AKST to AWST: AKST is 16 hours behind AWST
Alaska Time is 16 hours behind Australian Western Time right now. It is 4:06 pm AKDT in Alaska and 8:06 am AWST in Australian Western, which is already the next day there.
Convert a specific time from AKST to AWST
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 AWST?
Australian Western Time is 16 hours ahead of Alaska Time. To go from AKST to AWST you add 16 hours. That gap is not fixed. Across 2026 the distance between these two zones takes 2 different values, from 16 hours to 17 hours, because Alaska moves its clocks and Australian Western does not. This page recomputes it rather than assuming.
AKST to AWST conversion table
Every hour of Thursday, September 24, 2026 in Alaska, with the matching reading in Australian Western. 16 of the 24 hours land on a different calendar date in Australian Western, which is the part people get wrong when they schedule across this pair.
| AKST | AKST 24h | AWST | AWST 24h | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12:00 am | 00:00 | 4:00 pm | 16:00 | same day |
| 1:00 am | 01:00 | 5:00 pm | 17:00 | same day |
| 2:00 am | 02:00 | 6:00 pm | 18:00 | same day |
| 3:00 am | 03:00 | 7:00 pm | 19:00 | same day |
| 4:00 am | 04:00 | 8:00 pm | 20:00 | same day |
| 5:00 am | 05:00 | 9:00 pm | 21:00 | same day |
| 6:00 am | 06:00 | 10:00 pm | 22:00 | same day |
| 7:00 am | 07:00 | 11:00 pm | 23:00 | same day |
| 8:00 am | 08:00 | 12:00 am | 00:00 | the next day |
| 9:00 am | 09:00 | 1:00 am | 01:00 | the next day |
| 10:00 am | 10:00 | 2:00 am | 02:00 | the next day |
| 11:00 am | 11:00 | 3:00 am | 03:00 | the next day |
| 12:00 pm | 12:00 | 4:00 am | 04:00 | the next day |
| 1:00 pm | 13:00 | 5:00 am | 05:00 | the next day |
| 2:00 pm | 14:00 | 6:00 am | 06:00 | the next day |
| 3:00 pm | 15:00 | 7:00 am | 07:00 | the next day |
| 4:00 pm | 16:00 | 8:00 am | 08:00 | the next day |
| 5:00 pm | 17:00 | 9:00 am | 09:00 | the next day |
| 6:00 pm | 18:00 | 10:00 am | 10:00 | the next day |
| 7:00 pm | 19:00 | 11:00 am | 11:00 | the next day |
| 8:00 pm | 20:00 | 12:00 pm | 12:00 | the next day |
| 9:00 pm | 21:00 | 1:00 pm | 13:00 | the next day |
| 10:00 pm | 22:00 | 2:00 pm | 14:00 | the next day |
| 11:00 pm | 23:00 | 3:00 pm | 15:00 | the next day |
What are the best hours to schedule a call between AKST and AWST?
No hour of the standard 9:00 am to 5:00 pm working day falls inside working hours on both sides. Alaska and Australian Western are 16 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 | AWST | Working hours | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3:00 pm | 7:00 am the next day | AKST only | afternoon in Alaska, early morning in Australian Western |
| 4:00 pm | 8:00 am the next day | AKST only | afternoon in Alaska, mid morning in Australian Western |
| 5:00 pm | 9:00 am the next day | AWST only | evening in Alaska, mid morning in Australian Western |
Does daylight saving change AKST to AWST?
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 Western Time does not move its clocks at all, so its UTC+8 offset holds every day of the year.
Because the two sides do not move together, the answer to this conversion changes during the year. For part of the year the gap is 16 hours and for the rest it is 17 hours. The table above is built for today, not for an average day.
Is AKST ahead of or behind AWST?
AKST is behind AWST by 16 hours: when it is 12:00 pm in Alaska, it is 4:00 am the next day in Australian Western. 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 awst" they nearly always mean the zone rather than the literal winter offset, so this page resolves AKST to America/Anchorage and AWST to Australia/Perth and applies whichever offset is genuinely in force on the day.
Alaska Time covers Anchorage, Juneau and Fairbanks. Australian Western Time covers Perth and Western Australia, which stopped moving its clocks in 2009. The identifiers behind them are America/Anchorage and Australia/Perth, which is what any calendar or scheduling system should be storing rather than a fixed number of hours.
Questions
- What is AKST in AWST?
- AKST is 16 hours behind AWST. 9:00 am AKST is 1:00 am the next day AWST.
- How many hours ahead is AWST of AKST?
- AWST is 16 hours ahead of AKST. That varies across the year, between 16 hours and 17 hours.
- What time is it in Australian Western right now?
- 8:06 am AWST on Friday, September 25, 2026.
- When can Alaska and Australian Western meet during working hours?
- There is no shared working hour. The closest fit is 3:00 pm AKST, which is 7:00 am AWST.
- Does this account for daylight saving?
- Yes. Every reading is computed from the IANA database for the actual date, so AKDT and AWST are the abbreviations genuinely in force today rather than a fixed assumption.
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