AKST to EST: AKST is 4 hours behind EST
Alaska Time is 4 hours behind Eastern Time, on every day of the year. It is 7:21 pm AKDT in Alaska and 11:21 pm EDT in Eastern.
Convert a specific time from AKST to EST
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 EST?
Eastern Time is 4 hours ahead of Alaska Time. To go from AKST to EST you add 4 hours. That gap holds on all 365 days of 2026: both zones move their clocks, but on the same dates and in the same direction, so the distance between them never changes.
AKST to EST conversion table
Every hour of Thursday, September 24, 2026 in Alaska, with the matching reading in Eastern. 4 of the 24 hours land on a different calendar date in Eastern, which is the part people get wrong when they schedule across this pair.
| AKST | AKST 24h | EST | EST 24h | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12:00 am | 00:00 | 4:00 am | 04:00 | same day |
| 1:00 am | 01:00 | 5:00 am | 05:00 | same day |
| 2:00 am | 02:00 | 6:00 am | 06:00 | same day |
| 3:00 am | 03:00 | 7:00 am | 07:00 | same day |
| 4:00 am | 04:00 | 8:00 am | 08:00 | same day |
| 5:00 am | 05:00 | 9:00 am | 09:00 | same day |
| 6:00 am | 06:00 | 10:00 am | 10:00 | same day |
| 7:00 am | 07:00 | 11:00 am | 11:00 | same day |
| 8:00 am | 08:00 | 12:00 pm | 12:00 | same day |
| 9:00 am | 09:00 | 1:00 pm | 13:00 | same day |
| 10:00 am | 10:00 | 2:00 pm | 14:00 | same day |
| 11:00 am | 11:00 | 3:00 pm | 15:00 | same day |
| 12:00 pm | 12:00 | 4:00 pm | 16:00 | same day |
| 1:00 pm | 13:00 | 5:00 pm | 17:00 | same day |
| 2:00 pm | 14:00 | 6:00 pm | 18:00 | same day |
| 3:00 pm | 15:00 | 7:00 pm | 19:00 | same day |
| 4:00 pm | 16:00 | 8:00 pm | 20:00 | same day |
| 5:00 pm | 17:00 | 9:00 pm | 21:00 | same day |
| 6:00 pm | 18:00 | 10:00 pm | 22:00 | same day |
| 7:00 pm | 19:00 | 11:00 pm | 23:00 | same day |
| 8:00 pm | 20:00 | 12:00 am | 00:00 | the next day |
| 9:00 pm | 21:00 | 1:00 am | 01:00 | the next day |
| 10:00 pm | 22:00 | 2:00 am | 02:00 | the next day |
| 11:00 pm | 23:00 | 3:00 am | 03:00 | the next day |
What are the best hours to schedule a call between AKST and EST?
4 hours of the standard 9:00 am to 5:00 pm working day line up in both zones, from 9:00 am AKST to 1:00 pm AKST. In Eastern that window reads 1:00 pm to 5:00 pm. Outside it, one side is either not yet at their desk or already gone.
| AKST | EST | Working hours | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9:00 am | 1:00 pm | both sides | mid morning in Alaska, afternoon in Eastern |
| 10:00 am | 2:00 pm | both sides | mid morning in Alaska, afternoon in Eastern |
| 11:00 am | 3:00 pm | both sides | mid morning in Alaska, afternoon in Eastern |
| 12:00 pm | 4:00 pm | both sides | noon in Alaska, afternoon in Eastern |
Does daylight saving change AKST to EST?
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.
Eastern Time is currently on EDT 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-4 to UTC-5.
Is AKST ahead of or behind EST?
AKST is behind EST by 4 hours: when it is 12:00 pm in Alaska, it is 4:00 pm in 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 est" they nearly always mean the zone rather than the literal winter offset, so this page resolves AKST to America/Anchorage and EST to America/New_York and applies whichever offset is genuinely in force on the day.
Alaska Time covers Anchorage, Juneau and Fairbanks. Eastern Time covers New York, Toronto, Atlanta and Miami. The identifiers behind them are America/Anchorage and America/New_York, which is what any calendar or scheduling system should be storing rather than a fixed number of hours.
Questions
- What is AKST in EST?
- AKST is 4 hours behind EST. 9:00 am AKST is 1:00 pm EST.
- How many hours ahead is EST of AKST?
- EST is 4 hours ahead of AKST.
- What time is it in Eastern right now?
- 11:21 pm EDT on Thursday, September 24, 2026.
- When can Alaska and Eastern meet during working hours?
- Between 9:00 am and 1:00 pm AKST, which is 1:00 pm to 5:00 pm EST.
- Does this account for daylight saving?
- Yes. Every reading is computed from the IANA database for the actual date, so AKDT and EDT are the abbreviations genuinely in force today rather than a fixed assumption.
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