What is AKST in AEST?
Australian Eastern Time is 18 hours ahead
Alaska Time is on UTC−8:00 and Australian Eastern Time is on UTC+10:00 right now. Alaska Time is on daylight saving, so its clocks read AKDT. The gap changes during the year — see below.
- Time in Anchorage
- 6:14 pm
- Time in Sydney
- 12:14 pm
- Difference
- +18 h
- Next clock change
- October 3, 2026
Convert a time
AEST — Australian Eastern Time
12:00 pm
Wed, the next day
When the difference changes
Alaska Time and Australian 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, 2026Australian Eastern Time is 18 hours ahead
- October 3, 2026 – November 1, 2026Australian Eastern Time is 19 hours ahead
- November 1, 2026 – March 14, 2027Australian Eastern Time is 20 hours ahead
- March 14, 2027 – April 3, 2027Australian Eastern Time is 19 hours ahead
- April 3, 2027 – October 2, 2027Australian Eastern Time is 18 hours ahead
- October 2, 2027 – onwardsAustralian Eastern Time is 19 hours ahead
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
Alaska Time
Clocks go back one hour at 2am local time, becoming AKST.
Australian Eastern Time
Clocks go forward one hour at 2am local time, becoming AEDT.
AKST to AEST conversion table
Every hour of Tuesday, September 22, 2026, converted from Alaska Time to Australian Eastern Time. 18 of the 24 hours fall on a different calendar day in Sydney, which is marked.
- 12:00 am AKDT
- 6:00 pm AEST
- 1:00 am AKDT
- 7:00 pm AEST
- 2:00 am AKDT
- 8:00 pm AEST
- 3:00 am AKDT
- 9:00 pm AEST
- 4:00 am AKDT
- 10:00 pm AEST
- 5:00 am AKDT
- 11:00 pm AEST
- 6:00 am AKDT
- 12:00 am AEST+1 day
- 7:00 am AKDT
- 1:00 am AEST+1 day
- 8:00 am AKDT
- 2:00 am AEST+1 day
- 9:00 am AKDT
- 3:00 am AEST+1 day
- 10:00 am AKDT
- 4:00 am AEST+1 day
- 11:00 am AKDT
- 5:00 am AEST+1 day
- 12:00 pm AKDT
- 6:00 am AEST+1 day
- 1:00 pm AKDT
- 7:00 am AEST+1 day
- 2:00 pm AKDT
- 8:00 am AEST+1 day
- 3:00 pm AKDT
- 9:00 am AEST+1 day
- 4:00 pm AKDT
- 10:00 am AEST+1 day
- 5:00 pm AKDT
- 11:00 am AEST+1 day
- 6:00 pm AKDT
- 12:00 pm AEST+1 day
- 7:00 pm AKDT
- 1:00 pm AEST+1 day
- 8:00 pm AKDT
- 2:00 pm AEST+1 day
- 9:00 pm AKDT
- 3:00 pm AEST+1 day
- 10:00 pm AKDT
- 4:00 pm AEST+1 day
- 11:00 pm AKDT
- 5:00 pm AEST+1 day
Scheduling between the two
Working hours overlap from 3:00 pm to 6:00 pm AKDT, which is 9:00 am to 12:00 pm AEST. 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.