CST to PST converter

Enter a Central time and see the Pacific equivalent for that exact date, with the whole day in one table.

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Every hour of the day, CST to PST

Two hours apart, with the most comfortable shared working day of the US pairs. Change the date above and this table follows it.

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This page is fixed to Central Time and Pacific Time. For any other two places, or to see every US zone and world city at once, use the full time zone converter — it covers 97 cities, flags daylight-saving gaps, and includes a meeting planner.

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Two hours, and a genuinely workable overlap

Central to Pacific is a subtraction of two hours on every date. Both zones follow the same daylight-saving calendar, so the gap does not move through the year.

Central time − 2 hours = Pacific time, all year round

The friendliest of the American long-haul pairs

Two hours leaves a substantial shared day. Standard office hours in Chicago, 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM, map to 7:00 AM to 3:00 PM in Los Angeles, so the overlap from 11:00 AM Central through to 5:00 PM Central is comfortable for both sides. Compared with the coast-to-coast three-hour gap, this pair rarely forces anyone into an unpleasant hour.

Where each zone reaches

Central covers Texas, Illinois, Missouri, Minnesota, Louisiana, Tennessee's western half and most of the plains. Pacific covers California, Washington, Oregon and most of Nevada. Between them sits Mountain, so a Central-to-Pacific conversion skips a zone: if a third participant is in Denver or Phoenix they are one hour behind you and one hour ahead of the West Coast, or in Arizona's case, sometimes level with it.

The edges of the day

Anything before 2:00 AM Central falls on the previous date in Pacific, which matters for scheduled jobs and overnight batch windows more than for meetings. A midnight Central cut-off has already passed at 10:00 PM the previous evening on the West Coast.

Frequently asked questions

What time is 10 AM CST in PST?
8:00 AM Pacific, same date. Subtract two hours from any Central time.
Is Pacific always two hours behind Central?
Yes. Both zones change their clocks on the same dates, so the two-hour difference is constant all year.
What is a good meeting time between Chicago and Los Angeles?
Late morning Central works well: 11:00 AM in Chicago is 9:00 AM in Los Angeles, inside normal hours for both.
Does Arizona fit between these two zones?
Not consistently. Phoenix stays on UTC−7 all year, so it matches Pacific in summer and sits an hour ahead of it in winter.

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