PST to GMT to Boston, MA, USA
Compare PST time with GMT and Boston 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 Greenwich Mean Time and 3 hours behind EDT (Eastern Daylight Time)
1:00 am01:00 in PDT is 8:00 am08:00 in GMT and is 4:00 am04:00 in Boston, MA, USA
PDT to GMT call time
Best time for a conference call or a meeting is between 9am-10am in PDT which corresponds to 4pm-5pm in GMT
PDT to Boston call time
Best time for a conference call or a meeting is between 9am-2pm in PDT which corresponds to 12pm-5pm in Boston
1:00 am01:00 Pacific Daylight Time (PDT). Offset UTC -7:00 hours
8:00 am08:00 Greenwich Mean Time (GMT). Offset UTC 0:00 hours
4:00 am04:00 EDT (Eastern Daylight Time) (Boston, MA, USA). Offset UTC -4:00 hours
1:00 am01:00 PDT / 8:00 am08:00 GMT / 4:00 am04:00 Boston, MA, USA
| PDT | GMT | Boston, MA, USA |
|---|---|---|
| 12am (midnight) | 7am | 3am |
| 1am | 8am | 4am |
| 2am | 9am | 5am |
| 3am | 10am | 6am |
| 4am | 11am | 7am |
| 5am | 12pm (noon) | 8am |
| 6am | 1pm | 9am |
| 7am | 2pm | 10am |
| 8am | 3pm | 11am |
| 9am | 4pm | 12pm (noon) |
| 10am | 5pm | 1pm |
| 11am | 6pm | 2pm |
| 12pm (noon) | 7pm | 3pm |
| 1pm | 8pm | 4pm |
| 2pm | 9pm | 5pm |
| 3pm | 10pm | 6pm |
| 4pm | 11pm | 7pm |
| 5pm | 12am (midnight) | 8pm |
| 6pm | 1am | 9pm |
| 7pm | 2am | 10pm |
| 8pm | 3am | 11pm |
| 9pm | 4am | 12am (midnight) |
| 10pm | 5am | 1am |
| 11pm | 6am | 2am |
| 00:00 | 07:00 | 03:00 |
| 01:00 | 08:00 | 04:00 |
| 02:00 | 09:00 | 05:00 |
| 03:00 | 10:00 | 06:00 |
| 04:00 | 11:00 | 07:00 |
| 05:00 | 12:00 | 08:00 |
| 06:00 | 13:00 | 09:00 |
| 07:00 | 14:00 | 10:00 |
| 08:00 | 15:00 | 11:00 |
| 09:00 | 16:00 | 12:00 |
| 10:00 | 17:00 | 13:00 |
| 11:00 | 18:00 | 14:00 |
| 12:00 | 19:00 | 15:00 |
| 13:00 | 20:00 | 16:00 |
| 14:00 | 21:00 | 17:00 |
| 15:00 | 22:00 | 18:00 |
| 16:00 | 23:00 | 19:00 |
| 17:00 | 00:00 | 20:00 |
| 18:00 | 01:00 | 21:00 |
| 19:00 | 02:00 | 22:00 |
| 20:00 | 03:00 | 23:00 |
| 21:00 | 04:00 | 00:00 |
| 22:00 | 05:00 | 01:00 |
| 23:00 | 06:00 | 02:00 |
Pacific Standard Time
Offset: PST is 8 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 PST time zone is Los Angeles in the United States, with about 3.793 million people. Other major cities in this time zone include 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. During summer, some places set clocks forward one hour for daylight saving time and observe Pacific Daylight Time (PDT).
End: Pacific Standard Time (PST) ended on Sunday, March 14, 2021 at 2:00 am local time and clocks were set one hour forward to Sunday, March 14, 2021, 3:00 am local daylight time instead. Standard time ends annually on the second Sunday of March.
Start: Pacific Standard Time (PST) starts on Sunday, November 7, 2021 at 2:00 am local time and clocks are set one hour back to Sunday, November 7, 2021, 1:00 am. Standard time starts annually on the 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 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
Greenwich Mean Time
Offset: GMT is 0 hours ahead Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) and is used in Europe
Countries using this time zone: Burkina Faso, Côte d'Ivoire, Ghana, Greenland, Gambia, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Iceland, Liberia, Mali, Mauritania, St Helena, Sierra Leone, Senegal, Sao Tome & Principe, Togo
Principal Cities: The largest city in the GMT time zone is Abidjan in Ivory Coast, with about 3.677 million people. Other major cities in this time zone include Dakar, Grand Dakar, Accra, Camayenne.
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 for the most parts it is the same. In military GMT is known as Zulu time.Greenwich Mean Time was the same as Universal Time (UT), until the introduction of UTC in 1972 a standard astronomical concept used in many technical fields.
GMT representations, usage and related time zones
- Z - is the zone designator for the zero UTC/GMT offset, also known as 'Zulu' time
- +00 - basic short
- +0000 - basic
- +00:00 - extended
- +0000 - sign character (+) followed by a four digit time providing hours (00) and minutes (00) of the offset. Indicates the zero UTC/GMT offset.
- Zulu - Military abbreviation for GMT
- Z - short form of 'Zulu'
- Africa/Abidjan
- Africa/Accra
- Africa/Bamako
- Africa/Banjul
- Africa/Bissau
- Africa/Conakry
- Africa/Dakar
- Africa/Freetown
- Africa/Lome
- Africa/Monrovia
- Africa/Nouakchott
- Africa/Ouagadougou
- Africa/Sao_Tome
- Africa/Timbuktu
- America/Danmarkshavn
- Atlantic/Reykjavik
- Atlantic/St_Helena
- Eire
- Etc/GMT
- Etc/GMT+0
- Etc/GMT-0
- Etc/GMT0
- Etc/Greenwich
- Europe/Belfast
- Europe/Dublin
- Europe/Guernsey
- Europe/Isle_of_Man
- Europe/Jersey
- Europe/London
- GB
- GB-Eire
- GMT
- GMT+0
- GMT-0
- GMT0
- Greenwich
- Iceland
- 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
Boston Information
Time Zone
EST - Eastern Standard Time
-5:00 hours during Eastern Standard Time.
Sunday, March 8, 2026 at 2:00 am local time. DST starts annually on the 2nd Sunday of March. Clocks are turned forward 1 hour to Sunday, March 8, 2026 at 3:00 am local daylight time instead. Also called Spring Forward or Summer Time.Sunday, November 1, 2026 at 2:00 am local time. DST ends annually on the 1st Sunday of November. Clocks are turned backward 1 hour to Sunday, November 1, 2026 at 1:00 am local standard time instead. Also called Fall Back or switch to Winter Time.