It is 4:07 am in America/Anchorage

America/Anchorage is the IANA identifier for the time zone of Anchorage in the United States. It is running at UTC-8 right now, abbreviated AKDT, and the local date is Saturday, September 26, 2026. The zone is on its summer offset at the moment.

What time is it in America/Anchorage right now

4:07 am on Saturday, September 26, 2026, as this page was served, which in 24 hour form is 04:07. The clock above ticks on from there in your own browser. The offset is a whole 8 hours behind UTC, so a UTC timestamp converts here by changing the hour and leaving the minutes exactly as they are.

6 other zones read UTC-8 at this instant. They are interchangeable as a clock reading today and not as an identifier: storing UTC-8 instead of America/Anchorage throws away the rule that decides what they all do at the next transition.

The UTC offset of America/Anchorage

An offset of UTC-8 names the meridian 120.0 degrees west. Anchorage, AK actually sits at 149.90 degrees west, which is 29.9 degrees west of it, so the sun there runs about 120 minutes behind the clock before daylight saving is even considered. Zone boundaries are drawn by borders and by convenience, not by longitude, and this is the size of the gap that produces.

Because this zone moves its clocks, UTC-8 is only today's answer. It runs at UTC-9 for the winter part of the year and UTC-8 for the summer part, a difference of 1 hour, and any gap memorised against it is wrong for part of the year.

Daylight saving in America/Anchorage

America/Anchorage does observe daylight saving. The next change is on November 1, 2026: at 1:00 am local the clocks go back, and UTC-8 becomes UTC-9. That hour is repeated, so every reading inside it happens twice, which is why a wall clock time in this zone is not always a single instant.

Every clock change the database has for this zone in 2025, 2026 and 2027, with the exact local reading either side of the jump.

How the offset of America/Anchorage has changed since 1970

Read on 1 January and 1 July of each year, which is the cheapest pair of samples that shows both the winter offset and whether the clocks moved that summer. The zone has passed through 2 distinct eras in that time and has used 3 different offsets: UTC-10, UTC-9, UTC-8. Its current behaviour has held since 1984. A rule change that began and ended between July and the following January is invisible to this sampling, so the table is a shape rather than a complete edit history.

The earliest summer shift this sampling sees here is 1970, and the zone has kept moving its clocks since. The dates the change falls on have moved several times even where the rule has not.

Countries and regions that use America/Anchorage

One country uses America/Anchorage: the United States, which keeps 29 zones in total and has a population of about 334,910,000.

Inside the United States, one state uses this identifier: Alaska.

Cities in the America/Anchorage time zone

The 3 cities this site covers inside America/Anchorage, each with a live clock and today's sunrise and sunset worked out from its own coordinate. They share an identifier, so they share a clock reading to the minute, and they do not share a sunrise: that is set by latitude and longitude.

The sun against the clock in America/Anchorage

Worked out for Anchorage, AK, the city this site covers inside the zone, at 61.22 degrees north, 149.90 degrees west. The sun rises at 7:54 am and sets at 7:46 pm, giving 11 hours 52 minutes of daylight. Solar noon, the moment the sun is highest, falls at 1:51 pm, which is 111 minutes after clock noon.

That gap is the whole argument about where zone lines belong, in one number. It is made of three things: Anchorage, AK sitting 29.9 degrees west of the UTC-8 meridian, the equation of time, which today runs 8.8 minutes ahead of mean time, and the hour of daylight saving currently in force. Full sunrise and sunset times for Anchorage.

Convert America/Anchorage to another time zone

America/Anchorage is one of the zones the converter publishes under its own name, as AKST, so these pages convert it directly rather than by matching an offset.

Questions about America/Anchorage

What time is it in America/Anchorage right now?

4:07 am on Saturday, September 26, 2026, as this page was served. The clock at the top of the page ticks on from there.

What is the UTC offset of America/Anchorage?

UTC-8 at this instant, and it alternates between UTC-9 in winter and UTC-8 in summer.

Does America/Anchorage observe daylight saving time?

Yes. The next change is November 1, 2026, when the clocks go back.

What is the abbreviation for America/Anchorage?

AKDT at this instant. The letters change with the season, because the standard and summer offsets have separate names.

Which countries use America/Anchorage?

United States.

Why store America/Anchorage instead of UTC-8?

Because the offset is an output and the identifier is the input. This zone alone has two offsets in a year, and 6 other zones share its current reading while carrying different rules. A record storing UTC-8 cannot tell them apart; a record storing America/Anchorage keeps working through every future rule change.

Other time zones in the Americas

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