Live clocks for Los Angeles and New York, the exact difference as it stands today, a converter preset to this pair, and the full 24-hour comparison table — daylight saving handled on both sides.
Converting from Los Angeles time
The full day in Los Angeles on today, with the matching time in New York:
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Both clocks above are read live from the IANA time-zone database built into your browser — the same rule set your phone uses. “Difference today” is not a fixed fact about this pair of cities: it is computed from the two zones’ offsets right now, which is why it can legitimately read differently if you open this page in a different month.
New York is always exactly 3 hours ahead of Los Angeles. Both cities follow the same US daylight-saving calendar (spring forward the second Sunday of March, fall back the first Sunday of November), so the 3-hour gap never changes — the only pair on this page set simpler than this one is a same-zone pair.
The 24-hour table walks the whole of today in Los Angeles, hour by hour, and prints the matching moment in New York — including the rows where New York is still on yesterday, or already on tomorrow, which are marked +1 day or −1 day. Those edge rows are exactly the ones people get wrong doing the maths in their head.
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Free — try itNew York is always exactly 3 hours ahead of Los Angeles. Both cities follow the same US daylight-saving calendar (spring forward the second Sunday of March, fall back the first Sunday of November), so the 3-hour gap never changes — the only pair on this page set simpler than this one is a same-zone pair.
12:00 PM — that is 9:00 AM in Los Angeles converted on any date — both cities change their clocks on the same US schedule. Check it any time with the converter above: the answer is worked out from the two zones’ offsets on the date you pick, so it stays right when the clocks change.
Yes, on the clock-change dates. New York is always exactly 3 hours ahead of Los Angeles. Both cities follow the same US daylight-saving calendar (spring forward the second Sunday of March, fall back the first Sunday of November), so the 3-hour gap never changes — the only pair on this page set simpler than this one is a same-zone pair.
The coasts overlap for most of the working day: 9:00 AM–2:00 PM in Los Angeles is 12:00–5:00 PM in New York. The pinch point is the morning — a 9:00 AM New York start is 6:00 AM in Los Angeles, before most people are at their desks.
From timestamps and the IANA time-zone database inside your browser — the live rules for each zone, including daylight-saving start and end dates and southern-hemisphere seasons where relevant. Nothing is hard-coded: open this page on a clock-change day and the clocks, the difference and the 24-hour table all follow the new offsets automatically.
Two offsets and one subtraction — the same method the converter at the top of this page runs:
Take 9:00 AM in Los Angeles, on any date — both cities change their clocks on the same US schedule. Adding the pair’s difference for that date gives 12:00 PM in New York. The subtlety is that the difference itself is date-dependent for most pairs: repeat the same conversion in a month when one city has changed its clocks and the answer moves by an hour. That is why this page never prints a single fixed “the difference is X” without the word today next to it.
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