What is AKST in CST?
Central Time is 3 hours ahead
Alaska Time is on UTC−8:00 and Central Time is on UTC−5:00 right now. Both are on daylight saving, so their clocks read AKDT and CDT. That gap holds all year, because both zones change their clocks together.
- Time in Anchorage
- 6:14 pm
- Time in Chicago
- 9:14 pm
- Difference
- +3 h
- Next clock change
- November 1, 2026
Convert a time
CDT — Central Time
9:00 pm
Tue
Daylight saving
Alaska Time
Clocks go back one hour at 2am local time, becoming AKST.
Central Time
Clocks go back one hour at 2am local time, becoming CST.
AKST to CST conversion table
Every hour of Tuesday, September 22, 2026, converted from Alaska Time to Central Time. 3 of the 24 hours fall on a different calendar day in Chicago, which is marked.
- 12:00 am AKDT
- 3:00 am CDT
- 1:00 am AKDT
- 4:00 am CDT
- 2:00 am AKDT
- 5:00 am CDT
- 3:00 am AKDT
- 6:00 am CDT
- 4:00 am AKDT
- 7:00 am CDT
- 5:00 am AKDT
- 8:00 am CDT
- 6:00 am AKDT
- 9:00 am CDT
- 7:00 am AKDT
- 10:00 am CDT
- 8:00 am AKDT
- 11:00 am CDT
- 9:00 am AKDT
- 12:00 pm CDT
- 10:00 am AKDT
- 1:00 pm CDT
- 11:00 am AKDT
- 2:00 pm CDT
- 12:00 pm AKDT
- 3:00 pm CDT
- 1:00 pm AKDT
- 4:00 pm CDT
- 2:00 pm AKDT
- 5:00 pm CDT
- 3:00 pm AKDT
- 6:00 pm CDT
- 4:00 pm AKDT
- 7:00 pm CDT
- 5:00 pm AKDT
- 8:00 pm CDT
- 6:00 pm AKDT
- 9:00 pm CDT
- 7:00 pm AKDT
- 10:00 pm CDT
- 8:00 pm AKDT
- 11:00 pm CDT
- 9:00 pm AKDT
- 12:00 am CDT+1 day
- 10:00 pm AKDT
- 1:00 am CDT+1 day
- 11:00 pm AKDT
- 2:00 am CDT+1 day
Scheduling between the two
Working hours overlap from 9:00 am to 3:00 pm AKDT, which is 12:00 pm to 6:00 pm CDT. Anything inside that window falls in the normal working day at both ends.
A note on CST: it can also mean China Standard Time (UTC+8) and Cuba Standard Time (UTC−5). This page means US Central Time.
Central Time (CDT) is used in Dallas, Houston, Mexico City and Winnipeg