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