What is AEST in AKST?
Alaska Time is 18 hours behind
Australian Eastern Time is on UTC+10:00 and Alaska Time is on UTC−8:00 right now. Alaska Time is on daylight saving, so its clocks read AKDT. The gap changes during the year — see below.
- Time in Sydney
- 12:15 pm
- Time in Anchorage
- 6:15 pm
- Difference
- −18 h
- Next clock change
- October 3, 2026
Convert a time
AKDT — Alaska Time
6:00 pm
Tue, the previous day
When the difference changes
Australian Eastern Time and Alaska Time do not change their clocks on the same dates, so the gap between them is not the same all year. Most converters show only today’s figure. These are the periods ahead:
- Now – October 3, 2026Alaska Time is 18 hours behind
- October 3, 2026 – November 1, 2026Alaska Time is 19 hours behind
- November 1, 2026 – March 14, 2027Alaska Time is 20 hours behind
- March 14, 2027 – April 3, 2027Alaska Time is 19 hours behind
- April 3, 2027 – October 2, 2027Alaska Time is 18 hours behind
- October 2, 2027 – onwardsAlaska Time is 19 hours behind
Periods shorter than a day are not listed: both zones change at 2am in their own local time, so there are a few hours on each transition date when the gap is briefly something else.
Daylight saving
Australian Eastern Time
Clocks go forward one hour at 2am local time, becoming AEDT.
Alaska Time
Clocks go back one hour at 2am local time, becoming AKST.
AEST to AKST conversion table
Every hour of Wednesday, September 23, 2026, converted from Australian Eastern Time to Alaska Time. 18 of the 24 hours fall on a different calendar day in Anchorage, which is marked.
- 12:00 am AEST
- 6:00 am AKDT−1 day
- 1:00 am AEST
- 7:00 am AKDT−1 day
- 2:00 am AEST
- 8:00 am AKDT−1 day
- 3:00 am AEST
- 9:00 am AKDT−1 day
- 4:00 am AEST
- 10:00 am AKDT−1 day
- 5:00 am AEST
- 11:00 am AKDT−1 day
- 6:00 am AEST
- 12:00 pm AKDT−1 day
- 7:00 am AEST
- 1:00 pm AKDT−1 day
- 8:00 am AEST
- 2:00 pm AKDT−1 day
- 9:00 am AEST
- 3:00 pm AKDT−1 day
- 10:00 am AEST
- 4:00 pm AKDT−1 day
- 11:00 am AEST
- 5:00 pm AKDT−1 day
- 12:00 pm AEST
- 6:00 pm AKDT−1 day
- 1:00 pm AEST
- 7:00 pm AKDT−1 day
- 2:00 pm AEST
- 8:00 pm AKDT−1 day
- 3:00 pm AEST
- 9:00 pm AKDT−1 day
- 4:00 pm AEST
- 10:00 pm AKDT−1 day
- 5:00 pm AEST
- 11:00 pm AKDT−1 day
- 6:00 pm AEST
- 12:00 am AKDT
- 7:00 pm AEST
- 1:00 am AKDT
- 8:00 pm AEST
- 2:00 am AKDT
- 9:00 pm AEST
- 3:00 am AKDT
- 10:00 pm AEST
- 4:00 am AKDT
- 11:00 pm AEST
- 5:00 am AKDT
Scheduling between the two
Working hours overlap from 9:00 am to 12:00 pm AEST, which is 3:00 pm to 6:00 pm AKDT. Anything inside that window falls in the normal working day at both ends.
Australian Eastern Time (AEST) is used in Melbourne, Canberra and Brisbane. Queensland stays on AEST all year while the southern states move to AEDT.