AKST to NZST: AKST is 20 hours behind NZST
Alaska Time is 20 hours behind New Zealand Time right now. It is 5:05 pm AKDT in Alaska and 1:05 pm NZST in New Zealand, which is already the next day there.
Convert a specific time from AKST to NZST
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 NZST?
New Zealand Time is 20 hours ahead of Alaska Time. To go from AKST to NZST you add 20 hours. That gap is not fixed. Across 2026 the distance between these two zones takes 3 different values, from 20 hours to 22 hours, because the two sides change their clocks on different dates. This page recomputes it rather than assuming.
AKST to NZST conversion table
Every hour of Thursday, September 24, 2026 in Alaska, with the matching reading in New Zealand. 20 of the 24 hours land on a different calendar date in New Zealand, which is the part people get wrong when they schedule across this pair.
| AKST | AKST 24h | NZST | NZST 24h | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12:00 am | 00:00 | 8:00 pm | 20:00 | same day |
| 1:00 am | 01:00 | 9:00 pm | 21:00 | same day |
| 2:00 am | 02:00 | 10:00 pm | 22:00 | same day |
| 3:00 am | 03:00 | 11:00 pm | 23:00 | same day |
| 4:00 am | 04:00 | 12:00 am | 00:00 | the next day |
| 5:00 am | 05:00 | 1:00 am | 01:00 | the next day |
| 6:00 am | 06:00 | 2:00 am | 02:00 | the next day |
| 7:00 am | 07:00 | 3:00 am | 03:00 | the next day |
| 8:00 am | 08:00 | 4:00 am | 04:00 | the next day |
| 9:00 am | 09:00 | 5:00 am | 05:00 | the next day |
| 10:00 am | 10:00 | 6:00 am | 06:00 | the next day |
| 11:00 am | 11:00 | 7:00 am | 07:00 | the next day |
| 12:00 pm | 12:00 | 8:00 am | 08:00 | the next day |
| 1:00 pm | 13:00 | 9:00 am | 09:00 | the next day |
| 2:00 pm | 14:00 | 10:00 am | 10:00 | the next day |
| 3:00 pm | 15:00 | 11:00 am | 11:00 | the next day |
| 4:00 pm | 16:00 | 12:00 pm | 12:00 | the next day |
| 5:00 pm | 17:00 | 1:00 pm | 13:00 | the next day |
| 6:00 pm | 18:00 | 2:00 pm | 14:00 | the next day |
| 7:00 pm | 19:00 | 3:00 pm | 15:00 | the next day |
| 8:00 pm | 20:00 | 4:00 pm | 16:00 | the next day |
| 9:00 pm | 21:00 | 5:00 pm | 17:00 | the next day |
| 10:00 pm | 22:00 | 6:00 pm | 18:00 | the next day |
| 11:00 pm | 23:00 | 7:00 pm | 19:00 | the next day |
What are the best hours to schedule a call between AKST and NZST?
No hour of the standard 9:00 am to 5:00 pm working day falls inside working hours on both sides. Alaska and New Zealand are 20 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 | NZST | Working hours | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1:00 pm | 9:00 am the next day | both sides | afternoon in Alaska, mid morning in New Zealand |
| 2:00 pm | 10:00 am the next day | both sides | afternoon in Alaska, mid morning in New Zealand |
| 3:00 pm | 11:00 am the next day | both sides | afternoon in Alaska, mid morning in New Zealand |
Does daylight saving change AKST to NZST?
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.
New Zealand Time is currently on NZST and changes next on Sunday, September 27, 2026, when the clock jumps forward from 1:59 am to 3:00 am and the offset moves from UTC+12 to UTC+13.
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 NZST?
AKST is behind NZST by 20 hours: when it is 12:00 pm in Alaska, it is 8:00 am the next day in New Zealand. 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 nzst" they nearly always mean the zone rather than the literal winter offset, so this page resolves AKST to America/Anchorage and NZST to Pacific/Auckland and applies whichever offset is genuinely in force on the day.
Alaska Time covers Anchorage, Juneau and Fairbanks. New Zealand Time covers Auckland and Wellington, usually the first major clocks into a new day. The identifiers behind them are America/Anchorage and Pacific/Auckland, which is what any calendar or scheduling system should be storing rather than a fixed number of hours.
Questions
- What is AKST in NZST?
- AKST is 20 hours behind NZST. 9:00 am AKST is 5:00 am the next day NZST.
- How many hours ahead is NZST of AKST?
- NZST is 20 hours ahead of AKST. That varies across the year, between 20 hours and 22 hours.
- What time is it in New Zealand right now?
- 1:05 pm NZST on Friday, September 25, 2026.
- When can Alaska and New Zealand meet during working hours?
- There is no shared working hour. The closest fit is 1:00 pm AKST, which is 9:00 am NZST.
- Does this account for daylight saving?
- Yes. Every reading is computed from the IANA database for the actual date, so AKDT and NZST are the abbreviations genuinely in force today rather than a fixed assumption.
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