What is NZST in EST?
Eastern Time is 16 hours behind
New Zealand Time is on UTC+12:00 and Eastern Time is on UTC−4:00 right now. Eastern Time is on daylight saving, so its clocks read EDT. The gap changes during the year — see below.
- Time in Auckland
- 1:35 pm
- Time in New York
- 9:35 pm
- Difference
- −16 h
- Next clock change
- September 26, 2026
Convert a time
EDT — Eastern Time
9:00 pm
Tue, the previous day
When the difference changes
New Zealand Time and Eastern 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 – September 26, 2026Eastern Time is 16 hours behind
- September 26, 2026 – November 1, 2026Eastern Time is 17 hours behind
- November 1, 2026 – March 14, 2027Eastern Time is 18 hours behind
- March 14, 2027 – April 3, 2027Eastern Time is 17 hours behind
- April 3, 2027 – September 25, 2027Eastern Time is 16 hours behind
- September 25, 2027 – onwardsEastern Time is 17 hours behind
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
New Zealand Time
Clocks go forward one hour at 2am local time, becoming NZDT.
Eastern Time
Clocks go back one hour at 2am local time, becoming EST.
NZST to EST conversion table
Every hour of Wednesday, September 23, 2026, converted from New Zealand Time to Eastern Time. 16 of the 24 hours fall on a different calendar day in New York, which is marked.
- 12:00 am NZST
- 8:00 am EDT−1 day
- 1:00 am NZST
- 9:00 am EDT−1 day
- 2:00 am NZST
- 10:00 am EDT−1 day
- 3:00 am NZST
- 11:00 am EDT−1 day
- 4:00 am NZST
- 12:00 pm EDT−1 day
- 5:00 am NZST
- 1:00 pm EDT−1 day
- 6:00 am NZST
- 2:00 pm EDT−1 day
- 7:00 am NZST
- 3:00 pm EDT−1 day
- 8:00 am NZST
- 4:00 pm EDT−1 day
- 9:00 am NZST
- 5:00 pm EDT−1 day
- 10:00 am NZST
- 6:00 pm EDT−1 day
- 11:00 am NZST
- 7:00 pm EDT−1 day
- 12:00 pm NZST
- 8:00 pm EDT−1 day
- 1:00 pm NZST
- 9:00 pm EDT−1 day
- 2:00 pm NZST
- 10:00 pm EDT−1 day
- 3:00 pm NZST
- 11:00 pm EDT−1 day
- 4:00 pm NZST
- 12:00 am EDT
- 5:00 pm NZST
- 1:00 am EDT
- 6:00 pm NZST
- 2:00 am EDT
- 7:00 pm NZST
- 3:00 am EDT
- 8:00 pm NZST
- 4:00 am EDT
- 9:00 pm NZST
- 5:00 am EDT
- 10:00 pm NZST
- 6:00 am EDT
- 11:00 pm NZST
- 7:00 am EDT
Scheduling between the two
Working hours overlap from 9:00 am to 10:00 am NZST, which is 5:00 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