Houston Time Converter

The model, stated exactly

Houston wall time is resolved to a single UTC instant by iterating Intl.DateTimeFormat with timeZone America/Chicago: the browser's real zone data supplies the offset for that date, so no offset is ever hardcoded and CDT versus CST is decided by the calendar, not by a lookup table in this page. Every other zone is then read from the same instant with Intl, so Eastern and Pacific abbreviations are correct for that date too. Houston time is Central Time — America/Chicago is Houston's zone, shared with Chicago, Dallas, and New Orleans — so the Central column always matches the Houston column by construction, not by coincidence.

Houston time at a glance

Daylight saving in Houston, 2026

In 2026, Houston springs forward on Sunday, March 8: at 2:00 a.m. local time the clocks jump to 3:00 a.m., so the hour from 2:00 to 2:59 a.m. does not exist that day, and the zone becomes CDT (UTC−5). Houston falls back on Sunday, November 1: at 2:00 a.m. the clocks return to 1:00 a.m., so the hour from 1:00 to 1:59 a.m. happens twice, and the zone becomes CST (UTC−6). Noon on March 8 is already CDT (17:00 UTC) and noon on November 1 is already CST (18:00 UTC), which is why both changeover days still convert cleanly at midday. If you schedule a meeting for 2:30 a.m. on March 8, pick another time — it never occurs.

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Winter noon: January 15, 2027, 12:00. Houston is on CST, so the same moment is 18:00 UTC, 13:00 EST Eastern, and 10:00 PST Pacific — the UTC gap is an hour wider than in summer, but the gaps to New York and Los Angeles never change.

Spring-forward day: March 8, 2026, 12:00. By noon the changeover is done: Houston is on CDT, 17:00 UTC, 13:00 EDT, 10:00 PDT.

Fall-back day: November 1, 2026, 12:00. By noon the clocks have fallen back: Houston is on CST, 18:00 UTC, 13:00 EST, 10:00 PST.

Evening call: Houston 18:00 on October 24, 2026. That is 23:00 UTC, 19:00 EDT in New York, and 16:00 PDT in Los Angeles — Houston is always one hour behind New York and two hours ahead of Los Angeles, summer and winter alike.

Output · formula · meaning

Who uses this

• The Houston worker joining a New York call: enters the Houston meeting time and learns it is 13:00 in New York, not 12:00 — the one-hour gap that causes most missed calls.
• The traveler landing at IAH: converts a departure time from home to Houston time before booking a connection, so a 10:00 Pacific departure is not mistaken for a 10:00 Houston arrival.
• The remote team scheduling across three zones: enters one Houston time and reads UTC, Eastern, and Pacific together, so nobody has to do the arithmetic in the chat.
• The student checking a Houston university deadline: confirms whether a midnight Central deadline is 01:00 Eastern or 22:00 Pacific the day before, before submitting late.

Accuracy & limitations

Conversions are exact for the date and time you enter, because they come from the browser's built-in time-zone database rather than any table on this page — but that also means an out-of-date browser can carry out-of-date rules, and future rule changes (if Texas ever changes its daylight-saving law) would only appear after a browser update. The two changeover edge cases are real: 02:00–02:59 on March 8, 2026 does not exist in Houston, and 01:00–01:59 on November 1, 2026 occurs twice; the converter resolves both to the nearest valid instant rather than failing, so avoid scheduling inside those hours. Error policy: a missing, malformed, or nonexistent calendar date, or a malformed or out-of-range time, is reported as an error rather than converted.