The best time to meet between Los Angeles and Seattle is 9:00 AM–5:00 PM PDT (9:00 AM–5:00 PM PDT), when both cities are within standard working hours.
Plan a meeting →| Detail | Value |
|---|---|
| Time difference | 0h (same UTC offset) |
| Los Angeles 9–5 in Seattle time | 9:00 AM–5:00 PM PDT |
| Seattle 9–5 in Los Angeles time | 9:00 AM–5:00 PM PDT |
| Overlap window | 9:00 AM–5:00 PM PDT / 9:00 AM–5:00 PM PDT |
| Recommended slots | 9:00 AM PDT = 9:00 AM PDT, 1:00 PM PDT = 1:00 PM PDT |
| DST transitions (this year) | Los Angeles: March 8 / November 1; Seattle: March 8 / November 1 |
The 0h offset between Los Angeles and Seattle is not just a number — it reshapes the entire rhythm of collaboration. Los Angeles clocks out while Seattle is still at lunch. Teams that don't plan this deliberately spend their overlap on firefighting instead of actual work.
The 8h overlap window runs at the edge of both teams' days. For Seattle's side it's a late-morning meeting; for Los Angeles 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 Seattle 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, Seattle, 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 Seattle is UTC-7, a difference of 0h. This gap may shift by 1 hour during DST transitions.
The best meeting time is during the 8h of shared business hours — typically 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM PDT.
Yes. Both Los Angeles and Seattle 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 Seattle share 8h of business-hours overlap (assuming 9 AM–5 PM local time for both).