MSK to AKST: MSK is 11 hours ahead of AKST
Moscow Time is 11 hours ahead of Alaska Time right now. It is 9:18 am MSK in Moscow and 10:18 pm AKDT in Alaska, which is already the previous day there.
Convert a specific time from MSK to AKST
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 MSK and AKST?
Alaska Time is 11 hours behind Moscow Time. To go from MSK to AKST you subtract 11 hours. That gap is not fixed. Across 2026 the distance between these two zones takes 2 different values, from 11 hours to 12 hours, because Alaska moves its clocks and Moscow does not. This page recomputes it rather than assuming.
MSK to AKST conversion table
Every hour of Friday, September 25, 2026 in Moscow, with the matching reading in Alaska. 11 of the 24 hours land on a different calendar date in Alaska, which is the part people get wrong when they schedule across this pair.
| MSK | MSK 24h | AKST | AKST 24h | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12:00 am | 00:00 | 1:00 pm | 13:00 | the previous day |
| 1:00 am | 01:00 | 2:00 pm | 14:00 | the previous day |
| 2:00 am | 02:00 | 3:00 pm | 15:00 | the previous day |
| 3:00 am | 03:00 | 4:00 pm | 16:00 | the previous day |
| 4:00 am | 04:00 | 5:00 pm | 17:00 | the previous day |
| 5:00 am | 05:00 | 6:00 pm | 18:00 | the previous day |
| 6:00 am | 06:00 | 7:00 pm | 19:00 | the previous day |
| 7:00 am | 07:00 | 8:00 pm | 20:00 | the previous day |
| 8:00 am | 08:00 | 9:00 pm | 21:00 | the previous day |
| 9:00 am | 09:00 | 10:00 pm | 22:00 | the previous day |
| 10:00 am | 10:00 | 11:00 pm | 23:00 | the previous day |
| 11:00 am | 11:00 | 12:00 am | 00:00 | same day |
| 12:00 pm | 12:00 | 1:00 am | 01:00 | same day |
| 1:00 pm | 13:00 | 2:00 am | 02:00 | same day |
| 2:00 pm | 14:00 | 3:00 am | 03:00 | same day |
| 3:00 pm | 15:00 | 4:00 am | 04:00 | same day |
| 4:00 pm | 16:00 | 5:00 am | 05:00 | same day |
| 5:00 pm | 17:00 | 6:00 am | 06:00 | same day |
| 6:00 pm | 18:00 | 7:00 am | 07:00 | same day |
| 7:00 pm | 19:00 | 8:00 am | 08:00 | same day |
| 8:00 pm | 20:00 | 9:00 am | 09:00 | same day |
| 9:00 pm | 21:00 | 10:00 am | 10:00 | same day |
| 10:00 pm | 22:00 | 11:00 am | 11:00 | same day |
| 11:00 pm | 23:00 | 12:00 pm | 12:00 | same day |
What are the best hours to schedule a call between MSK and AKST?
No hour of the standard 9:00 am to 5:00 pm working day falls inside working hours on both sides. Moscow and Alaska are 11 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.
| MSK | AKST | Working hours | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6:00 pm | 7:00 am | neither side | evening in Moscow, early morning in Alaska |
| 7:00 pm | 8:00 am | neither side | evening in Moscow, mid morning in Alaska |
Does daylight saving change MSK to AKST?
Moscow Time does not move its clocks at all, so its UTC+3 offset holds every day of the year.
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.
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 11 hours and for the rest it is 12 hours. The table above is built for today, not for an average day.
Is MSK ahead of or behind AKST?
MSK is ahead of AKST by 11 hours: when it is 12:00 pm in Moscow, it is 1:00 am in Alaska. 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 "msk to akst" they nearly always mean the zone rather than the literal winter offset, so this page resolves MSK to Europe/Moscow and AKST to America/Anchorage and applies whichever offset is genuinely in force on the day.
Moscow Time covers Moscow and western Russia, fixed since 2014. Alaska Time covers Anchorage, Juneau and Fairbanks. The identifiers behind them are Europe/Moscow and America/Anchorage, which is what any calendar or scheduling system should be storing rather than a fixed number of hours.
Questions
- What is MSK in AKST?
- MSK is 11 hours ahead of AKST. 9:00 am MSK is 10:00 pm the previous day AKST.
- How many hours ahead is AKST of MSK?
- AKST is 11 hours behind MSK. That varies across the year, between 11 hours and 12 hours.
- What time is it in Alaska right now?
- 10:18 pm AKDT on Thursday, September 24, 2026.
- When can Moscow and Alaska meet during working hours?
- There is no shared working hour. The closest fit is 6:00 pm MSK, which is 7:00 am AKST.
- Does this account for daylight saving?
- Yes. Every reading is computed from the IANA database for the actual date, so MSK and AKDT are the abbreviations genuinely in force today rather than a fixed assumption.
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