PST to IST
New Delhi is 12½ hours ahead of Los Angeles at the moment — this pair shifts across the year.
PST and IST across the year
The difference is not a single number. In July, New Delhi is 12½ hours ahead of Los Angeles; in January it is 13½ hours ahead. That 1 hour swing happens because the two zones do not change their clocks together — and it is why a recurring meeting set once will quietly move for one side after a changeover.
PST: Pacific Time shifts to PDT (UTC−7) during daylight saving and back to PST (UTC−8) in winter. Most people who search for PST mean whatever Pacific Time is right now, which is what this shows.
IST: IST means India Standard Time (UTC+5:30), Irish Standard Time (UTC+1) and Israel Standard Time (UTC+2). This page uses India, which is what the overwhelming majority of searches intend. India does not observe daylight saving, so the offset never changes.
PST to IST at a glance
Working-hours conversions, using the July relationship. The live converter above always reflects today.
| PST — Los Angeles | IST — New Delhi |
|---|---|
| 8:00 am | 8:30 pm |
| 9:00 am | 9:30 pm |
| 10:00 am | 10:30 pm |
| 11:00 am | 11:30 pm |
| 12:00 pm | 12:30 am (next day) |
| 1:00 pm | 1:30 am (next day) |
| 2:00 pm | 2:30 am (next day) |
| 3:00 pm | 3:30 am (next day) |
| 4:00 pm | 4:30 am (next day) |
| 5:00 pm | 5:30 am (next day) |
Scheduling between Los Angeles and New Delhi
There is no overlap at all — no hour exists in which both Los Angeles and New Delhi are inside a 9am–6pm day. With 12½ hours between them, that is arithmetic rather than bad luck, and no amount of careful scheduling produces a slot that suits both.
The least-bad compromise is 6:00 pm in Los Angeles, which is 6:30 am in New Delhi. That asks less of Los Angeles than of New Delhi, who would be up before their working day starts. Every alternative is worse for one side than this one is for either.
The better answer, where the work allows it, is to stop meeting synchronously and use the gap deliberately. When Los Angeles finishes at 5:00 pm, it is 5:30 am in New Delhi — the middle of their night, so a handover written at your close waits until their morning — still a full working day of progress, just not an instant one. Going the other way, New Delhi's 5:00 pm is 4:30 am for you.
Used properly that is close to twenty-four hour coverage rather than an obstacle: two working days per calendar day, provided each side ends by writing down where things stand. Reserve live calls for what genuinely needs a conversation, and alternate who takes the 6:00 pm slot when they do.
If you are the one in Los Angeles
New Delhi is ahead of you, which means their day is already ending as yours gets going. By the time you are at your desk at 9:00 am, it is 9:30 pm there — so anything you send in your morning arrives in their evening, after they have stopped. The practical consequence is that your late afternoon is dead time for anything needing a reply from New Delhi: they are asleep, and you will not hear back until your next morning.
So the discipline that pays off is front-loading. Anything New Delhi needs from you should go out early in your day while they are still working; anything you need from them should be asked for before you leave, so it is waiting when you return. Treat their evening as the deadline, not yours.