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5:00 am05:00 PDT (UTC-7), Oct 17, 2026 = 9:00 am09:00 PYT (UTC-3), Oct 17, 2026

PDT is 4 hours behind PYT.

How the time difference changes

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

For most of the year, working hours of 9:00 am to 6:00 pm in PT correspond to 1:00 pm to 10:00 pm in PYT. At other times of the year, working hours of 9:00 am to 6:00 pm in PT correspond to 2:00 pm to 11:00 pm in PYT.For most of the year, working hours of 09:00 to 18:00 in PT correspond to 13:00 to 22:00 in PYT. At other times of the year, working hours of 09:00 to 18:00 in PT correspond to 14:00 to 23:00 in PYT.

Compare PT time with PYT 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 Time.
5:00 am05:00 in PDT is 9:00 am09:00 in PYT

PDT to PYT call time
Best time for a conference call or a meeting is between 9am-2pm09:00-14:00 in PDT which corresponds to 1pm-6pm13:00-18:00 in PYT

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

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

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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

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 Time

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

Countries using this time zone: Paraguay

Principal Cities: The largest city in the PYT 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 Time (PYT) do not change for daylight saving time, so PYT stays the same throughout the year. Other time zones may set clocks forward in summer and back in winter; see upcoming clock changes worldwide.

PYT 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 PYT
  • 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 - Brasilia Time
  • CLST - Chile Summer Time
  • FKST - Falkland Islands Summer Time
  • FKT - Falkland Islands Time
  • GFT - French Guiana Time
  • P - Papa Time Zone
  • PYST - Paraguay Summer Time
  • PYT - Paraguay Time
  • SRT - Suriname Time
  • UYT - Uruguay Time