It’s not possible to calculate the time difference between North America and Germany as a flat rate—the region, or rather the continent, is simply too large for that. North America has a total of seven different time zones. If you add the time zones of Hawaii, Greenland, and Saint Pierre and Miquelon, there are a total of 11 different time zones in North America.
To complicate matters further, the difference between the various time zones is not always exactly one hour. The Newfoundland Standard Time (NST) zone, for example, is -3 hours and 30 minutes behind Coordinated Universal Time (UTC). Furthermore, daylight saving time is not observed in all regions, so the time difference during the summer months differs from that during the winter months.
The best-known time zones in North America are Pacific Standard Time (PST) on the West Coast, Eastern Standard Time (EST) and Atlantic Standard Time (AST) on the East Coast, as well as Mountain Standard Time (MST) and Central Standard Time (CST).
All time zones in North America:
- Hawaii–Aleutian Standard Time HAST (UTC-10:00)
- Alaska Standard Time AKST (UTC-09:00)
- Pacific Standard Time PST (UTC-08:00)
- Mountain Standard Time MST (UTC-07:00)
- Central Standard Time CST (UTC-06:00)
- Eastern Standard Time EST (UTC-05:00)
- Atlantic Standard Time AST (UTC-04:00)
- Newfoundland Standard Time NST (UTC-3:30)
- West Greenland Time WGT (UTC-03:00)
- Saint Pierre and Miquelon Time (UTC-0300)
- East Greenland Time EGT (UTC-01:00)