Eastern Standard Time to Mountain Standard Time, with the offset for today's date rather than an average.
MST time
Mountain Standard Time is behind Eastern Standard Time — noon in EST is 10:00 am in MDT
EDT todayUTC-04:00
MDT todayUTC-06:00
Working-hour overlap6 h
Common meeting hours converted from EST to MST
EST (Eastern Standard Time)
MST (Mountain Standard Time)
Working hours in both?
7:00 am
5:00 am
No
8:00 am
6:00 am
No
9:00 am
7:00 am
No
10:00 am
8:00 am
No
11:00 am
9:00 am
Yes
12:00 pm
10:00 am
Yes
1:00 pm
11:00 am
Yes
2:00 pm
12:00 pm
Yes
3:00 pm
1:00 pm
Yes
4:00 pm
2:00 pm
Yes
5:00 pm
3:00 pm
No
6:00 pm
4:00 pm
No
7:00 pm
5:00 pm
No
8:00 pm
6:00 pm
No
This calculator needs JavaScript to recalculate. The answer above was
worked out on 19 August 2026 and is correct for
that date; the site rebuilds every morning.
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Which zone this page means. EST is standard time only; EDT (UTC-4) applies from March to November. MST is standard time only; MDT (UTC-6) applies from March to November. Arizona stays on MST all year.
EST is ahead of MST by 2 hours today
On 19 August 2026, Eastern Standard Time is on EDT at
UTC-04:00 and Mountain Standard Time is on MDT at
UTC-06:00. The gap between them is
2 hours, with MST
behind. So 9:00 am in EST is
7:00 am in MST, and 5:00 pm in EST is
3:00 pm in MST. Going the other way, see MST to EST.
The gap is not constant, and that is the part that catches people out
Eastern Standard Time is currently observing daylight saving and changes next on 1 November 2026, when clocks go back an hour. Mountain Standard Time is currently observing daylight saving and changes next on 1 November 2026.
When you can actually both be at work
Taking a working day as 9:00 am to 5:00 pm local at each end, there
are 6 overlapping hours
in a normal day. In EST that window runs from 11:00 am to
5:00 pm, which is 9:00 am to
3:00 pm in MST. Anything outside it needs
one side to start early or finish late.
Zone rules are set by legislation and change, sometimes at short notice. This page is
built against tzdata 2026a, last reviewed
2026-08-18. Quarterly. Zone rules change by legislation, sometimes at short notice. Version and review date are shown on every zone page. The converter above reads
your browser's own copy of the zone database, so if a rule has changed since this page was built the
live answer follows the new rule.
Every convention used above — whether the start date counts, how month ends are
clamped, which holidays close an office — is written out on the
methodology page, including the daylight-saving rules behind the 2-hour gap above.
The current offset is shown at the top of this page. It is computed for today's date rather than quoted as an average, because the two regions change their clocks on different dates and the gap is different for a few weeks each year.
Is EST the same as Eastern Standard Time all year?
Not necessarily. Standard time and summer time are separate zones with separate abbreviations, so much of the year the technically correct abbreviation is the daylight one. The page states which is in force on today's date.
When do the clocks change in these zones?
The next change date for each zone is shown in the result panel, along with what the offset becomes afterwards.
What is a good meeting time between EST and MST?
The business-hours overlap window is shown below the converter. Where there is no overlap the page says so rather than suggesting an impossible time.