PST
Pacific Standard Time
GMT -8
12am
3am
6am
9am
12pm
3pm
6pm
9pm
SST
Samoa Standard Time
GMT -11
12am
3am
6am
9am
12pm
3pm
6pm
9pm

Quick answers

PST is 3 hours ahead of SST. PST uses GMT -8, and SST uses GMT -11 for this comparison.

For example, 4:00 am PST is 1:00 am SST. Use the converter above to adjust the date or time and create a shareable meeting link.

Best meeting overlap: 12pm-5pm PST, which is 9am-2pm SST.

PST is a fixed UTC-8 standard-time offset. For current Pacific Time, compare PDT to SST or PT to SST.

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

Time Difference

Pacific Standard Time is 3 hours ahead of Samoa Standard Time
4:00 am04:00 in PST is 1:00 am01:00 in SST

PST to SST call time
Best time for a conference call or a meeting is between 12pm-5pm in PST which corresponds to 9am-2pm in SST

4:00 am04:00 Pacific Standard Time (PST). Offset UTC -8:00 hours
1:00 am01:00 Samoa Standard Time (SST). Offset UTC -11:00 hours

4:00 am04:00 PST / 1:00 am01:00 SST

PSTSST
12am (midnight)9pm
1am10pm
2am11pm
3am12am (midnight)
4am1am
5am2am
6am3am
7am4am
8am5am
9am6am
10am7am
11am8am
12pm (noon)9am
1pm10am
2pm11am
3pm12pm (noon)
4pm1pm
5pm2pm
6pm3pm
7pm4pm
8pm5pm
9pm6pm
10pm7pm
11pm8pm
00:0021:00
01:0022:00
02:0023:00
03:0000:00
04:0001:00
05:0002:00
06:0003:00
07:0004:00
08:0005:00
09:0006:00
10:0007:00
11:0008:00
12:0009:00
13:0010:00
14:0011:00
15:0012:00
16:0013:00
17:0014:00
18:0015:00
19:0016:00
20:0017:00
21:0018:00
22:0019:00
23:0020:00

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 PacĂ­fico, PT - Zona Noroeste

PST Time Zone Geo Map
PST timezone map

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).

Daylight saving time clock moves back for one hour from 2am to 1amStart: Pacific Standard Time (PST) started on Sunday, November 2, 2025 at 2:00 am local time and clocks were set one hour back to Sunday, November 2, 2025, 1:00 am. Standard time starts annually on the first Sunday of November.

Daylight saving time clock moves forward for one hour from 2am to 3amEnd: Pacific Standard Time (PST) ends on Sunday, March 8, 2026 at 2:00 am local time and clocks are set one hour forward to Sunday, March 8, 2026, 3:00 am local daylight time instead. Standard time ends annually on the second Sunday of March.

PST representations, usage and related time zones

W3C/ISO-8601: International standard covering representation and exchange of dates and time-related data
  • -08 - basic short
  • -0800 - basic
  • -08:00 - extended
Email/RFC-2822: Internet Message Format Date Standard, typically used for timestamps in email headers
  • -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.
Military/NATO: Used by the U.S. military, Chinese military and others
  • Uniform - Military abbreviation for PST
  • U - short form of 'Uniform'
IANA/Olson: Reflects PST 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
PST Abbreviation: Several time zones share PST abbreviation and it could refer to these time zones
  • Pacific Standard Time - UTC -8
  • Pitcairn Standard Time - UTC -8
Time zones with the GMT -8 offset:
  • AKDT - Alaska Daylight Time
  • PST - Pacific Standard Time
  • PT - Pacific Time
  • PST - Pitcairn Standard Time
  • U - Uniform Time Zone

Samoa Standard Time

Offset: SST is 11 hours behind Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) and is used in Pacific

Countries using this time zone: Samoa (American), US minor outlying islands

Principal Cities: The largest city in the SST time zone is Pago Pago in American Samoa, with about 11,500 people.

Daylight Saving: Clocks in Samoa Standard Time (SST) do not change for daylight saving time, so SST stays the same throughout the year. Other time zones may set clocks forward in summer and back in winter.

SST Time Zone Geo Map
SST timezone map

SST representations, usage and related time zones

W3C/ISO-8601: International standard covering representation and exchange of dates and time-related data
  • -11 - basic short
  • -1100 - basic
  • -11:00 - extended
Email/RFC-2822: Internet Message Format Date Standard, typically used for timestamps in email headers
  • -1100 - sign character (-) followed by a four digit time providing hours (11) and minutes (00) of the offset. Indicates an offset of eleven hours to the west of the zero meridian.
Military/NATO: Used by the U.S. military, Chinese military and others
  • X-ray - Military abbreviation for SST
  • X - short form of 'X-ray'
IANA/Olson: Reflects SST time zone boundaries defined by political bodies, primarily intended for use with computer programs and operating systems
  • Pacific/Midway
  • Pacific/Pago_Pago
  • Pacific/Samoa
  • US/Samoa
Time zones with the GMT -11 offset:
  • NUT - Niue Time
  • SST - Samoa Standard Time
  • X - X-ray Time Zone