About CET to PST Time
CET covers Paris, Berlin, Madrid, Rome, Amsterdam and Stockholm. PST covers Los Angeles, San Francisco, Seattle, Las Vegas and Vancouver.
Normal working days barely overlap: when one side starts, the other has finished. Calls usually mean early morning for one and evening for the other — the timeline above shows exactly how early.
Both regions use daylight saving, so the gap holds for most of the year — except for the week or two each spring and autumn when they switch on different dates.
How it works
Pacific Time (Los Angeles) is always 9 hours behind of Central European Time (Paris, Berlin).
- Take the CET time you want to convert.
- Subtract 9 hours.
- Roll the date forward or back if the result crosses midnight.
Neither side changes its clocks relative to the other, so this gap holds all year.
Zone details: CET is +1 in winter and +2 in summer (UTC), PST is −8 in winter and −7 in summer.
Examples
A working day in CET, seen from PST:
| CET | PST |
|---|---|
| 09:00 CET | 00:00 PST |
| 12:00 CET | 03:00 PST |
| 15:00 CET | 06:00 PST |
| 18:00 CET | 09:00 PST |
| 21:00 CET | 12:00 PST |
Meetings usually work best where the two working days overlap. Drag the timeline above to see the overlap for any hour, or use the full time zone converter for any other pair of cities.
CET to PST Time: frequently asked questions
- What is the time difference between CET and PST?
- PST is 9 hours behind CET in standard time (CET is UTC+1, PST is UTC−8). The gap can change by an hour for part of the year because CET observes daylight saving (CEST) and PST observes daylight saving (PDT), and the US and Europe switch on different dates (March and late October/early November).
- What is 9 AM CET in PST?
- 9:00 AM CET is 12:00 AM PST (standard time).
- Where is CET used?
- Central European Time (UTC+1) is used in the Paris, Berlin, Rome, Madrid.
- Where is PST used?
- Pacific Standard Time (UTC−8) is used in US West Coast (Los Angeles, Seattle).