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5:00 am05:00 PDT (UTC-7), Oct 13, 2026 = 9:00 am09:00 PYST (UTC-3), Oct 13, 2026

PDT is 4 hours behind PYST.

How the time difference changes

For most of the year, PT is 4 hours behind PYST. From Nov 1, 2026 to Mar 14, 2027, PT is 5 hours behind PYST.

For most of the year, working hours of 9:00 am to 5:00 pm in PT correspond to 1:00 pm to 9:00 pm in PYST. At other times of the year, working hours of 9:00 am to 5:00 pm in PT correspond to 2:00 pm to 10:00 pm in PYST.For most of the year, working hours of 09:00 to 17:00 in PT correspond to 13:00 to 21:00 in PYST. At other times of the year, working hours of 09:00 to 17:00 in PT correspond to 14:00 to 22:00 in PYST.

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

Time Difference

Pacific Daylight Time is 4 hours behind Paraguay Summer Time.
5:00 am05:00 in PDT is 9:00 am09:00 in PYST

PDT to PYST call time
Best time for a conference call or a meeting is between 9am-1pm09:00-13:00 in PDT which corresponds to 1pm-5pm13:00-17:00 in PYST

5:00 am05:00 Pacific Daylight Time (PDT). Offset UTC -7:00 hours
9:00 am09:00 Paraguay Summer Time (PYST). Offset UTC -3:00 hours

5:00 am05:00 PDT / 9:00 am09:00 PYST

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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 the United States and Canada. 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 part of Canada, the United States and the Northwestern part of Mexico.

Countries using this time zone: Canada, 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

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 PT
  • U - short form of 'Uniform'
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

Paraguay Summer Time

Offset: PYST is 3 hours behind Greenwich Mean Time (GMT).

Countries using this time zone: Paraguay

Principal Cities: The largest city in the PYST time zone is Asunción in Paraguay, with about 1.482 million people. Other major cities in this time zone include Ciudad del Este, Pedro Juan Caballero, Encarnación, Villa Hayes.

Daylight Saving: Clocks in Paraguay Summer Time (PYST) do not change for daylight saving time, so PYST stays the same throughout the year. Other time zones may set clocks forward in summer and back in winter; see upcoming clock changes worldwide.

PYST representations, usage and related time zones

W3C/ISO-8601: International standard covering representation and exchange of dates and time-related data
  • -03 - basic short
  • -0300 - basic
  • -03:00 - extended
Email/RFC-2822: Internet Message Format Date Standard, typically used for timestamps in email headers
  • -0300 - sign character (-) followed by a four digit time providing hours (03) and minutes (00) of the offset. Indicates an offset of three hours to the west of the zero meridian.
Military/NATO: Used by the U.S. military, Chinese military and others
  • Papa - Military abbreviation for PYST
  • P - short form of 'Papa'
Time zones with the GMT -3 offset:
  • ADT - Atlantic Daylight Time
  • PMT - Pierre & Miquelon Standard Time
  • PMST - Pierre & Miquelon Standard Time
  • AMST - Amazon Summer Time
  • ART - Argentina Time
  • BRT - Brasília time
  • CLST - Chile Summer Time
  • FKST - Falkland Islands Summer Time
  • GFT - French Guiana Time
  • P - Papa Time Zone
  • PYST - Paraguay Summer Time
  • SRT - Suriname Time
  • UYT - Uruguay Time