Time difference between Los Angeles and Chicago

Updated live in your browser · IANA time zone database (America/Los_Angeles, America/Chicago)

Los Angeles PDT · UTC-7

Chicago CDT · UTC-5

Difference 2 hours — Chicago is ahead of Los Angeles

Best time to call

Hours shown in Los Angeles time. The working-day overlap runs 9:00 AM – 3:00 PM in Los Angeles, which is 11:00 AM – 5:00 PM in Chicago — schedule calls in that window.

Hour-by-hour conversion

Daylight saving time note

Los Angeles and Chicago do not change their clocks on the same date. Between November 1, 2026 and November 1, 2026 the difference is 1 hour behind Chicago — because Los Angeles and Chicago switch daylight saving time on different dates.

For the rest of the year the difference holds steady at 2 hours. Every time on this page is computed from the IANA database at the moment you load it, so the tables above already account for whichever side has switched.

Why the time difference exists

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