What is EST in TRT?
Turkey Time is 7 hours ahead
Eastern Time is on UTC−4:00 and Turkey Time is on UTC+3:00 right now. Eastern Time is on daylight saving, so its clocks read EDT. The gap changes during the year — see below.
- Time in New York
- 10:13 pm
- Time in Istanbul
- 5:13 am
- Difference
- +7 h
- Next clock change
- November 1, 2026
Convert a time
TRT — Turkey Time
5:00 am
Wed, the next day
When the difference changes
Eastern Time and Turkey 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 – November 1, 2026Turkey Time is 7 hours ahead
- November 1, 2026 – March 14, 2027Turkey Time is 8 hours ahead
- March 14, 2027 – onwardsTurkey Time is 7 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
Eastern Time
Clocks go back one hour at 2am local time, becoming EST.
Turkey Time
Turkey Time stays on TRT all year, so its offset from UTC never moves.
EST to TRT conversion table
Every hour of Tuesday, September 22, 2026, converted from Eastern Time to Turkey Time. 7 of the 24 hours fall on a different calendar day in Istanbul, which is marked.
- 12:00 am EDT
- 7:00 am TRT
- 1:00 am EDT
- 8:00 am TRT
- 2:00 am EDT
- 9:00 am TRT
- 3:00 am EDT
- 10:00 am TRT
- 4:00 am EDT
- 11:00 am TRT
- 5:00 am EDT
- 12:00 pm TRT
- 6:00 am EDT
- 1:00 pm TRT
- 7:00 am EDT
- 2:00 pm TRT
- 8:00 am EDT
- 3:00 pm TRT
- 9:00 am EDT
- 4:00 pm TRT
- 10:00 am EDT
- 5:00 pm TRT
- 11:00 am EDT
- 6:00 pm TRT
- 12:00 pm EDT
- 7:00 pm TRT
- 1:00 pm EDT
- 8:00 pm TRT
- 2:00 pm EDT
- 9:00 pm TRT
- 3:00 pm EDT
- 10:00 pm TRT
- 4:00 pm EDT
- 11:00 pm TRT
- 5:00 pm EDT
- 12:00 am TRT+1 day
- 6:00 pm EDT
- 1:00 am TRT+1 day
- 7:00 pm EDT
- 2:00 am TRT+1 day
- 8:00 pm EDT
- 3:00 am TRT+1 day
- 9:00 pm EDT
- 4:00 am TRT+1 day
- 10:00 pm EDT
- 5:00 am TRT+1 day
- 11:00 pm EDT
- 6:00 am TRT+1 day
Scheduling between the two
Working hours overlap from 9:00 am to 11:00 am EDT, which is 4:00 pm to 6:00 pm TRT. 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
Turkey Time (TRT) is used in all of Türkiye, on a permanent UTC+3 since 2016