What is EST in AKST?
Alaska Time is 4 hours behind
Eastern Time is on UTC−4:00 and Alaska Time is on UTC−8:00 right now. Both are on daylight saving, so their clocks read EDT and AKDT. That gap holds all year, because both zones change their clocks together.
- Time in New York
- 9:35 pm
- Time in Anchorage
- 5:35 pm
- Difference
- −4 h
- Next clock change
- November 1, 2026
Convert a time
AKDT — Alaska Time
5:00 pm
Tue
Daylight saving
Eastern Time
Clocks go back one hour at 2am local time, becoming EST.
Alaska Time
Clocks go back one hour at 2am local time, becoming AKST.
EST to AKST conversion table
Every hour of Tuesday, September 22, 2026, converted from Eastern Time to Alaska Time. 4 of the 24 hours fall on a different calendar day in Anchorage, which is marked.
- 12:00 am EDT
- 8:00 pm AKDT−1 day
- 1:00 am EDT
- 9:00 pm AKDT−1 day
- 2:00 am EDT
- 10:00 pm AKDT−1 day
- 3:00 am EDT
- 11:00 pm AKDT−1 day
- 4:00 am EDT
- 12:00 am AKDT
- 5:00 am EDT
- 1:00 am AKDT
- 6:00 am EDT
- 2:00 am AKDT
- 7:00 am EDT
- 3:00 am AKDT
- 8:00 am EDT
- 4:00 am AKDT
- 9:00 am EDT
- 5:00 am AKDT
- 10:00 am EDT
- 6:00 am AKDT
- 11:00 am EDT
- 7:00 am AKDT
- 12:00 pm EDT
- 8:00 am AKDT
- 1:00 pm EDT
- 9:00 am AKDT
- 2:00 pm EDT
- 10:00 am AKDT
- 3:00 pm EDT
- 11:00 am AKDT
- 4:00 pm EDT
- 12:00 pm AKDT
- 5:00 pm EDT
- 1:00 pm AKDT
- 6:00 pm EDT
- 2:00 pm AKDT
- 7:00 pm EDT
- 3:00 pm AKDT
- 8:00 pm EDT
- 4:00 pm AKDT
- 9:00 pm EDT
- 5:00 pm AKDT
- 10:00 pm EDT
- 6:00 pm AKDT
- 11:00 pm EDT
- 7:00 pm AKDT
Scheduling between the two
Working hours overlap from 1:00 pm to 6:00 pm EDT, which is 9:00 am to 2:00 pm AKDT. 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