Time Zone Map Pennsylvania (2024)

FAQs

What time zone does Pennsylvania use? ›

A time zone is an area on Earth that has a specific time that all citizens can set their clocks to. Different time zones exist as you move from east to west (or west to east) on the surface of the earth. The farther you travel, the more time zones you'll pass through. Time zones are not something that naturally occurs.

The Eastern Time Zone includes the state of Connecticut, Delaware, part of Florida, Georgia, part of Indiana, part of Kentucky, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, part of Michigan, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, part of Tennessee, Vermont, Virginia ...

Pennsylvania , officially the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, is a U.S. state that is located in the Northeastern and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States, and the Great Lakes region.

If you live in Michigan and you want to call a friend in Pennsylvania, you can try calling them between 7:00 AM and 11:00 PM your time. This will be between 7AM - 11PM their time, since Pennsylvania (PA) is in the same time zone as Michigan (MI).

Pennsylvania has the same time as New York.

Time zone info for Philadelphia

Switching to UTC -5 / Eastern Standard Time (EST).

The offset of each time zone is shown in whole hours at the bottom of the map. Example: +3 means that the time zone is 3 hours ahead of UTC. On land, time zones are represented by areas of different colors, in international waters by gray lines.

How to determine time zone? ›

They are based on longitude and defined by Earth's rotation, which completes a full circle (360 degrees) each day (24 hours). Each hour then, Earth rotates through 360/24 = 15° of longitude: the width of one time zone.

Open your phone's Clock app . Settings. To pick your home time zone: Tap Home time zone. Set time zone automatically.

Just use a nearby city in the state of Pennsylvania, for example, Philadelphia. The whole state is in the Eastern US time zone, so it doesn't matter what city that you use.

Schedule a phone call from Pennsylvania to California

If you live in Pennsylvania and you want to call a friend in California, you can try calling them between 10:00 AM and 2:00 AM your time. This will be between 7AM - 11PM their time, since California (CA) is 3 hours behind Pennsylvania (PA).

Illinois (IL) is 1 hour behind the center of the Pennsylvania (PA).

Therefore, EDT is the time zone used in summer and spring, while EST is the time zone used in winter and autumn. If you're not sure whether to use EDT or EST, it's always safe to stick with ET.

EST stands for Eastern Standard Time. It is five hours behind Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) and Greenwich Mean Time (GMT). The EST time zone gets used during standard time in North America, Central America, and the Caribbean. EST is often called Eastern Time Zone.

Pennsylvania has the same time as New York.