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🇺🇸 Los Angeles (UTC−7) · 🇺🇸 Chicago (UTC−5) · 2 hours difference — Chicago is ahead
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🇺🇸 09:00–15:00 in Los Angeles = 🇺🇸 11:00–17:00 in Chicago6 hours of overlap within standard business hours (09:00–17:00)
24-Hour Schedule
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| 🇺🇸 Los Angeles | 17:00 | 18:00 | 19:00 | 20:00 | 21:00 | 22:00 | 23:00 | 00:00 | 01:00 | 02:00 | 03:00 | 04:00 | 05:00 | 06:00 | 07:00 | 08:00 | 09:00 | 10:00 | 11:00 | 12:00 | 13:00 | 14:00 | 15:00 | 16:00 |
| 🇺🇸 Chicago | 19:00 | 20:00 | 21:00 | 22:00 | 23:00 | 00:00 | 01:00 | 02:00 | 03:00 | 04:00 | 05:00 | 06:00 | 07:00 | 08:00 | 09:00 | 10:00 | 11:00 | 12:00 | 13:00 | 14:00 | 15:00 | 16:00 | 17:00 | 18:00 |
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Open Meeting Planner →Los Angeles's entertainment and aerospace and Chicago's finance and derivatives and logistics are different worlds, which is exactly why they call each other. The gap is 2 hours, with Chicago the one whose clock reads later.
The working week is Monday to Friday on both sides: roughly 09:00–18:00 in Los Angeles and 08:30–17:30 in Chicago. Watch for Thanksgiving (fourth Thursday of November, with the Friday) and Independence Day (4 July) in Los Angeles and Thanksgiving (fourth Thursday of November, with the Friday) and Independence Day (4 July) in Chicago.
The comfortable window is 09:00–15:00 Los Angeles time, which is 11:00–17:00 in Chicago — 6 shared office hours, enough that nobody has to stretch. Each side observes daylight saving on its own schedule; the gap moves twice a year and back again.
Chicago is 2 hours ahead of Los Angeles. The gap changes by an hour around the clock changes.
09:00–15:00 Los Angeles time, which is 11:00–17:00 in Chicago — the 6-hour stretch when both are inside 09:00–17:00.
Yes, but not on the same dates, so for a few weeks each spring and autumn the gap is an hour narrower or wider than usual.
The ones that most often surprise the other side are Thanksgiving (fourth Thursday of November, with the Friday) and Independence Day (4 July) in Los Angeles and Thanksgiving (fourth Thursday of November, with the Friday) and Independence Day (4 July) in Chicago.
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