9am in Lima is 7am in Los Angeles

Lima is 2 hours ahead of Los Angeles. Lima runs on America/Lima (UTC-5); Los Angeles runs on America/Los_Angeles (UTC-7). The difference is measured right now; it can shift by one hour during daylight-saving-time transitions.

Los Angeles observes daylight saving time — shifting between PST (UTC-8) and PDT (UTC-7) — while Lima stays on GMT-5 (UTC-5) year-round. The difference is 3 hours in Los Angeles’s winter and 2 hours in Los Angeles’s summer. Transitions happen in late March and late October for most Northern-Hemisphere DST zones, and late September/early April for Southern-Hemisphere ones — check the current date against the city’s DST schedule before anchoring a meeting at the edge of those windows.

Standard 9-to-5 business hours in Lima and Los Angeles overlap for roughly 6 hours a day. That window lands at 11:00–17:00 in Lima and 09:00–15:00 in Los Angeles. Teams with real-time coordination needs anchor cross-city calls inside it: long enough to cover handovers, short enough that it forces crisp agendas. Outside that window, async is the default — shared docs, recorded updates, and scheduled follow-ups rather than live meetings.

When planning recurring meetings across Lima and Los Angeles, pin them to one city’s local time rather than UTC or the other city’s clock. That way, the meeting time stays stable for the person anchoring the schedule, and the other side absorbs the one-hour drift during DST transitions. The alternative — a meeting pinned to the non-DST city — means the DST city sees the meeting time “move” twice a year, which is how recurring calendar invites end up at 7am on someone’s calendar in October.