The best time to meet between Los Angeles and New York is 9:00 AM–2:00 PM PDT (12:00 PM–5:00 PM EDT), when both cities are within standard working hours.
Plan a meeting →| Detail | Value |
|---|---|
| Time difference | 3h (New York is ahead) |
| Los Angeles 9–5 in New York time | 12:00 PM–8:00 PM EDT |
| New York 9–5 in Los Angeles time | 6:00 AM–2:00 PM PDT |
| Overlap window | 9:00 AM–2:00 PM PDT / 12:00 PM–5:00 PM EDT |
| Recommended slots | 9:00 AM PDT = 12:00 PM EDT, 11:30 AM PDT = 2:30 PM EDT |
| DST transitions (this year) | Los Angeles: March 8 / November 1; New York: March 8 / November 1 |
The 3h offset between Los Angeles and New York is not just a number — it reshapes the entire rhythm of collaboration. New York clocks out while Los Angeles is still at lunch. Teams that don't plan this deliberately spend their overlap on firefighting instead of actual work.
The 5h overlap window runs at the edge of both teams' days. For Los Angeles's side it's a late-morning meeting; for New York it's early afternoon. Neither is painful, which is exactly why it works. Anchor your recurring sync here and treat the rest of the day as async territory.
The less obvious scheduling risk is daylight saving time mismatch. Los Angeles and New York may not shift their clocks on the same date. A meeting booked as "10 AM LAX" in January might show up as "11 AM LAX" in a colleague's calendar in March if your calendar app doesn't handle DST transitions correctly. Check the DST note on this page before setting up recurring meetings.
Add the rest of your team above and the planner scales to everyone at once. A three-city team spanning Los Angeles, New York, and a third timezone often has less overlap than any two-city pair in isolation — surfacing that constraint early prevents scheduling that works on paper but burns people out in practice.
Los Angeles is UTC-7 and New York is UTC-4, a difference of 3h. This gap may shift by 1 hour during DST transitions.
The best meeting time is during the 5h of shared business hours — typically 9:00 AM to 2:00 PM PDT.
Yes. Both Los Angeles and New York observe daylight saving time and change their clocks on the same dates (March 8 and November 1), so the gap between them stays constant.
Los Angeles and New York share 5h of business-hours overlap (assuming 9 AM–5 PM local time for both).