What is AEST in EST?
Eastern Time is 14 hours behind
Australian Eastern Time is on UTC+10:00 and Eastern Time is on UTC−4:00 right now. Eastern Time is on daylight saving, so its clocks read EDT. The gap changes during the year — see below.
- Time in Sydney
- 11:34 am
- Time in New York
- 9:34 pm
- Difference
- −14 h
- Next clock change
- October 3, 2026
Convert a time
EDT — Eastern Time
9:00 pm
Tue, the previous day
When the difference changes
Australian Eastern Time and Eastern 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, 2026Eastern Time is 14 hours behind
- October 3, 2026 – November 1, 2026Eastern Time is 15 hours behind
- November 1, 2026 – March 14, 2027Eastern Time is 16 hours behind
- March 14, 2027 – April 3, 2027Eastern Time is 15 hours behind
- April 3, 2027 – October 2, 2027Eastern Time is 14 hours behind
- October 2, 2027 – onwardsEastern Time is 15 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.
Eastern Time
Clocks go back one hour at 2am local time, becoming EST.
AEST to EST conversion table
Every hour of Wednesday, September 23, 2026, converted from Australian Eastern Time to Eastern Time. 14 of the 24 hours fall on a different calendar day in New York, which is marked.
- 12:00 am AEST
- 10:00 am EDT−1 day
- 1:00 am AEST
- 11:00 am EDT−1 day
- 2:00 am AEST
- 12:00 pm EDT−1 day
- 3:00 am AEST
- 1:00 pm EDT−1 day
- 4:00 am AEST
- 2:00 pm EDT−1 day
- 5:00 am AEST
- 3:00 pm EDT−1 day
- 6:00 am AEST
- 4:00 pm EDT−1 day
- 7:00 am AEST
- 5:00 pm EDT−1 day
- 8:00 am AEST
- 6:00 pm EDT−1 day
- 9:00 am AEST
- 7:00 pm EDT−1 day
- 10:00 am AEST
- 8:00 pm EDT−1 day
- 11:00 am AEST
- 9:00 pm EDT−1 day
- 12:00 pm AEST
- 10:00 pm EDT−1 day
- 1:00 pm AEST
- 11:00 pm EDT−1 day
- 2:00 pm AEST
- 12:00 am EDT
- 3:00 pm AEST
- 1:00 am EDT
- 4:00 pm AEST
- 2:00 am EDT
- 5:00 pm AEST
- 3:00 am EDT
- 6:00 pm AEST
- 4:00 am EDT
- 7:00 pm AEST
- 5:00 am EDT
- 8:00 pm AEST
- 6:00 am EDT
- 9:00 pm AEST
- 7:00 am EDT
- 10:00 pm AEST
- 8:00 am EDT
- 11:00 pm AEST
- 9:00 am EDT
Scheduling between the two
There is no overlap between a nine-to-six working day in Sydney and one in New York — the gap is too wide. A call has to sit early or late for one side. Early morning in Sydney is the usual compromise, since that is late afternoon or evening in New York.
Australian Eastern Time (AEST) is used in Melbourne, Canberra and Brisbane. Queensland stays on AEST all year while the southern states move to AEDT.
Eastern Time (EDT) is used in Toronto, Atlanta, Miami, Detroit and most of the US east coast