Eastern Time (EST) is 12 hours behind Philippine Time (PHT).

Here is every hour of the day in EST and the same moment in PHT.

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 Eastern Time right now.

A team split between ET and Manila is never at work together between 9 AM and 5 PM.

Taking 9 AM to 5 PM on each clock as the working day, the two zones are never at work at the same moment, so a meeting means an early start or a late finish on one side.

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 EST and PHT moves between 12 hours and 13 hours during the year.

Philippine Time never changes its clocks, but the United States does, so the gap moves by an hour each time Eastern Time moves.

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

EST stands for Eastern Time and PHT for Philippine Time on this page.

Eastern Time is EST (UTC−5) in winter and EDT (UTC−4) in summer. People write EST all year, and this page does too; the clock reads EDT 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.

Philippine Time is UTC+8 all year, and this page follows Manila. The Philippines does not change its clocks.

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

• PHT to EST
• EST to PST
• EST to CST
• EST to MST
• EST to IST
• EST to GMT
• EST to UTC

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.