The best time to meet between Los Angeles and Sydney is 9:00 AM–12:00 AM PDT (2:00 AM–5:00 PM GMT+10), when both cities are within standard working hours.
Plan a meeting →| Detail | Value |
|---|---|
| Time difference | 17h (Sydney is ahead) |
| Los Angeles 9–5 in Sydney time | 2:00 AM–10:00 AM GMT+10 |
| Sydney 9–5 in Los Angeles time | 4:00 PM–12:00 AM PDT |
| Overlap window | 9:00 AM–12:00 AM PDT / 2:00 AM–5:00 PM GMT+10 |
| Recommended slots | 9:00 AM PDT = 2:00 AM GMT+10 |
| DST transitions (this year) | Los Angeles: March 8 / November 1; Sydney: October 4 / April 5 |
The 17h offset between Los Angeles and Sydney is not just a number — it reshapes the entire rhythm of collaboration. Sydney 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 1h overlap window runs at the edge of both teams' days. For Los Angeles's side it's a late-morning meeting; for Sydney 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 Sydney 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, Sydney, 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 Sydney is UTC+10, a difference of 17h. This gap may shift by 1 hour during DST transitions.
The best meeting time is during the 1h of shared business hours — typically 9:00 AM to 12:00 AM PDT.
Yes. Both cities observe daylight saving time, but on different schedules. Los Angeles springs forward on March 8 and Sydney on October 4, so the gap between them shifts by 1 hour during the spring and fall mismatch window.
Los Angeles and Sydney share 1h of business-hours overlap (assuming 9 AM–5 PM local time for both).