Convert MST to IRST
IRST is 10 hours 30 minutes ahead of MST. MST is UTC−7 and IRST is UTC+3:30.
Right now: MST · IRST
Best time to schedule a meeting
Standard 9–5 working hours do not overlap at all between MST and IRST. Someone has to take an early or late call — or use asynchronous communication instead.
| MST | IRST | Suitable? |
|---|---|---|
| 9:00 AM | 7:30 PM | outside 9–5 |
| 10:00 AM | 8:30 PM | outside 9–5 |
| 11:00 AM | 9:30 PM | outside 9–5 |
| 12:00 PM | 10:30 PM | outside 9–5 |
| 1:00 PM | 11:30 PM | outside 9–5 |
| 2:00 PM | 12:30 AM (next day) | outside 9–5 |
| 3:00 PM | 1:30 AM (next day) | outside 9–5 |
| 4:00 PM | 2:30 AM (next day) | outside 9–5 |
| 5:00 PM | 3:30 AM (next day) | outside 9–5 |
MST to IRST conversion table
| MST | IRST |
|---|---|
| 12:00 AM | 10:30 AM |
| 1:00 AM | 11:30 AM |
| 2:00 AM | 12:30 PM |
| 3:00 AM | 1:30 PM |
| 4:00 AM | 2:30 PM |
| 5:00 AM | 3:30 PM |
| 6:00 AM | 4:30 PM |
| 7:00 AM | 5:30 PM |
| 8:00 AM | 6:30 PM |
| 9:00 AM | 7:30 PM |
| 10:00 AM | 8:30 PM |
| 11:00 AM | 9:30 PM |
| 12:00 PM | 10:30 PM |
| 1:00 PM | 11:30 PM |
| 2:00 PM | 12:30 AM (next day) |
| 3:00 PM | 1:30 AM (next day) |
| 4:00 PM | 2:30 AM (next day) |
| 5:00 PM | 3:30 AM (next day) |
| 6:00 PM | 4:30 AM (next day) |
| 7:00 PM | 5:30 AM (next day) |
| 8:00 PM | 6:30 AM (next day) |
| 9:00 PM | 7:30 AM (next day) |
| 10:00 PM | 8:30 AM (next day) |
| 11:00 PM | 9:30 AM (next day) |
About MST
Mountain Standard Time (MST) is UTC−7. It is used in Denver and Salt Lake City in winter, and Phoenix all year.
Mountain Standard Time is UTC−7. Denver and Salt Lake City use it in winter and switch to MDT in summer; Arizona does not switch at all and stays on MST year-round, which means Phoenix agrees with Denver in winter and with Los Angeles in summer. The Navajo Nation, inside Arizona, does observe daylight saving, so the state contains both. Any scheduling system that maps "Arizona" to "Mountain Time" without the no-DST flag will be an hour out for eight months.
About IRST
Iran Standard Time (IRST) is UTC+3:30. It is used in Iran, all year.
Iran Standard Time is UTC+3:30. Iran ran daylight saving for decades and stopped in 2022, so material written before then puts the country half an hour further ahead in summer and is now wrong. Half-hour offsets are rare enough that scheduling tools sometimes round them, which turns a correct calculation into a thirty-minute error.
Does this gap change with the seasons?
This gap is seasonal. The abbreviations themselves are fixed offsets, but the region on MST switches to MDT (UTC−6) from March to November. So the 10.5-hour figure on this page is correct for the part of the year when both places are actually on these abbreviations, and changes by an hour outside it.
IRST does not shift, so the whole change comes from one side. A recurring meeting fixed in IRST will appear to move by an hour for everyone on the other side, twice a year, without anyone changing anything.
This is the reason scheduling systems store an IANA zone such as Region/City rather than an offset or an abbreviation: the zone knows its own rules and the offset does not.
Frequently asked questions
What time is 9:00 AM MST in IRST?
9:00 AM MST is 7:30 PM IRST.
Is IRST ahead of MST?
IRST is 10 hours 30 minutes ahead of MST.
Which time zone does this use?
MST is UTC−7 and IRST is UTC+3:30. Both abbreviations denote a single fixed offset, so this conversion never shifts with daylight saving — what changes is which abbreviation a place is using at the time.