Los Angeles
UTC−7United States · PDT
Thu, 13 Aug 2026
Timezone Guide
Los Angeles, United States runs on UTC−7. Clocks move forward each spring and back each autumn: UTC−8 in winter, UTC−7 in summer. Next change: 1 Nov. There is a 3-hour difference between Los Angeles and New York. Standard 9-to-6 working hours overlap for about 6 hours a day with New York. A good time to connect: 09:00–15:00 in Los Angeles lines up with 12:00–18:00 in New York. There is a 8-hour difference between Los Angeles and London. Standard 9-to-6 working hours overlap for about 1 hours a day with London. A good time to connect: 09:00–10:00 in Los Angeles lines up with 17:00–18:00 in London. There is a 16-hour difference between Los Angeles and Tokyo. Standard 9-to-6 working hours overlap for about 1 hours a day with Tokyo. A good time to connect: 17:00–18:00 in Los Angeles lines up with 09:00–10:00 in Tokyo. This timezone is also shared with cities such as Vancouver, Phoenix, Las Vegas. Keeping these offsets in mind makes it easier to schedule calls or travel to and from Los Angeles.
Practical Info
Los Angeles (United States) is home to roughly 12.9M people. Today brings about 14.4 hours of daylight: sunrise at 05:42, sunset at 20:06. Clocks move forward each spring and back each autumn: UTC−8 in winter, UTC−7 in summer. Next change: 1 Nov. It sits in the Northern Hemisphere, about 34° north of the equator. Traffic drives on the right.
Flag
United States
Capital
Washington, D.C.
Continent
North America
Time Zone
PDT · America/Los_Angeles
Coordinates
34.00°N, 118.24°W
Currency
USD ($)
Calling Code
+1
Driving Side
Right
Hemisphere
Northern
Language
English
Measurement System
Imperial
Did You Know?
Los Angeles Has 3.3 Parking Spaces for Every Car
A team of researchers at Arizona State, UCLA and Georgia Tech once did something nobody had attempted before: they counted the parking in Los Angeles County. All of it, going back to 1900.
The answer, as of 2010, was 18.6 million parking spaces. Three and a half million on the street, five and a half million residential, nine and a half million everywhere else. Against 5.6 million registered vehicles. That is 3.3 parking spaces per car.
It covers about 200 square miles — roughly 14% of the county's incorporated land. Which means Los Angeles, a city internationally famous for its freeway system, has dedicated 40% more land to cars standing still than to cars moving. The parking is bigger than the roads.
Most of it went in between 1950 and 1980, when the county added an average of 310,000 spaces a year. Every year. For thirty years.
And the average commuter still loses well over a hundred hours annually to traffic. Sit with the geometry: three spaces each, and nowhere to be.
The clock: here is the part that never gets mentioned. Los Angeles is the only major city on Earth that runs on somebody else's clock.
The Academy Awards begin in the late afternoon, Pacific time — an absurd hour for a black-tie event — so that New York can watch in prime time. Talk shows tape before dinner. Financial anchors go on air before sunrise, because the markets opened three time zones away. Live sport, awards season, breaking news: all of it scheduled backwards from the other side of the continent.
Los Angeles built the global entertainment industry, put it in the city with the best light in America, and then agreed to run the whole thing on East Coast time.
Sources
- Chester, Fraser, Matute, Flower & Pendyala (2015), "Parking Infrastructure: A Constraint on or Opportunity for Urban Redevelopment?", Journal of the American Planning Association
- ACCESS Magazine summary
- Streetsblog LA
- ASU press release
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