What is AKST in EST?
Eastern Time is 4 hours ahead
Alaska Time is on UTC−8:00 and Eastern Time is on UTC−4:00 right now. Both are on daylight saving, so their clocks read AKDT and EDT. That gap holds all year, because both zones change their clocks together.
- Time in Anchorage
- 5:34 pm
- Time in New York
- 9:34 pm
- Difference
- +4 h
- Next clock change
- November 1, 2026
Convert a time
EDT — Eastern Time
9:00 pm
Tue
Daylight saving
Alaska Time
Clocks go back one hour at 2am local time, becoming AKST.
Eastern Time
Clocks go back one hour at 2am local time, becoming EST.
AKST to EST conversion table
Every hour of Tuesday, September 22, 2026, converted from Alaska Time to Eastern Time. 4 of the 24 hours fall on a different calendar day in New York, which is marked.
- 12:00 am AKDT
- 4:00 am EDT
- 1:00 am AKDT
- 5:00 am EDT
- 2:00 am AKDT
- 6:00 am EDT
- 3:00 am AKDT
- 7:00 am EDT
- 4:00 am AKDT
- 8:00 am EDT
- 5:00 am AKDT
- 9:00 am EDT
- 6:00 am AKDT
- 10:00 am EDT
- 7:00 am AKDT
- 11:00 am EDT
- 8:00 am AKDT
- 12:00 pm EDT
- 9:00 am AKDT
- 1:00 pm EDT
- 10:00 am AKDT
- 2:00 pm EDT
- 11:00 am AKDT
- 3:00 pm EDT
- 12:00 pm AKDT
- 4:00 pm EDT
- 1:00 pm AKDT
- 5:00 pm EDT
- 2:00 pm AKDT
- 6:00 pm EDT
- 3:00 pm AKDT
- 7:00 pm EDT
- 4:00 pm AKDT
- 8:00 pm EDT
- 5:00 pm AKDT
- 9:00 pm EDT
- 6:00 pm AKDT
- 10:00 pm EDT
- 7:00 pm AKDT
- 11:00 pm EDT
- 8:00 pm AKDT
- 12:00 am EDT+1 day
- 9:00 pm AKDT
- 1:00 am EDT+1 day
- 10:00 pm AKDT
- 2:00 am EDT+1 day
- 11:00 pm AKDT
- 3:00 am EDT+1 day
Scheduling between the two
Working hours overlap from 9:00 am to 2:00 pm AKDT, which is 1:00 pm to 6:00 pm EDT. Anything inside that window falls in the normal working day at both ends.
Eastern Time (EDT) is used in Toronto, Atlanta, Miami, Detroit and most of the US east coast