Boston ↔ Los Angeles time converter
Los Angeles is 3 hours behind Boston.
Type a time in either city — 4pm, 4:30 PM and 16:00 all work — or pick one from the ▾ menu, and the other city updates instantly. The clocks load showing the current time in Boston, United States and Los Angeles, United States.
Boston
United States
America/New_York
Los Angeles
United States
America/Los_Angeles
Business-hours overlap
Working day (9:00–17:00) in each city, drawn on Boston's clock.
Boston 9–17
Los Angeles 9–17
Overlap
Zone details
- Boston
- America/New_York
- Los Angeles
- America/Los_Angeles
- Offset
- —
- DST
- Both Boston and Los Angeles observe daylight saving time, so the gap between them can shift for a few weeks around the spring and autumn transitions.
For example, 4:00 PM in Boston is 1:00 PM in Los Angeles, while 4:00 PM in Los Angeles is 7:00 PM in Boston.