Central Time (CST) is 2 hours ahead of Pacific Time (PST).

Here is every hour of the day in CST and the same moment in PST.

The green rows are the hours when both zones are inside 9 AM to 5 PM. The row marked Now is the hour it is in Central Time right now.

A team split between CT and PT is at work together for 6 hours a day.

Taking 9 AM to 5 PM on each clock as the working day, both zones are at work from 11:00 AM to 5:00 PM CST (9:00 AM to 3:00 PM PST).

A team spread across two time zones has fewer chances to notice someone drifting away. TeamPredict reads public LinkedIn signals to flag resignation risk early, wherever people work.

The gap between CST and PST stays at 2 hours all year.

Both zones are in the United States and move their clocks on the same two Sundays, so the gap holds.

These are the clock changes of both zones in 2026 and 2027.

CST stands for Central Time and PST for Pacific Time on this page.

Central Time is CST (UTC−6) in winter and CDT (UTC−5) in summer. People write CST all year, and this page does too; the clock reads CDT right now. It moves its clocks forward at 2:00 AM on the second Sunday in March and back at 2:00 AM on the first Sunday in November.

Pacific Time is PST (UTC−8) in winter and PDT (UTC−7) in summer. People write PST all year, and this page does too; the clock reads PDT right now. It moves its clocks forward at 2:00 AM on the second Sunday in March and back at 2:00 AM on the first Sunday in November.

These nearby time zone pairs show the time right now too.

• PST to CST
• CST to EST
• CST to IST
• EST to CST
• PST to EST
• PST to IST
• IST to CST

The time zone converter reads one moment on up to 12 clocks, the military time converter turns 24-hour times into AM and PM, and the time duration calculator measures the hours between two moments.