PST to CST converter
CST is 2 hours ahead of PST. PST and CST are exactly 2 hours apart on every day of the year. The full hour-by-hour table is below, and it reads perfectly well with JavaScript turned off. No account, no email address.
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PST to CST, hour by hour
Shaded rows are inside a nine-to-five working day in both Los Angeles and Chicago.
| PST | CST |
|---|---|
| 6:00am | 8:00am |
| 7:00am | 9:00am |
| 8:00am | 10:00am |
| 9:00am | 11:00am |
| 10:00am | 12:00pm |
| 11:00am | 1:00pm |
| 12:00pm | 2:00pm |
| 1:00pm | 3:00pm |
| 2:00pm | 4:00pm |
| 3:00pm | 5:00pm |
| 4:00pm | 6:00pm |
| 5:00pm | 7:00pm |
| 6:00pm | 8:00pm |
| 7:00pm | 9:00pm |
| 8:00pm | 10:00pm |
| 9:00pm | 11:00pm |
| 10:00pm | 12:00am next day |
PST to CST never changes by an hour
Both are United States zones, both change their clocks on the second Sunday in March and the first Sunday in November, and both move by the same hour on the same morning. There is no date on which this conversion is anything other than 2 hours ahead.
What changes is the name. Between March and November those same two clocks are properly called PDT and CDT, for Pacific Daylight Time and Central Daylight Time. Almost nobody switches, and it does not matter here: whoever writes PST in July has the right time and the wrong letters.
PST and CST
- Same all year
- Yes
- Shared office hours
- 6 hours
Booking a call between Los Angeles and Chicago
You share about 6 hours of a normal nine-to-five day. 9:00am to 3:00pm in PST is 11:00am to 5:00pm in CST, inside office hours at both ends, and the only window where neither side is doing you a favour.
When it is 9:00am in Los Angeles it is 11:00am in Chicago. When Chicago opens at 9:00am, Los Angeles reads 7:00am.
PST covers the US west coast and British Columbia: Los Angeles, San Francisco, Seattle, Vancouver, San Diego. CST covers the US midwest, Texas and central Canada: Chicago, Dallas, Houston, Winnipeg, Mexico City.
PDT to CDT is the same conversion
PDT to CDT describes exactly the same 2 hours shift as PST to CST. The letters differ because they name the winter and summer forms of the same clocks; the arithmetic does not differ at all.
So the table above answers that query too. There is no second page to look for, and no version of the year in which the answer is different.
PST to CST: common questions
What time is it in CST when it is 9am PST?
11:00am. CST is 2 hours ahead of PST. The table above runs the same conversion for every hour of the day.
Is PST to CST ever a different number of hours?
No. Both are United States zones and both change their clocks on the same two mornings, so the difference is 2 hours in January and the same in July. The abbreviations change to PDT and CDT in summer; the gap does not.
Does converting PST to CST ever change the date?
For most of the working day, no: the two clocks stay on the same calendar day. Late evening and very early morning can straddle midnight, which is why the table above shows the day alongside the time.
What is a good time to schedule a call between PST and CST?
You share about 6 hours of the normal nine-to-five working day: 9:00am to 3:00pm in PST is 11:00am to 5:00pm in CST. Anything inside that window is inside office hours at both ends.
Is this PST to CST converter free?
Yes, completely. No account, no email address, no trial. The table works with JavaScript turned off and nothing you type is sent anywhere.
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