AKST to HST: AKST is 2 hours ahead of HST
Alaska Time is 2 hours ahead of Hawaii Standard Time right now. It is 2:09 am AKDT in Alaska and 12:09 am HST in Hawaii.
Convert a specific time from AKST to HST
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 HST?
Hawaii Standard Time is 2 hours behind Alaska Time. To go from AKST to HST you subtract 2 hours. That gap is not fixed. Across 2026 the distance between these two zones takes 2 different values, from 1 hour to 2 hours, because Alaska moves its clocks and Hawaii does not. This page recomputes it rather than assuming.
AKST to HST conversion table
Every hour of Friday, September 25, 2026 in Alaska, with the matching reading in Hawaii. 2 of the 24 hours land on a different calendar date in Hawaii, which is the part people get wrong when they schedule across this pair.
| AKST | AKST 24h | HST | HST 24h | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12:00 am | 00:00 | 10:00 pm | 22:00 | the previous day |
| 1:00 am | 01:00 | 11:00 pm | 23:00 | the previous day |
| 2:00 am | 02:00 | 12:00 am | 00:00 | same day |
| 3:00 am | 03:00 | 1:00 am | 01:00 | same day |
| 4:00 am | 04:00 | 2:00 am | 02:00 | same day |
| 5:00 am | 05:00 | 3:00 am | 03:00 | same day |
| 6:00 am | 06:00 | 4:00 am | 04:00 | same day |
| 7:00 am | 07:00 | 5:00 am | 05:00 | same day |
| 8:00 am | 08:00 | 6:00 am | 06:00 | same day |
| 9:00 am | 09:00 | 7:00 am | 07:00 | same day |
| 10:00 am | 10:00 | 8:00 am | 08:00 | same day |
| 11:00 am | 11:00 | 9:00 am | 09:00 | same day |
| 12:00 pm | 12:00 | 10:00 am | 10:00 | same day |
| 1:00 pm | 13:00 | 11:00 am | 11:00 | same day |
| 2:00 pm | 14:00 | 12:00 pm | 12:00 | same day |
| 3:00 pm | 15:00 | 1:00 pm | 13:00 | same day |
| 4:00 pm | 16:00 | 2:00 pm | 14:00 | same day |
| 5:00 pm | 17:00 | 3:00 pm | 15:00 | same day |
| 6:00 pm | 18:00 | 4:00 pm | 16:00 | same day |
| 7:00 pm | 19:00 | 5:00 pm | 17:00 | same day |
| 8:00 pm | 20:00 | 6:00 pm | 18:00 | same day |
| 9:00 pm | 21:00 | 7:00 pm | 19:00 | same day |
| 10:00 pm | 22:00 | 8:00 pm | 20:00 | same day |
| 11:00 pm | 23:00 | 9:00 pm | 21:00 | same day |
What are the best hours to schedule a call between AKST and HST?
6 hours of the standard 9:00 am to 5:00 pm working day line up in both zones, from 11:00 am AKST to 5:00 pm AKST. In Hawaii that window reads 9:00 am to 3:00 pm. Outside it, one side is either not yet at their desk or already gone.
| AKST | HST | Working hours | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
| 11:00 am | 9:00 am | both sides | mid morning in Alaska, mid morning in Hawaii |
| 12:00 pm | 10:00 am | both sides | noon in Alaska, mid morning in Hawaii |
| 1:00 pm | 11:00 am | both sides | afternoon in Alaska, mid morning in Hawaii |
| 2:00 pm | 12:00 pm | both sides | afternoon in Alaska, noon in Hawaii |
| 3:00 pm | 1:00 pm | both sides | afternoon in Alaska, afternoon in Hawaii |
| 4:00 pm | 2:00 pm | both sides | afternoon in Alaska, afternoon in Hawaii |
Does daylight saving change AKST to HST?
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.
Hawaii Standard Time does not move its clocks at all, so its UTC-10 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 1 hour and for the rest it is 2 hours. The table above is built for today, not for an average day.
Is AKST ahead of or behind HST?
AKST is ahead of HST by 2 hours: when it is 12:00 pm in Alaska, it is 10:00 am in Hawaii. 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 hst" they nearly always mean the zone rather than the literal winter offset, so this page resolves AKST to America/Anchorage and HST to Pacific/Honolulu and applies whichever offset is genuinely in force on the day.
Alaska Time covers Anchorage, Juneau and Fairbanks. Hawaii Standard Time covers Hawaii, which has never moved its clocks. The identifiers behind them are America/Anchorage and Pacific/Honolulu, which is what any calendar or scheduling system should be storing rather than a fixed number of hours.
Questions
- What is AKST in HST?
- AKST is 2 hours ahead of HST. 9:00 am AKST is 7:00 am HST.
- How many hours ahead is HST of AKST?
- HST is 2 hours behind AKST. That varies across the year, between 1 hour and 2 hours.
- What time is it in Hawaii right now?
- 12:09 am HST on Friday, September 25, 2026.
- When can Alaska and Hawaii meet during working hours?
- Between 11:00 am and 5:00 pm AKST, which is 9:00 am to 3:00 pm HST.
- Does this account for daylight saving?
- Yes. Every reading is computed from the IANA database for the actual date, so AKDT and HST are the abbreviations genuinely in force today rather than a fixed assumption.
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