities: The largest city in the CST timezone is Mexico City from Mexico with population about 12.294 million people. Other major cities in the area are Chicago, Houston, Iztapalapa, Ecatepec
Daylight Saving: Central Standard Time (CST) is not adjusted for daylight saving therefore CST remains the same through out the year. This means, unlike some time zones where the clock is set forward by one hour every summer and backward by one hour during winter to adjust for daylight saving, Central Standard Time remains the same
CST representations, usage and related time zones
- -06 - basic short
- -0600 - basic
- -06:00 - extended
- -0600 - sign character (-) followed by a four digit time providing hours (06) and minutes (00) of the offset. Indicates six hour and zero minutes time differences to the west of the zero meridian.
- Sierra - Military abbreviation for CST
- S - short form of 'Sierra'
- America/Bahia_Banderas
- America/Belize
- America/Chicago
- America/Chihuahua
- America/Costa_Rica
- America/El_Salvador
- America/Guatemala
- America/Indiana/Knox
- America/Indiana/Tell_City
- America/Knox_IN
- America/Managua
- America/Matamoros
- America/Menominee
- America/Merida
- America/Mexico_City
- America/Monterrey
- America/North_Dakota/Beulah
- America/North_Dakota/Center
- America/North_Dakota/New_Salem
- America/Ojinaga
- America/Rainy_River
- America/Rankin_Inlet
- America/Regina
- America/Resolute
- America/Swift_Current
- America/Tegucigalpa
- America/Winnipeg
- CST6CDT
- Canada/Central
- Canada/Saskatchewan
- Mexico/General
- US/Central
- US/Indiana-Starke
- Central Standard Time - UTC -6
- China Standard Time - UTC +8
- Cuba Standard Time - UTC -5
- Colombia Standard Time - UTC -5
- CST - Central Standard Time
- CT - Central Time
- MDT - Mountain Daylight Time
- EAST - Easter Island Standard Time
- GALT - Galapagos Time
- S - Sierra Time Zone