PST to AKST: PST is 1 hour ahead of AKST
Pacific Time is 1 hour ahead of Alaska Time, on every day of the year. It is 11:19 pm PDT in Pacific and 10:19 pm AKDT in Alaska.
Convert a specific time from PST 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 PST and AKST?
Alaska Time is 1 hour behind Pacific Time. To go from PST to AKST you subtract 1 hour. 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.
PST to AKST conversion table
Every hour of Thursday, September 24, 2026 in Pacific, with the matching reading in Alaska. 1 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.
| PST | PST 24h | AKST | AKST 24h | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12:00 am | 00:00 | 11:00 pm | 23:00 | the previous day |
| 1:00 am | 01:00 | 12:00 am | 00:00 | same day |
| 2:00 am | 02:00 | 1:00 am | 01:00 | same day |
| 3:00 am | 03:00 | 2:00 am | 02:00 | same day |
| 4:00 am | 04:00 | 3:00 am | 03:00 | same day |
| 5:00 am | 05:00 | 4:00 am | 04:00 | same day |
| 6:00 am | 06:00 | 5:00 am | 05:00 | same day |
| 7:00 am | 07:00 | 6:00 am | 06:00 | same day |
| 8:00 am | 08:00 | 7:00 am | 07:00 | same day |
| 9:00 am | 09:00 | 8:00 am | 08:00 | same day |
| 10:00 am | 10:00 | 9:00 am | 09:00 | same day |
| 11:00 am | 11:00 | 10:00 am | 10:00 | same day |
| 12:00 pm | 12:00 | 11:00 am | 11:00 | same day |
| 1:00 pm | 13:00 | 12:00 pm | 12:00 | same day |
| 2:00 pm | 14:00 | 1:00 pm | 13:00 | same day |
| 3:00 pm | 15:00 | 2:00 pm | 14:00 | same day |
| 4:00 pm | 16:00 | 3:00 pm | 15:00 | same day |
| 5:00 pm | 17:00 | 4:00 pm | 16:00 | same day |
| 6:00 pm | 18:00 | 5:00 pm | 17:00 | same day |
| 7:00 pm | 19:00 | 6:00 pm | 18:00 | same day |
| 8:00 pm | 20:00 | 7:00 pm | 19:00 | same day |
| 9:00 pm | 21:00 | 8:00 pm | 20:00 | same day |
| 10:00 pm | 22:00 | 9:00 pm | 21:00 | same day |
| 11:00 pm | 23:00 | 10:00 pm | 22:00 | same day |
What are the best hours to schedule a call between PST and AKST?
7 hours of the standard 9:00 am to 5:00 pm working day line up in both zones, from 10:00 am PST to 5:00 pm PST. In Alaska that window reads 9:00 am to 4:00 pm. Outside it, one side is either not yet at their desk or already gone.
| PST | AKST | Working hours | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10:00 am | 9:00 am | both sides | mid morning in Pacific, mid morning in Alaska |
| 11:00 am | 10:00 am | both sides | mid morning in Pacific, mid morning in Alaska |
| 12:00 pm | 11:00 am | both sides | noon in Pacific, mid morning in Alaska |
| 1:00 pm | 12:00 pm | both sides | afternoon in Pacific, noon in Alaska |
| 2:00 pm | 1:00 pm | both sides | afternoon in Pacific, afternoon in Alaska |
| 3:00 pm | 2:00 pm | both sides | afternoon in Pacific, afternoon in Alaska |
| 4:00 pm | 3:00 pm | both sides | afternoon in Pacific, afternoon in Alaska |
Does daylight saving change PST to AKST?
Pacific Time is currently on PDT 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-7 to UTC-8.
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.
Is PST ahead of or behind AKST?
PST is ahead of AKST by 1 hour: when it is 12:00 pm in Pacific, it is 11:00 am in Alaska. One wrinkle worth knowing: PST and PDT are two names for the same zone, not two zones. Pacific Time reads PST in winter and PDT in summer. When somebody types "pst to akst" they nearly always mean the zone rather than the literal winter offset, so this page resolves PST to America/Los_Angeles and AKST to America/Anchorage and applies whichever offset is genuinely in force on the day.
Pacific Time covers Los Angeles, San Francisco, Seattle and Vancouver. Alaska Time covers Anchorage, Juneau and Fairbanks. The identifiers behind them are America/Los_Angeles and America/Anchorage, which is what any calendar or scheduling system should be storing rather than a fixed number of hours.
Questions
- What is PST in AKST?
- PST is 1 hour ahead of AKST. 9:00 am PST is 8:00 am AKST.
- How many hours ahead is AKST of PST?
- AKST is 1 hour behind PST.
- What time is it in Alaska right now?
- 10:19 pm AKDT on Thursday, September 24, 2026.
- When can Pacific and Alaska meet during working hours?
- Between 10:00 am and 5:00 pm PST, which is 9:00 am to 4:00 pm AKST.
- Does this account for daylight saving?
- Yes. Every reading is computed from the IANA database for the actual date, so PDT and AKDT are the abbreviations genuinely in force today rather than a fixed assumption.
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