AKST to AEST: AKST is 18 hours behind AEST
Alaska Time is 18 hours behind Australian Eastern Time right now. It is 12:19 am AKDT in Alaska and 6:19 pm AEST in Australian Eastern.
Convert a specific time from AKST to AEST
Pick any time and date to convert it both ways. The conversion runs in your browser against the real zone rules, so a date inside a daylight saving period gets that period's offset rather than today's.
What is the time difference between AKST and AEST?
Australian Eastern Time is 18 hours ahead of Alaska Time. To go from AKST to AEST you add 18 hours. That gap is not fixed. Across 2026 the distance between these two zones takes 3 different values, from 18 hours to 20 hours, because the two sides change their clocks on different dates. This page recomputes it rather than assuming.
AKST to AEST conversion table
Every hour of Friday, September 25, 2026 in Alaska, with the matching reading in Australian Eastern. 18 of the 24 hours land on a different calendar date in Australian Eastern, which is the part people get wrong when they schedule across this pair.
| AKST | AKST 24h | AEST | AEST 24h | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12:00 am | 00:00 | 6:00 pm | 18:00 | same day |
| 1:00 am | 01:00 | 7:00 pm | 19:00 | same day |
| 2:00 am | 02:00 | 8:00 pm | 20:00 | same day |
| 3:00 am | 03:00 | 9:00 pm | 21:00 | same day |
| 4:00 am | 04:00 | 10:00 pm | 22:00 | same day |
| 5:00 am | 05:00 | 11:00 pm | 23:00 | same day |
| 6:00 am | 06:00 | 12:00 am | 00:00 | the next day |
| 7:00 am | 07:00 | 1:00 am | 01:00 | the next day |
| 8:00 am | 08:00 | 2:00 am | 02:00 | the next day |
| 9:00 am | 09:00 | 3:00 am | 03:00 | the next day |
| 10:00 am | 10:00 | 4:00 am | 04:00 | the next day |
| 11:00 am | 11:00 | 5:00 am | 05:00 | the next day |
| 12:00 pm | 12:00 | 6:00 am | 06:00 | the next day |
| 1:00 pm | 13:00 | 7:00 am | 07:00 | the next day |
| 2:00 pm | 14:00 | 8:00 am | 08:00 | the next day |
| 3:00 pm | 15:00 | 9:00 am | 09:00 | the next day |
| 4:00 pm | 16:00 | 10:00 am | 10:00 | the next day |
| 5:00 pm | 17:00 | 11:00 am | 11:00 | the next day |
| 6:00 pm | 18:00 | 12:00 pm | 12:00 | the next day |
| 7:00 pm | 19:00 | 1:00 pm | 13:00 | the next day |
| 8:00 pm | 20:00 | 2:00 pm | 14:00 | the next day |
| 9:00 pm | 21:00 | 3:00 pm | 15:00 | the next day |
| 10:00 pm | 22:00 | 4:00 pm | 16:00 | the next day |
| 11:00 pm | 23:00 | 5:00 pm | 17:00 | the next day |
What are the best hours to schedule a call between AKST and AEST?
No hour of the standard 9:00 am to 5:00 pm working day falls inside working hours on both sides. Alaska and Australian Eastern are 18 hours apart, which is too far for an overlap, so somebody has to take a call outside their own working day. The least painful options are below, ranked by how close both sides sit to the middle of the afternoon.
| AKST | AEST | Working hours | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1:00 pm | 7:00 am the next day | AKST only | afternoon in Alaska, early morning in Australian Eastern |
| 2:00 pm | 8:00 am the next day | AKST only | afternoon in Alaska, mid morning in Australian Eastern |
| 3:00 pm | 9:00 am the next day | both sides | afternoon in Alaska, mid morning in Australian Eastern |
Does daylight saving change AKST to AEST?
Alaska Time is currently on AKDT and changes next on Sunday, November 1, 2026, when the clock falls back from 1:59 am to 1:00 am and the offset moves from UTC-8 to UTC-9.
Australian Eastern Time is currently on AEST and changes next on Sunday, October 4, 2026, when the clock jumps forward from 1:59 am to 3:00 am and the offset moves from UTC+10 to UTC+11.
Because the two sides do not move together, the answer to this conversion changes during the year. The United States changes on the second Sunday in March and the first Sunday in November, while the United Kingdom and European Union change on the last Sunday in March and the last Sunday in October. Those dates are weeks apart, which opens a window each spring and autumn where the usual gap is an hour out. The table above is built for today, not for an average day.
Is AKST ahead of or behind AEST?
AKST is behind AEST by 18 hours: when it is 12:00 pm in Alaska, it is 6:00 am the next day in Australian Eastern. One wrinkle worth knowing: AKST and AKDT are two names for the same zone, not two zones. Alaska Time reads AKST in winter and AKDT in summer. When somebody types "akst to aest" they nearly always mean the zone rather than the literal winter offset, so this page resolves AKST to America/Anchorage and AEST to Australia/Sydney and applies whichever offset is genuinely in force on the day.
Alaska Time covers Anchorage, Juneau and Fairbanks. Australian Eastern Time covers Sydney, Melbourne and Canberra, where summer falls in December. The identifiers behind them are America/Anchorage and Australia/Sydney, which is what any calendar or scheduling system should be storing rather than a fixed number of hours.
Questions
- What is AKST in AEST?
- AKST is 18 hours behind AEST. 9:00 am AKST is 3:00 am the next day AEST.
- How many hours ahead is AEST of AKST?
- AEST is 18 hours ahead of AKST. That varies across the year, between 18 hours and 20 hours.
- What time is it in Australian Eastern right now?
- 6:19 pm AEST on Friday, September 25, 2026.
- When can Alaska and Australian Eastern meet during working hours?
- There is no shared working hour. The closest fit is 1:00 pm AKST, which is 7:00 am AEST.
- Does this account for daylight saving?
- Yes. Every reading is computed from the IANA database for the actual date, so AKDT and AEST are the abbreviations genuinely in force today rather than a fixed assumption.
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