PT to MST Converter
Mountain Time is on daylight saving time: MDT (UTC−6) until Sun, Nov 1.
Arizona stays on MST (UTC−7).
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5:00 am05:00 PDT (UTC-7), Oct 16, 2026 = 6:00 am06:00 MDT (UTC-6), Oct 16, 2026
PDT is 1 hour behind MDT.
How the time difference changes
For most of the year, PT is 1 hour behind MDT. From Nov 1, 2026 to Mar 14, 2027, PT is 1 hour behind MST. Briefly around clock changes, PT and MST have the same time or PT is 2 hours behind MDT.
For most of the year, working hours of 9:00 am to 6:00 pm in PT correspond to 10:00 am to 7:00 pm in MDT. At other times of the year, working hours of 9:00 am to 6:00 pm in PT correspond to 10:00 am to 7:00 pm in MST.For most of the year, working hours of 09:00 to 18:00 in PT correspond to 10:00 to 19:00 in MDT. At other times of the year, working hours of 09:00 to 18:00 in PT correspond to 10:00 to 19:00 in MST.
Compare PT time with MST time, including current local time, UTC offsets, time difference, daylight saving changes, working hours, and shareable meeting times.
Time Difference
Pacific Daylight Time is 1 hour behind Mountain Daylight Time.
5:00 am05:00 in PDT is 6:00 am06:00 in MDT
PDT to MDT call time
Best time for a conference call or a meeting is between 9am-5pm09:00-17:00 in PDT which corresponds to 10am-6pm10:00-18:00 in MDT
5:00 am05:00 Pacific Daylight Time (PDT). Offset UTC -7:00 hours
6:00 am06:00 Mountain Daylight Time (MDT). Offset UTC -6:00 hours
5:00 am05:00 PDT / 6:00 am06:00 MDT
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Pacific Time
Pacific Time (PT) is a general term used to describe the areas that observe either the Pacific Standard Time (PST) or Pacific Daylight Time (PDT) in North America. PT also called Pacific Coast Time. PT is not static but switches between PDT and PST.
Territories observing the Pacific Time Zone are primarily in North America. It runs through the western United States and the Northwestern part of Mexico. From November 1, 2026, most of British Columbia in Canada keeps UTC-7 all year instead.
Countries using this time zone: Mexico, United States
Principal Cities: The largest city in the PT 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
PT 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 PT
- U - short form of 'Uniform'
- AKDT - Alaska Daylight Time
- PST - Pacific Standard Time
- PT - Pacific Time
- PST - Pitcairn Standard Time
- U - Uniform Time Zone
Mountain Standard Time
Offset: MST is 7 hours behind Greenwich Mean Time (GMT).
Countries using this time zone: Canada, Mexico, United States
Principal Cities: The largest city in the MST time zone is Phoenix in the United States, with about 1.65 million people. Other major cities in this time zone include Ciudad Juárez, Hermosillo, Culiacán, Denver.
French: HNR - Heure Normale des Rocheuses
Spanish: MT - Zona Pacífico
Today the lighter areas are on UTC−6 (MDT).
Daylight Saving: This is a standard time zone. During summer, some places set clocks forward one hour for daylight saving time and observe Mountain Daylight Time (MDT).
End: Mountain Standard Time (MST) ended on Sunday, March 8, 2026 at 2:00 am02:00 local time and clocks were set one hour forward to Sunday, March 8, 2026, 3:00 am03:00 local daylight time instead. Standard time ends annually on the second Sunday of March.
Start: Mountain Standard Time (MST) starts on Sunday, November 1, 2026 at 2:00 am02:00 local time and clocks are set one hour back to Sunday, November 1, 2026, 1:00 am01:00. Standard time starts annually on the first Sunday of November.
See USA daylight saving time and upcoming clock changes worldwide.
MST representations, usage and related time zones
- -07 - basic short
- -0700 - basic
- -07:00 - extended
- -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.
- Tango - Military abbreviation for MST
- T - short form of 'Tango'
- America/Boise
- America/Cambridge_Bay
- America/Ciudad_Juarez
- America/Creston
- America/Dawson
- America/Dawson_Creek
- America/Denver
- America/Edmonton
- America/Fort_Nelson
- America/Hermosillo
- America/Inuvik
- America/Mazatlan
- America/Phoenix
- America/Shiprock
- America/Whitehorse
- America/Yellowknife
- Canada/Mountain
- Canada/Yukon
- MST
- MST7MDT
- Mexico/BajaSur
- Navajo
- US/Arizona
- US/Mountain
- MST - Mountain Standard Time
- PDT - Pacific Daylight Time
- YST - Yukon Standard Time
- T - Tango Time Zone