Pacific Time (PST) is 2 hours behind Central Time (CST).

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

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 Pacific Time right now.

A team split between PT and CT 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 9:00 AM to 3:00 PM PST (11:00 AM to 5:00 PM CST).

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 PST and CST 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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.