Los Angeles — America/Los_Angeles
The current local time in the America/Los_Angeles IANA time zone is shown below. It is the tz database identifier used in United States. The zone is currently at UTC -07:00 · PDT and observes daylight saving time.
America/Los_Angeles
Thursday, 22 October 2026 PDT
Zone information
Countries using America/Los_Angeles
Los Angeles vs. major cities
How far Los Angeles is from the world's main business centres right now, what time it is there when the working day starts in Los Angeles, and which hours of a 09:00–17:00 day the two places share. Daylight saving changes are applied automatically.
| City | Difference | At 09:00 in Los Angeles | Shared office hours |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York · United States | +3 h | 12:00 | 09:00–14:00 |
| São Paulo · Brazil | +4 h | 13:00 | 09:00–13:00 |
| London · United Kingdom | +8 h | 17:00 | None |
| Paris · France | +9 h | 18:00 | None |
| Johannesburg · South Africa | +9 h | 18:00 | None |
| Dubai · United Arab Emirates | +11 h | 20:00 | None |
| Delhi · India | +12:30 h | 21:30 | None |
| Singapore · Singapore | +15 h | 00:00 (next day) | None |
| Beijing · China | +15 h | 00:00 (next day) | None |
| Tokyo · Japan | +16 h | 01:00 (next day) | None |
Shared office hours are shown in Los Angeles time. Compare any set of cities hour by hour in the time zone converter, or pick a slot that suits everyone with the event planner.
Clock changes in Los Angeles
Los Angeles has alternated between UTC -08:00 in standard time and UTC -07:00 in daylight saving time since at least 1970. Clocks currently go forward on the second Sunday in March and back on the first Sunday in November, a rule in place since 2007.
| Date | Change | Local clock | New offset |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sunday, 8 March 2026 | Forward 1 hour | 02:00 → 03:00 | UTC -07:00 |
| Sunday, 1 November 2026 | Back 1 hour | 02:00 → 01:00 | UTC -08:00 |
| Sunday, 14 March 2027 | Forward 1 hour | 02:00 → 03:00 | UTC -07:00 |
| Sunday, 7 November 2027 | Back 1 hour | 02:00 → 01:00 | UTC -08:00 |
When clocks go forward, sunrise and sunset both happen an hour later by the clock — darker mornings, lighter evenings — and the night of the change is an hour shorter. When they go back, the reverse applies.
Source: IANA tz database, as shipped with the Unicode ICU library.
Cities in this zone
Zones on the same clock as Los Angeles
All IANA zones →These zones show the same time as America/Los_Angeles on every day of 2026, changing their clocks at the same moments. Their histories may differ.
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