What is AKST in UTC?
Coordinated Universal Time is 9 hours ahead
Convert a time
UTC — Coordinated Universal Time
8:00 am
UTC, Sat, the next day
- Time in Anchorage
- 11:29:53 PM
- Time in the prime meridian
- 8:29:53 AM
- Difference
- +9 h
- Next clock change
- March 14, 2027
When the difference changes
Alaska Time and Coordinated Universal 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 – March 14, 2027Coordinated Universal Time is 9 hours ahead
- March 14, 2027 – November 7, 2027Coordinated Universal Time is 8 hours ahead
- November 7, 2027 – onwardsCoordinated Universal Time is 9 hours ahead
Periods shorter than a day are not listed. Each zone changes at its own local time, so on a date when both move there are a few hours when the gap is briefly something else.
Daylight saving
Alaska Time
Clocks go forward one hour — 2:00 am becomes 3:00 am local time, and the zone is on AKDT after that.
Coordinated Universal Time
Coordinated Universal Time stays on UTC all year, so its offset from UTC never moves.
AKST to UTC conversion table
Every hour of Friday, November 6, 2026, converted from Alaska Time to Coordinated Universal Time. 9 of the 24 hours fall on a different calendar day in the prime meridian, which is marked.
- 12:00 am AKST
- 9:00 am UTC
- 1:00 am AKST
- 10:00 am UTC
- 2:00 am AKST
- 11:00 am UTC
- 3:00 am AKST
- 12:00 pm UTC
- 4:00 am AKST
- 1:00 pm UTC
- 5:00 am AKST
- 2:00 pm UTC
- 6:00 am AKST
- 3:00 pm UTC
- 7:00 am AKST
- 4:00 pm UTC
- 8:00 am AKST
- 5:00 pm UTC
- 9:00 am AKST
- 6:00 pm UTC
- 10:00 am AKST
- 7:00 pm UTC
- 11:00 am AKST
- 8:00 pm UTC
- 12:00 pm AKST
- 9:00 pm UTC
- 1:00 pm AKST
- 10:00 pm UTC
- 2:00 pm AKST
- 11:00 pm UTC
- 3:00 pm AKST
- 12:00 am UTC+1 day
- 4:00 pm AKST
- 1:00 am UTC+1 day
- 5:00 pm AKST
- 2:00 am UTC+1 day
- 6:00 pm AKST
- 3:00 am UTC+1 day
- 7:00 pm AKST
- 4:00 am UTC+1 day
- 8:00 pm AKST
- 5:00 am UTC+1 day
- 9:00 pm AKST
- 6:00 am UTC+1 day
- 10:00 pm AKST
- 7:00 am UTC+1 day
- 11:00 pm AKST
- 8:00 am UTC+1 day
Scheduling between the two
There is no overlap between a nine-to-six working day in Anchorage and one in the prime meridian — the gap is too wide. A call has to sit early or late for one side. Early morning in Anchorage is the usual compromise, since that is late afternoon or evening in the prime meridian.
Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) is used in aviation, computing, and science worldwide. UTC never changes for daylight saving.
Other conversions
- UTC to AKST
- AKST to GMT
- AKST to EST
- AKST to CST
- AKST to MST
- AKST to PST
- AKST to HST
- AKST to BST
- AKST to CET
- AKST to IST
- AKST to CST (China)
- AKST to JST
- AKST to AEST
- AKST to AST
- AKST to Mexico City
- AKST to BRT
- AKST to ART
- AKST to EET
- AKST to WET
- AKST to MSK
- AKST to TRT
- AKST to SAST
- AKST to WAT
- AKST to EAT
- AKST to GST
- AKST to PKT
- AKST to ICT
- AKST to WIB
- AKST to SGT
- AKST to HKT
- AKST to KST
- AKST to PHT
- AKST to AWST
- AKST to ACST
- AKST to NZST
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