What is HST in AKST?
Alaska Time is 2 hours ahead
Hawaii Standard Time is on UTC−10:00 and Alaska Time is on UTC−8:00 right now. Alaska Time is on daylight saving, so its clocks read AKDT. The gap changes during the year — see below.
- Time in Honolulu
- 4:15 pm
- Time in Anchorage
- 6:15 pm
- Difference
- +2 h
- Next clock change
- November 1, 2026
Convert a time
AKDT — Alaska Time
6:00 pm
Tue
When the difference changes
Hawaii Standard Time and Alaska 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, 2026Alaska Time is 2 hours ahead
- November 1, 2026 – March 14, 2027Alaska Time is 1 hour ahead
- March 14, 2027 – onwardsAlaska Time is 2 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
Hawaii Standard Time
Hawaii Standard Time stays on HST all year, so its offset from UTC never moves.
Alaska Time
Clocks go back one hour at 2am local time, becoming AKST.
HST to AKST conversion table
Every hour of Tuesday, September 22, 2026, converted from Hawaii Standard Time to Alaska Time. 2 of the 24 hours fall on a different calendar day in Anchorage, which is marked.
- 12:00 am HST
- 2:00 am AKDT
- 1:00 am HST
- 3:00 am AKDT
- 2:00 am HST
- 4:00 am AKDT
- 3:00 am HST
- 5:00 am AKDT
- 4:00 am HST
- 6:00 am AKDT
- 5:00 am HST
- 7:00 am AKDT
- 6:00 am HST
- 8:00 am AKDT
- 7:00 am HST
- 9:00 am AKDT
- 8:00 am HST
- 10:00 am AKDT
- 9:00 am HST
- 11:00 am AKDT
- 10:00 am HST
- 12:00 pm AKDT
- 11:00 am HST
- 1:00 pm AKDT
- 12:00 pm HST
- 2:00 pm AKDT
- 1:00 pm HST
- 3:00 pm AKDT
- 2:00 pm HST
- 4:00 pm AKDT
- 3:00 pm HST
- 5:00 pm AKDT
- 4:00 pm HST
- 6:00 pm AKDT
- 5:00 pm HST
- 7:00 pm AKDT
- 6:00 pm HST
- 8:00 pm AKDT
- 7:00 pm HST
- 9:00 pm AKDT
- 8:00 pm HST
- 10:00 pm AKDT
- 9:00 pm HST
- 11:00 pm AKDT
- 10:00 pm HST
- 12:00 am AKDT+1 day
- 11:00 pm HST
- 1:00 am AKDT+1 day
Scheduling between the two
Working hours overlap from 9:00 am to 4:00 pm HST, which is 11:00 am to 6:00 pm AKDT. Anything inside that window falls in the normal working day at both ends.
Hawaii Standard Time (HST) is used in all of Hawaii, which does not observe daylight saving