Time in Los Angeles, California, United States

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Current time in United States

Time zone: PDT (UTC/GMT -07:00) — America/Los_Angeles

 
Standard Time Zone: Pacific Standard Time (PST) = UTC-8
Daylight Saving Time Zone: Pacific Daylight Time (PDT) = UTC-7

Los Angeles, officially the City of Los Angeles and often known by its initials L.A., is the second-largest city in the United States after New York City, the most populous city in the state of California, and the county seat of Los Angeles County. Situated in Southern California, Los Angeles is known for its mediterranean climate, ethnic diversity, sprawling metropolis, and as a major center of the American entertainment industry. Los Angeles lies in a large coastal basin surrounded on three sides by mountains reaching up to and over 10,000 feet (3,000 m).
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Time zone in Los Angeles

The local standard in Los Angeles is PDT — UTC-07:00, or 7 hours behind UTC. Systems that store time zones by name use America/Los_Angeles for this part of the world.

Daylight saving applies here. Clocks next move back 1 hour on Sunday, 01 November 2026, putting Los Angeles on PST and changing its gap to every other zone listed below.

United States is not on a single clock: the 419 cities listed here fall across 10 time zones, so times elsewhere in the country will not match Los Angeles.

Time difference between Los Angeles and other cities

How Los Angeles lines up against other major centres at this moment — the numbers move when either side changes its clocks.

New York UTC-04:00 Los Angeles is 3 hours behind
London UTC+01:00 Los Angeles is 8 hours behind
Paris UTC+02:00 Los Angeles is 9 hours behind
Dubai UTC+04:00 Los Angeles is 11 hours behind
Mumbai UTC+05:30 Los Angeles is 12 hours 30 minutes behind
Shanghai UTC+08:00 Los Angeles is 15 hours behind
Tokyo UTC+09:00 Los Angeles is 16 hours behind
Sydney UTC+10:00 Los Angeles is 17 hours behind
Sao Paulo UTC-03:00 Los Angeles is 4 hours behind

Best time to call Los Angeles

Assuming a 09:00–17:00 day at both ends, these windows (in Los Angeles local time) fall inside working hours for both cities.

New York 09:00–14:00 in Los Angeles 5 hours overlap
Sao Paulo 09:00–13:00 in Los Angeles 4 hours overlap

No shared working window exists with London, Paris, Dubai or Mumbai, so those calls have to sit outside somebody's normal hours.

Sharing Los Angeles's time zone

Same zone, same time — each of these sits on America/Los_Angeles alongside Los Angeles, including through any clock change.

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